Herno - Luxury Quality Outerwear Made in Italy!

At Herno, it all started with a raincoat. It was from that 1948 cotton, treated with castor oil from planes abandoned by the war, that a young Giuseppe Marenzi and his wife Alessandra Diana sensed the possibility of setting up a business. The post-war period in Italy was all about experimentation and innovation which triggered Herno's focus on designing functional first jackets, followed by high-performance coats.  Superior workmanship as can only be found in Italy, but also practical and protecting against the cold and rain, the northern wind and the humidity of the lake region. In the mid-1950s there were also women’s garments, reversible, hand-woven cashmere coats. In 1968 Herno was already overseas in the east, in Japan, with boutiques in Osaka and then Tokyo, followed by the US in the early 1980s. The brand Herno was founded in Lesa which is located at the mouth of Erno river that flows shortly thereafter into Lake Maggiore.