A legend of Italian fashion leaves us: the designer Roberto Cavalli died in Florence at the age of 83. He had been ill for some time. He leaves behind six children, including the youngest Giorgio, just over a year old. Next to him in the last hours, as in the last fifteen years, his partner Sandra.
Born in 1940, Cavalli was orphaned as a child: his father was killed in a Nazi raid in the square of Castel Nuovo Sabbioni (Arezzo). A fact that marked him forever. In 1970 he made his debut in Paris with the brands that still bear his name today. Art has always been in Roberto Cavalli's DNA: his grandfather was a painter of the Macchiaioli movement and his works are still exhibited in the Uffizi today. Cavalli, as a young man, also followed his artistic vocation: he studied at the State Institute of Art in Florence, specializing in the textile applications of painting. His works attracted the attention of big names in French fashion, such as Hermès and Pierre Cardin, but the big leap came only in 1970, when he presented the first collection with his man at the Salon du Prêt-à-Porter in Paris first name
Cavalli established himself with a new seductive and bold style, made of torn jeans, patchwork, leather and brocades. But his trademark was – and still remains today – animal prints: spotted, brindle, zebra. The 2000s also consecrated Roberto Cavalli as the designer most desired by celebrities: he boasted clients such as Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Drew Barrymore, up to Christina Aguilera, Victoria Beckham and Sharon Stone.
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