Nino Cerruti

Nino Cerruti ( born September 25, 1930 in Biella, Piemonte ) is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the fashion company Cerruti.

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Nino Cerruti inherited at the age of 20 years, the pulp mill Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, founded in Biella by his grandfather and his two brothers in 1881. The late 1950s to Cerruti ventured to the production of fashion. His first men's collection, under the name Hitman, he showed 1957. 1967 he founded the company Cerruti 1881 Maison de Couture, presented his first men's collection and opened his first boutique on the Place de la Madeleine in Paris to the international fashion world closer to be. The fabric factory in Biella, the fashion label Cerruti and the Hitman brand formed Fratelli Cerruti Group ( Cerruti Brothers ). The shop on the Place de la Madeleine is still the flagship store of the company. A women's collection followed in 1968. Henceforth he called his fashion label Cerruti 1881. Cerruti was known for its classic style, luxurious materials, elegant business fashion for men and petite women's fashion. A hallmark of Nino Cerruti himself was the casually around the shoulders down yellow sweater.

Cerruti 1881

In the years 1964 to 1970 has worked Giorgio Armani, who was in 1974 set up his own fashion label, as a designer for Cerruti. Nino Cerruti 1970 sent in Paris female and male models on the same catwalk to showcase its women's and men's collection at the same time. The company grew steadily Cerruti: the product lines were expanded, the portfolio has been broadened, it followed international expansion. In addition to the main line of the sporty brand Cerruti 1881 the Ladies second collection Cerruti 1981 Cerruti Sports Club launched (2002 adjusted ), 1986 came the youthful diffusion line for men Cerruti Brothers added (2000 adjusted ), 1995 (2000 set ). From the mid- 1990s brought Cerruti for women fashion designers such as Narciso Rodriguez more (1996-1997 ) and Peter Spelopoulos (1997-2002 ) on board and presented the newly launched Cerruti Arte Couture Collection (2002 set ). From 1988 to 2001, the women's fashion manufacturer from Krefeld Kemper, a former Escada subsidiary, created in Paris by Nino Cerruti Cerruti Ladies Fashion in license -produced; the men's main collection has been created in-house by Hitman. Kemper also maintained the six German Cerruti boutiques, which were converted into Louis Feraud boutiques after losing the license in 2001.

Nino Cerruti in Hollywood

Cerruti designed alongside his fashion collections, the clothes to movies. So he designed the wardrobe of Wall Street, Kathleen Turner in Romancing The Jewel of the Nile (1985 ), Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987 ), Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman ( 1990) Denzel Washington in Philadelphia (1993) and the 1980 outfits in American Psycho ( 2000).

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In October 2000, Nino Cerruti sold 51% of his company to the Italian investment group Fin.Part ( Fashion Group with the brands Frette, Maska and Moncler ), which Nino Cerruti urged less than a year later from the company. The Frühling-/Sommerkollektion 2002, which was presented in 2001, was the last, which was designed by Nino Cerruti.

Nino Cerruti himself since his departure from the fashion house focuses on the fabric manufactory Lanifici F.lli Cerruti in Biella, which also offers its own collections and is next to the house Cerruti Chanel, among others, to their customers. In 2004 he bought the Italian furniture design company Baleri and presented since 2009 under the name Baleri modern furniture. Baleri cooperates as a furniture manufacturer also with other brands, so 2012 Maison Martin Margiela. Nino Cerruti Cerruti remained of the house and was connected at the fashion shows of Cerruti in Paris a welcome guest in the front row, for example, in January 2010 with his son Julian.