Carlo was born in London. His first work was Squire, launched in 1992, where Carlo fused the ideas of art, architecture and design into his work, it was the first project of it’s type to draw and encompass many different types of design aesthetics into a concept space in Mayfair which epitomised the beginnings of cool Britannia.The gallery displayed design collections within the same space as classic ‘pop art’ pieces from artists such as Allen Jones and Bridget Riley. Early collaborators, clients and admirers of Squire were Alexander Mcqueen ( who wore Squire designs to his first historic Givenchy interview), Massive Attack, Kate Moss, Helmut Lang  and most of the iconoclasts of design, music and style scenes. Nick Knight and Peter Saville  (Photographer and Art Director respectively) were initial and current collaborators.

Squire questioned the boundaries between design,fashion and art, pioneering a more open and broad spectrum of how designers were perceived to be able to work within other creative disciplines and mediums. Initially specialising in tailoring, Carlo used traditional ideas of craft together with contemporary design principles to design fashion collections. The launch focused on the creation of the idea of a modern minimal slim suit as a reaction to the more commonplace looser, bigger and longer tailoring that was then widely available.

After 5 years of the concept work at Squire, unexpectedly in 2003 Kilgour approached Carlo to become Creative & Design Director. This project offered an opportunity to define and work on creating and building every element of a new Kilgour, a different ‘type’ of creative and artistic work. Carlo set the brief to create a modern hybrid menswear brand combining the craft and heritage of Savile Row with all aspects of contemporary current design. Carlo conceived the concept of the brand, designed all product, and designed the flagship spaces as well as art directing the campaigns. The project was critically and commercially very successful with Carlo receiving many diverse plaudits and awards including British GQ’s most Stylish man and being voted Menswear designer of the year in 2005 by the British Fashion Council , the highest award achievable in this field.

In 2008 Kilgour changed ownership, Carlo promptly resigned, leaving the brand he founded as Kilgour. In 2013 Kilgour changed hands again and the new owners approached Carlo to reprise his role as Freelance Creative Director, the remit was to re position Kilgour as an International Contemporary Bespoke Brand and Tailor.

In 2009 Carlo established his own studio working with luxury brands & companies more discretely , working more behind the scenes taking on creative roles. The studio also focuses more on artistic work,  over the years Carlo’s method of working has become increasing linked to an Applied Art discipline, where craft is used as part of the creative process closely alligned to design development. His first sculpture solo show ‘Permanence 2010 - Travertine marble stone & gold’ opened on June 25th 2010  at RCM Galerie in Paris.

In October 2011 several works were made in collaboration with the American contemporary artist Matthew Brannon with Casey Kaplan Gallery New York and shown at London’s Frieze Art Fair. Carlo produced a series of abstract coat sculptures made from rubber coated cotton as part of Matthew’s work with Casey Kaplan. Matthew Brannon’s solo show then opened in New York at Casey Kaplan in October 2011 and Carlo worked on several collaborative pieces all of which have been acquired by the acclaimed Contemporary Rennie Collection at Wing Sang gallery in Vancouver. This year also saw Carlo debut in a group show at Casey Kaplan.

2013 saw several glass works made in Murano as part of a ‘floating series’, all pieces were acquired by a private collection. In 2015 a second series entitled ‘Glass forms’ was also launched, a first experiment with found and left glass in Murano

Carlo’s installation Reflective 3 opened in June 2015 at the Medici Palazzo Florence, the installation was a coloured glass and mirror work commissioned by the Pitti Company as the guest designer project 88 for menswear.

Left Glass’ Carlo’s second sculptural glass solo show was shown in Paris in January 2016 and at the newly opened applied arts gallery Piano Nobile in April 2016.

Carlo is a regular contributor and commentator to the International Design scene, and his designs are represented in the permanent  archive collections of several Design Museums around the world including The Design Museum in London and the MET in New York