ROME (AFP) – Pioneering Italian clothier Nino Cerruti has died on the age of 91, it was on reported on Saturday (Jan 15).
Cerruti, who dressed many a Hollywood star in his heyday, launched “informal stylish” into males’s style when he created the primary deconstructed jacket within the Seventies.
He died on the Vercelli hospital within the northwest area of Piedmont, the place he had been admitted for a hip operation, the Italian each day Corriere della Sera reported on its web site.
Cerruti was one of many main figures in males’s ready-to-wear style within the twentieth century, with a mode that was directly elegant and relaxed.
“An enormous amongst Italian entrepreneurs has left us,” mentioned Mr Gilberto Pichetto, deputy minister for financial growth.
Tall and slim, he at all times insisted he be the primary to strive on his creations, lots of which have been saved on the textile manufacturing facility his grandfather based within the northern city of Biella in 1881.
“I’ve at all times dressed the identical individual, myself,” he as soon as mentioned.
Born in 1930 in Biella, Cerruti dreamt of changing into a journalist.
However after his father died when he was 20, he was pressured to surrender his philosophy research to take over the household textile manufacturing facility.
Within the Sixties, he met Giorgio Armani and employed him as a creator of males’s style.
The duo made a profound mark on the world of style, earlier than Armani branched out on his personal together with his personal style home in 1975.
Cerruti opened his first store in Paris in 1967, launching his luxurious model into world fame.
“Garments solely exist from the second somebody places them on. I would love these garments to proceed to dwell, to absorb life,” he mentioned.
Whereas French college students protested in 1968, he revolutionised style by asking female and male fashions to stroll down the catwalk in the identical garments.
“Trousers have given ladies freedom,” mentioned the designer, who within the Seventies created his first line of girls’s clothes.
The person nicknamed the “thinker of clothes” dressed American actors Richard Gere and Robert Redford in addition to French star Jean-Paul Belmondo.
He additionally made cameo appearances in Hollywood movies Cannes Man (1996) and Holy Man (1998).
