Italian clothier Roberto Cavalli, recognized for a flamboyant, glamorous model and textile improvements, has died at age 83, his firm introduced Friday.

“Expensive Roberto, you will not be bodily right here with us anymore however I do know I’ll really feel your spirit with me at all times,” Fausto Puglisi, artistic director at Roberto Cavalli since October 2020, wrote in an Instagram put up.

“Relaxation in peace, you can be missed and you’re cherished by so many who your identify will proceed on, a beacon of inspiration for others, and particularly for me,” Puglisi added.

Born in Florence on 15 November 1940, from a household of artists, Cavalli was orphaned of his father at simply 4 years outdated, as he was killed in a Nazi roundup generally known as the Cavriglia bloodbath in 1944.

Cavalli turned famend within the early Nineteen Seventies for his animal prints and an extreme, attractive model that remained his trademark all through his lengthy profession.

“It’s with deep remorse and an excellent unhappiness the Roberto Cavalli Maison participates within the passing of its founder Roberto Cavalli,” his firm mentioned in a press release. “From humble beginnings in Florence, Roberto succeeded in changing into a globally acknowledged identify cherished and revered by all. (His) legacy will dwell on through his creativity, his love of nature and through his household who he cherished.”

After founding his personal trend home within the early Nineteen Seventies, Cavalli shortly turned an iconic model, cherished by high celebrities like Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyoncé.

Cavalli patented a brand new printing methodology for leather-based and debuted the patchwork denim that was considered one of his emblems in Florence’s Palazzo Pitti in 1972. He revolutionized denims, making a sandblasting method to provide denim a distressed look, and including Lycra to denims to make them sexier, stretchy.

Cavalli took frequent inspiration from the pure world, that includes animal prints and fish-scale sequins. The Cavalli girl ranged from hippie to slick rocker, in diaphanous robes that caught the air, seductive beaded attire or attractive skinny fits.

As his trend home recalled on Friday, Cavalli’s defined as soon as his “animalier” inspiration with a well-liked quote: “I copy the gown of an animal as a result of I like to repeat God. I believe God is essentially the most improbable designer.”

He stepped again from designing a few decade in the past, after ceding 90% of the corporate to the Clessidra non-public fairness group. The corporate is now managed by Auriel Funding SA.

“Don’t name me a designer. My expertise is somewhat discovering what makes a cloth, a gown, a lady particular, considering at all times of trend as whether it is dream of ready-to-wear, one thing able to be worn,″ he wrote in his autobiography, “Simply Me,” printed in 2013.

He instructed The Related Press in an interview that the lady he dressed was “a lady who believes so much in herself. A girl who can present she is robust however on the similar time smooth and romantic.”

Cavalli is survived by mannequin Sandra Nilsson, who has been his accomplice since 2014, and 6 kids. He turned the daddy of his sixth little one a the age of 82.