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Nino Cerruti is dead: Italian fashion designer died at the age of 91

2022-01-16T10:53:37.078Z


From Julia Roberts to Joschka Fischer – Nino Cerruti has dressed many stars and celebrities. Giorgio Armani's teacher has died at the age of 91.


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A life of good style: Nino Cerruti in 1985

Photo: RALPH GATTI / AFP

The well-known Italian fashion designer Nino Cerruti is dead. He died at the age of 91 in a hospital in the Piedmont region, the AFP news agency learned from industry circles on Saturday.

Italian media had previously reported on Cerruti's death.

According to the Corriere della Sera, the designer had been hospitalized for hip surgery.

Cerruti was considered a pioneer of ready-to-wear fashion for men in the 20th century. "A giant among Italian entrepreneurs is leaving us," said Deputy Minister for Economic Development Gilberto Pichetto on the designer's death.

Cerruti dropped out of philosophy at the age of 20 to take over his family's textile factory after his father's death. In the 1960s he met Giorgio Armani and hired him as a designer. The two parted ways in 1975 when Armani founded his own company. On his Instagram page, Armani bid farewell to his former teacher "with great sadness": "Although we have lost touch over the years, I have always considered him one of the people who had a real and positive impact on my life." , wrote Armani.

Cerruti, who used to dress many Hollywood stars and celebrities such as Green Party politician Joschka Fischer, was also the official designer of the Ferrari team in Formula 1. Cerruti revealed his credo to SPIEGEL in 2000: »Clothing has to underline a person's personality.

That's the most important.

Nothing is more ridiculous than a man who lets his clothes be dictated to him or is killed by them.«

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Source: spiegel

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