“I learn with great sadness of the death of Nino Cerruti. Although over the years our contacts had thinned out, I have always considered him one of the people who have had a real and positive influence on my life. From him I learned not only the taste for sartorial softness, but also the importance of an all-round vision, as a stylist and as an entrepreneur. Signor Nino had a sharp look, a true curiosity, the ability to dare. His gentle way of being authoritative and even authoritarian will be missing “. Like this Giorgio Armani through the official Instagram profile he wanted to greet the one who launched him in the fashion world. Nino Cerruti he died at the age of 91 in the hospital of Vercelli, where he was hospitalized for hip surgery.
Born in Biella on 25 September 1930 from a family of textile industrialists, Nino Cerruti inherited the business on the death of his father at the age of 20, deciding to interrupt his studies in philosophy and journalism to follow the family tradition, immediately demonstrating a predilection for desing. In the seventies it was he who launched the first deconstructed jacket and soon his clothes became a must for various movie stars who brought his clothing to the gala evenings of the Oscars in Hollywood but also to the Cannes and Venice festivals. Nino Cerruti dressed Christian Bale, Harrison Ford, Marcello Mastroianni, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, Tom Hanks, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere and designed costumes for cult films such as ‘American Psycho’, ‘Indecent Proposal’, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ , ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Fatal Attraction’. Her pants were also Coco Chanel’s favorites.
It was also official designer of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1 and always with regard to sport, its Sportswear line, born in the Eighties, has gone down in history. Among the prominent athletes who wore his clothes, the Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark and the American tennis player Jimmy Connors should not be forgotten.
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