[1] In late 2012 he left YSL to be head of design at Ermenegildo Zegna,[4] where he was responsible for the Italian house's couture collections until February 2016.
[2] He thus decided to embrace Milan's fashion scene and set out to learn everything there was to know about ready-to-wear apparel materials and production.
A few months later, Pilati was designing that company's entire collection, and presenting it to Europe's leading ready-to-wear names.
The fashion house Giorgio Armani hired Pilati as an assistant in its men's ready-to-wear department in 1993.
During his tenure as head designer, Pilati was responsible for creating fashion staples such as the tulip skirt, as well as extremely successful accessories such as the Muse bag,[1] and the YSL Tribute sandal.
In addition to his work at YSL, he created costumes for the production of Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, which opened in June 2011 at the Comedy Theatre in London.