Roberto Cavalli, the Italian-born fashion designer who celebrated glamour and excess, sending models down the runway and actresses onto red carpets wearing leopard-print dresses, bejeweled distressed jeans, satin corsets and other unapologetically flashy clothes, has died.
His company announced the death on Instagram but provided no details.
Mr. Cavalli’s signature style — “molto sexy, molto animal print and molto, molto Italiano,” as the British newspaper The Independent once described it — remained essentially unchanged throughout his long career.
But he skillfully reinvented his clothes for different eras, enjoying several renaissances and building a global lifestyle brand in the process.
When the model Naomi Campbell wore a pair during a runway show in 1993, stretch jeans became a huge trend.
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