Renato Balestra refused to study for an engineering degree.
The EFREI ( École d'ingénieur généraliste en informatique et technologies du numérique ) ( Engineering School of Information and Digital Technologies ) is a French private engineering school located in Villejuif , Île-de-France , at the south of Paris . Renato Balestra . Born in Trieste , Renato Balestra comes from a family of architects and engineers and after a childhood steeped in the Mid-European cultural environment of the area , he too began studying for a degree in civil engineering . It was not until the last year of his engineering studies , however , that he became involved in fashion , creating a design in response to a bet made among friends .