Cerruti: The international Italian designer dies of fashion at the age of 91

January 16, 2022

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Nino Cerruti in 1989

Nino Cerruti, the famous Italian fashion designer, has died at the age of 91.

Reports said he died in a hospital in Piedmont, where he was admitted to undergo a hip operation.

Cerruti was known to insist on trying his designs on himself first, and kept a large number of these designs in the textile factory that his grandfather had established in Biella in 1881.

“I always carry out my designs to be worn by the same person, that person is me,” he once told AFP.

Cerruti used his family’s long experience in textile and textile manufacturing in their own factory to enter the world of fashion in the 1950s.

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Cerruti in Capri in September 1968

He was the owner of revolutionary trends in the world of fashion, as he was the first designer who asked to participate in one show, male and female models wearing the same clothes.

In the 1980s, Cerruti opened a branch of his fashion house in Hollywood, where he designed clothes for stars such as Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks.

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Cerruti used to ride a bicycle

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Cerruti at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival with Prince Albert II of Monaco and Hollywood star Antonio Banderas

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Cerruti with Catherine Deneuve and Fanny Ardant in Paris in 1999

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Cerruti with Anthony Hopkins in 1994

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Photo from Nino Cerruti’s photoshoot in 1987

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Cerruti in his design studio

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Cerruti at home with his wife and son in Rome 1988