Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at age 83, his company says

ROME — Italian dressmaker Roberto Cavalli, recognized for a flamboyant, glamorous type and textile improvements, has died at age 83, his firm introduced Friday.

“Pricey Roberto, you is probably not bodily right here with us anymore however I do know I’ll really feel your spirit with me at all times,” Fausto Puglisi, inventive director at Roberto Cavalli since October 2020, wrote in an Instagram submit.

“Relaxation in peace, you’ll be missed and you’re liked by so many who your identify will proceed on, a beacon of inspiration for others, and particularly for me,” Puglisi added.

Born in Florence on Nov. 15, 1940, from a household of artists, Cavalli was orphaned of his father at simply 4 years previous, as he was killed in a Nazi roundup referred to as the Cavriglia bloodbath in 1944.

Cavalli turned famend within the early Nineteen Seventies for his animal prints and an extreme, attractive type that remained his trademark all through his lengthy profession.

“It’s with deep remorse and an awesome unhappiness the Roberto Cavalli Maison participates within the passing of its founder Roberto Cavalli,” his firm mentioned in a press release. “From humble beginnings in Florence, Roberto succeeded in turning into a globally acknowledged identify liked and revered by all. (His) legacy will reside on by way of his creativity, his love of nature and by way of his household who he cherished.”

After founding his personal vogue home within the early Nineteen Seventies, Cavalli rapidly turned an iconic model, liked by high celebrities like Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyoncé.

Cavalli patented a brand new printing methodology for leather-based and debuted the patchwork denim that was certainly one of his emblems in Florence’s Palazzo Pitti in 1972. He revolutionized denims, making a sandblasting method to provide denim a distressed look, and including Lycra to denims to make them sexier, stretchy.

Cavalli took frequent inspiration from the pure world, that includes animal prints and fish-scale sequins. The Cavalli girl ranged from hippie to slick rocker, in diaphanous robes that caught the air, seductive beaded attire or attractive skinny fits.

As his vogue home recalled on Friday, Cavalli’s defined as soon as his “animalier” inspiration with a well-liked quote: “I copy the gown of an animal as a result of I really like to repeat God. I believe God is essentially the most incredible designer.”

He stepped again from designing a couple of decade in the past, after ceding 90% of the corporate to the Clessidra non-public fairness group. The corporate is now managed by Auriel Funding SA.

“Don’t name me a designer. My expertise is quite discovering what makes a material, a gown, a lady particular, pondering at all times of vogue as whether it is dream of ready-to-wear, one thing able to be worn,″ he wrote in his autobiography, “Simply Me,” printed in 2013.

He informed The Related Press in an interview that the girl he dressed was “a lady who believes so much in herself. A girl who can present she is robust however on the identical time delicate and romantic.”

Cavalli is survived by mannequin Sandra Nilsson, who has been his companion since 2014, and 6 youngsters. He turned the daddy of his sixth baby a the age of 82.