Roberto Cavalli, famous Italian fashion designer, dead at 83

Fashion Must Be In Your DNA

Roberto Cavalli, a fashion innovator who designed for icons such as Cindy Crawford, Sophia Loren, Naomi Campbell, and Lenny Kravitz, has died. Roberto’s Instagram account reported the news of his passing today, celebrating the excessiveness in all of fashion he lived by. Even though we’ve entered the age of minimalism in fashion, Roberto always believed that the littlest thing must be done in a very big way. Roberto’s legacy as a fashion designer is largely made up of innovation, renaissances, and resurgence.

Roberto Cavalli’s milestones include designing minidresses, jackets, and jeans from patchwork denim in the 1970’s on the French Rivera. Following 2 decades exclusive only to Europe, Roberto came back globally in the 1990’s by adding Lycra to jeans to create stretch jeans to be snugged and sexy on Naomi Campbell which hugely revolutionized jeans. From there, Roberto Cavalli’s brand and aesthetic was parlayed onto jewelry, sunglasses, perfume, children’s clothes, and vodka. As Roberto Cavalli saw it, fashion can’t be learned, it must be in your DNA. And you must live life at full speed.

Daniel Quintanilla