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Italian fashion pioneer Nino Cerruti dies at 91

January 16, 2022
Henry Club

written by Sharon Braithwaite, CNN

Italian fashion designer And entrepreneur Nino Cerutti died Saturday at the age of 91, Italian family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerutti said in a statement.
He died in the hospital of Vercelli, Italy, where he was hospitalized for a hip operation, CNN affiliates Sky TG24 Reported on Saturday.
Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti The company said, “To the family, friends, associates and employees of Lanificio Cerruti and the whole world of Italian fashion, today is a very sad day, as Signor Nino has passed away.” statement posted on facebook,

“We have lost a genius, an exceptional designer, a man ahead of his time and a wonderful mentor to whom many people are immensely indebted,” the statement said.

“Through his commitment and dedication to his work, which was his mission to him, he will become an everlasting example of a life lived in the relentless pursuit of style and harmony,” said Business.

Models display creations by Italian designer Nino Cerruti for his show Menswear Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 on January 23, 2009 in Paris, France. Credit: Frederick Nebinger-Thierry Orban/Abaca Press/Alamy Stock Photo

Born on September 25, 1930, in Biella, Italy, to a family of textile industrialists, Cerutti inherited the company of the family at the age of 20 after the death of his father. Biography Published on Lanificio Cerruti’s website.

In 1967, he opened the first Cerruti 1881 boutique at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. In the mid-1960s, Cerruti “collaborated with newly emerging names in Italian fashion, working as ‘rookies’ designers of the caliber of Giorgio Armani,” it says, in the 1970s, he produced the first deconstructed jacket. Made.

Cerruti was also a guru Giorgio Armani and Véronique Nichanian, and in 1994, he was appointed the official designer of the Formula 1 team Ferrari.

Italy’s Deputy Minister of Economic Development Gilberto Picchetto also offered his condolences in a statement sent to CNN on Sunday.

“I am deeply saddened by the death of manager and stylist Nino Cerruti: with him, a giant of Italian entrepreneurship and an important piece of Biella’s history, has passed away,” said Picchetto. “I will always remember him with affection and respect, for his intuition, ability and foresight with which he made Italian fashion great, exporting our Made in Italy to the world.”

A model in the fall-winter 1985/86 collection, March 1985, Nico Cerutti's show in France.

A model in the fall-winter 1985/86 collection, March 1985, Nico Cerutti’s show in France. Credit: Danielle Simon/Gamma-Rafo/Getty Images

Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode in Paris pays tribute to Cerruti Statement Published on Sunday, it said, “Nino Cerutti was one of the most influential designers of ready-to-wear for men in the 20th century. Innovator, industrialist and a legendary designer, he created high-end men’s clothing by inventing the first deconstructed jacket. revolutionized the fashion of the 1970s.

“Nino Cerruti succeeds with both his eponymous home and the family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerutti. Nino Cerutti defined the concept of ‘style’ as ‘a perfect blend of culture and art,’ a term he called ‘elegance. Liked for, which he had ‘a terrible old taste of.'”

Ralph Toledano, president of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, said, “Nino Cerruti was undoubtedly a creative genius, a passionate man with an extraordinary eye, but also a great entrepreneur. Nino Cerruti introduced the notion of “casual chic”. of “in fashion and men’s clothing, and was himself a man of rare elegance.

“Today we say goodbye to a great man who was as much Milan as Paris,” said Toledano.

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