Fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at age 83, his company says
(NEXSTAR) – Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli has died at age 83, his company said on Instagram Friday.
The post read, in part:
A life lived with Love.
It is with great sadness that today we say our final goodbyes to our founder Roberto Cavalli. From humble beginnings in Florence Roberto succeeded in becoming a globally recognised name loved and respected by all. Naturally talented and creative, Roberto believed that everyone can discover and nurture the artist within themselves. Roberto Cavalli’s legacy will live on via his creativity, his love of nature and via his family who he cherished.
FILE – Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, center, acknowledges the applause of the audience after presenting the Roberto Cavalli men’s Spring-Summer 2015 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, June 24, 2014. Italy’s world-famous fashion designer Roberto Cavalli – known for his flamboyant and glamorous style — died on Friday, April 12, 2024 aged 83, his company announced in an Instagram post. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File) Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli talks with journalists prior to the start of the Roberto Cavalli men’s Fall-Winter 2014 show, part of the Milan Fashion Week, unveiled in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Jan.14, 2014. Italy’s world-famous fashion designer Roberto Cavalli – known for his flamboyant and glamorous style — died on Friday, April 12, 2024 aged 83, his company announced in an Instagram post. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Cavalli was renowned for the bold, flashy looks he created for the runway, often incorporating leopard print and other eye-catching fabrics in his creations. In Cavalli’s style, excess was not something to be feared.
“All the pieces that look to you a little bit too much, personally, [at] 73 years old, I will wear and you will love me,” Cavalli once said during an interview.
His style featured “embroidery, animal prints, corsets, very small minis, trousers with waists at the limit of decency,” Italian newspaper La Repubblica wrote in its obituary piece. “For Cavalli, too much is never enough.”
The designer’s company didn’t say in the Instagram post what the cause of death was. La Repubblica reports that he had been suffering from unnamed health problems “for some time,” but continued to enjoy his life to the fullest, “as he had always done.”
In March, Cavalli announced the birth of his sixth child, according to the Italian paper.
Cavalli is survived by his partner, Sandra Bergman Nilsson, and his children.
This is a developing story; The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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