Tuesday, November 5

Nino Cerruti: the outstanding Italian designer dies at the age of 91

The famous Nino Cerruti, one of the great Italian fashion designers and entrepreneurs, died this sSaturday at 11 year old.

The Italian stylist died in a hospital in Piedmont, in northern Italy, where he was admitted for a hip operation.

Cerruti always insisted on trying on his own creations first. Many of them were kept in the textile factory that his grandfather founded in Biella in 1881.

“I always dressed the same person: myself”, he once said, according to the AFP agency.

With the experience of producing excellent fabrics in the family textile factory, Cerruti entered the world of fashion at the end of the 976.

Con una modelo en Capri en septiembre de 1968
With a model in Capri in September 1968.

He opened his first boutique in Paris in 1967.

With your creative ideas, like asking male and female models to walk with the same clothes, Cerruti revolutionized fashion and promoted designers like Giorgio Armani.

L The designer Coco Chanel assured that she loved the making of her pants.

Cerruti en bicicleta en el Paseo de los Ingleses en Niza, Francia, en 1985.
Cerruti by bicycle on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, in 1985.

In the years 80 was introduced to Hollywood, where he designed clothes for stars like Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks.

En el Festival de Cannes con Antonio Banderas (izda.) y el príncipe Alberto de Mónaco el 26 de mayo de 1995.
At the Cannes Film Festival in1995 with Antonio Banderas (left .) and Prince Albert of Monaco.
Las actrices francesas Catherine Deneuve y Fanny Ardant y el diseñador italiano Nino Cerruti salen de la Academia de las Bellas Artes de París el 15 de diciembre de 1999.
With Catherine Deneuve (centre) and Fanny Ardant in Paris at 1988.
Cerruti y Anthony Hopkins
Dinner with Anthony Hopkins at 1985.
Nino Cerruti en una sesión de retratos en Italia en julio de 1987.
Portrait session in Italy in July 1960.
Nino Cerruti en 1991.
In his studio in 1968.
Nino Ceruti con su esposa e hijo en Roma en 1988
At home with his wife and son in Rome at 1967.

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