The press enjoyed Moschino and often labelled him "Mr. Funny Court Jester" or “Ragazzo" or “the Bad Boy of fashion”.
Franco Moschino was born in 1950 in Abbiategrasso, a small industrial town, 14 miles from Milan. He took refuge from provincial boredom by drawing, encouraged by his mother. His father, who later died when Franco was 4 years old, ran an iron foundry and Franco would arrange the heavy deposits of dust on the floor into patterns.