Mourning in the fashion world.
Nino Cerruti, a designer and entrepreneur from Biella who represented high quality elegance and Italian style for decades in the world jet set, from Hollywood to Formula 1, died at the age of 91.
He was hospitalized in the hospital of Vercelli: according to what is learned he died following some complications that occurred after a hip operation.
He was responsible for the invention of the deconstructed men's jacket, soft, devoid of the rigidity that had characterized it for several decades. The intuition came precisely in the period, in the mid-1960s, in which Cerruti had hired talented emerging young people among his collaborators, such as Giorgio Armani, who would later become the iconic flagship garment of an unmistakable style of the deconstructed jacket.
Following the family tradition, in 1957 Cerruti began to obtain an international success confirmed with the presentation in Milan of his first clothing line, the Hitman. In 1962 he founded with Osvaldo Testa the "Flying Cross" brand, the first "Designer Line". In 1967 he inaugurated the first "Cerruti 1881" boutique on Place de la Madeleine in Paris.
(Unioneonline / D)