Joseph Cicio

Joseph Cicio was born in Brooklyn into a totally disfunctional middle class Italian family with virtually no father figure and rasied by a hard working mother who for the most part functioned as a single parent. With loving aunts, uncles and cousins in countless numbers family became

the most cherished memory of Cicio's early childhood. After three years as a monastic monk

he returned to the secular world and began his retailing career at Lord and Taylor. Then moving on to Macy's where he was given the opportunity to show his creative talents in retailing and merchandising to be of such an impressive level he soon was appointed CEO and President of a number of well known international merchandising brands such as I.Magnin, Donna Karen, Mayors Jewelry and Penhaligons just to name a few.

Once he became a single parent of a cherished son he decided to enter the brand building merchandising consulting arena where he developed amazing relationships that took him as far as Buckingham Palace and HRH The Prince of Wales and many others. A professional activity he very much enjoys to this very day.

Lauren Bacall, Bill Bless, Rosemarie Bravo. Carol Channing, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Hayward

Duchin, Princes Grace, Lady "Slim" Keith, The Kissinger's, Josie Natori, and Joan Rivers, Erte' are only a very few of the relationships that came to Cicio as he journeyed his life path and are now featured in this book of memories with others through the fascinating gifts he has collected over the years that a simple glance of each will awake the joyous memory of that

most valued relationship.