Dolce and Gabbana was formed in 1982 by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana who had been working together as assistants in an atelier in Milan. Domenico Dolce was born in 1958 in Polizzi Generosa near Palermo, Sicily and Stefano Gabbana was born in 1962 in Venice, Italy. Dolce studied fashion design in Sicily and he worked at his family's clothing factory and Stefano Gabbana studied graphic design. Dolce and Gabbana opened their first boutique in Japan in 1986. Today Dolce&Gabbana are world famous with the D&G line of jeans, perfumes and colognes.