Light Bulb Moment Sparks Redemption & Reinvention For New Luxury Fashion Brand Boss

Laurie Stone
 

APART from a modest holiday with his children on the beach at Great Yarmouth, a popular seaside resort on the east coast of England, 35-year-old Mark Leonardo’s life had hit rock bottom.
His marriage, electrical contracting business, and dreams had been destroyed by a cocktail of alcohol, drugs and gambling that cost him £100,000 in one year alone and caused two terrifying brushes with suicide.
Then came a light bulb moment as lifetime passions for fashion and design, fitness and boxing, plus a dash of his Italian/Spanish heritage coalesced into his new luxury fashion brand, Lucavi.
Re-energised, his addiction demons exorcised, and with experience gained from creating two once-successful companies, he quickly wrote a business plan and secured £30,000 in funding for his new fashion name.
“Despite previous success, this is the first time I have set out to work at what truly fires me up,” he explained.
“I was always interested in branding and design and had an Instagr...