Fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at the age of 83, WWD reports.
The Italian designer first launched his brand in 1970 and developed an innovative printing process on leather and denim, building a global fashion and lifestyle business with vibrant animal prints, distressed jeweled denim and sensual dresses.
Cavalli comes from a family of artists, as his grandfather Giuseppe Rossi was a prominent figure in the Macchiaioli movement, whose work was exhibited at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Roberto applied his artistic sensibility to his fashion designs after studying at the Florence Art Institute.
In the early 1970s, he invented and patented an innovative leather printing process and in 1972 opened his first small store called Limbo in Saint-Tropez, which was such a success that the following year he was invited to showcase his leather goods at the famous Sala Bianca in Florence, along with Missoni, Krizia, Fendi and Basile.
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