Italian clothing designer - Roberto Cavalli

Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Sunny-sunny Florence. Homeland of Dante and Petrarch, Sandro Botticelli and Filippo Brunelleschi. Renaissance artists: Giotto and Masaccio. The glorious city of Florence. A city dominated by the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. It was here in the middle of the twentieth century, on November 15, 1940, that one of the most famous Italian fashion designers, Roberto Cavalli, was born. Born into a family of artists. Both his grandfather and his father were artists. His grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, was a renowned impressionist painter; his work has even been exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery.

And Roberto also follows in the footsteps of his ancestors, he enters the famous Florentine Academy of Arts. But it is not painting that will bring him fame, but fashion design, fashion.

At the age of 30, Roberto Cavalli presents his first collection in Paris, and then shows his collection in the famous Florentine palace, Palazzo Pitti. In the same 1972, Roberto Cavalli opened his first boutique in Saint-Tropez, France.

Cavalli loves leather, before him leather was used only when sewing sports jackets, he also makes it popular, everyday, and most importantly soft, thin, elastic. Roberto Cavalli creates a unique combination of leather with fabrics and inserts made of rough cotton, which he will use more than once in his collections. He introduces two new techniques: patchwork and laser patterning.

Roberto Cavalli Fashion House he sews clothes not for ordinary women, he sews clothes for women-predators, sexuality to whom is given by nature, and their clothes will only emphasize it. In the collections of the House of Fashion, Cavalli is often used Snake skin, bird feathers, animal skins. Everything to emphasize the predatory nature of a woman. Cavalli himself has repeatedly mentioned that he draws inspiration for his collection exclusively from nature.

Among the famous clients of the Cavalli Fashion House are Madonna, Britney Spears, Cindy Crawford Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Tina Turner, Holly Barry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Elton John, Cher, Leni Kravitz, Jon Bon Jovi and Bono.

In addition to women's clothing, the Cavalli fashion house also develops a line of lingerie, swimwear, glasses, bags, watches, shoes, and household goods. There are also clothing lines for children: Roberto Cavalli Angels for girls and Roberto Cavalli Devils for boys. Attention is also paid to the creation of perfumery: the first women's fragrance appeared in 2002, and it was called Roberto Cavalli, and in 2003 there was a fragrance for men called Cavalli Man.

"I adore women, all women" - says Roberto Cavalli, but at the same time his wife, Eva, in the past "Miss Universe", remains the companion of his life and assistant in fashion design.

Cavalli's clothes are original, eccentric, and the artist himself (just like that, Cavalli asks to be called a clothing artist, not a fashion designer) believes that he sews his clothes exclusively for young people, young at heart, regardless of the age in the passport.