Nino Cerruti

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Nino Cerruti ( September 25, 1930 in Biella , Piedmont ; † January 15, 2022 in Vercelli , Piedmont) was an Italian fashion designer and founder of the fashion company Cerruti .

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When his father died, the young Nino Cerruti gave up his philosophy and journalism studies. At the age of just 20, he inherited the Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti fabric factory, which his grandfather and his two brothers had founded in Biella in 1881. At the end of the 1950s, Cerruti ventured into the production of fashion. He showed his first men's collection under the name Hitman in 1957. In 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 get closer to the international fashion world being. The fabric factory in Biella, the fashion label Cerruti and the Hitman brandformed the Fratelli Cerruti Group (Cerruti Brothers). The store on Place de la Madeleine is still the company's flagship store today . A women's collection followed in 1968. From then on he called his fashion label Cerruti 1881 . Cerruti was known for its classic style, luxurious materials, elegant business fashion for men and delicate women's fashion. A trademark of Nino Cerruti himself was the yellow sweater casually draped over his shoulders. In 2015, the exhibition Il Signor Nino at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence was dedicated to Cerruti as a protagonist of Italian fashion history.

Cerruti 1881

Giorgio Armani , who was to found his own fashion label in 1974, worked as a designer for Cerruti between 1964 and 1970 . In Paris in 1970, Nino Cerruti sent female and male models down the same catwalk to present his women's and men's collections simultaneously. The Cerruti company grew steadily: the product lines were expanded, the portfolio was broadened, international expansion followed. In addition to the main line Cerruti 1881 , the sporty brand Cerruti Sport was launched in 1981 (discontinued in 2002), in 1986 the youthful second line for men Cerruti Brothers was added (discontinued in 2000), in 1995 the women's second collection Cerruti Club (discontinued in 2000). From the mid-1990s, Cerruti brought other womenswear designers such as Narciso Rodriguez (1996-1997) and Peter Spelopoulos (1997-2002) on board and presented the newly launched Cerruti Arte Couture collection (discontinued in 2002). From 1988 to 2001, the women's fashion manufacturer Kemper from Krefeld , a former Escada subsidiary, produced under license the Cerruti women's fashion created in Paris by Nino Cerruti ; the men's main collection was created in-house by Hitman. Kemper also maintained the six German Cerruti boutiques, which were converted into Louis-Féraud boutiques after the loss of the license in 2001 .

Nino Cerruti in Hollywood

In addition to his fashion collections, Cerruti also designed the clothes for films. He designed the wardrobe of Wall Street , Kathleen Turner in The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman (1990), among others. by Denzel Washington in Philadelphia (1993) and the 1980s outfits in American Psycho (2000). He also dressed Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct (1992).

Cerruti Baleri
Lanifici F.lli Cerruti

Cerruti without Nino Cerruti

In October 2000, Nino Cerruti sold 51% of his company to the Italian investor group Fin.Part (fashion group with the brands Frette , Maska and Moncler ), which pushed Nino Cerruti out of the company less than a year later. The Spring/Summer 2002 collection, presented in 2001, was the last to be designed by Nino Cerruti.

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

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  1. ↑ Morto lo stilista Nino Cerruti, aveva 91 anni. January 15, 2022, retrieved January 16, 2022 (it-IT).
  2. ↑ Morto Nino Cerruti, lo stilista amato dalle star - Piemonte. Ansa, January 15, 2022, retrieved January 16, 2022 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Gian Luca Bauzano: E morto Nino Cerruti, aveva 91 anni. «Un innovatore e creativo visionario». In: Corriere della Sera. January 15, 2022, retrieved January 16, 2022 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Textile industry: The yearning of the grand seigneurs (February 8, 2007)
  5. ↑ New York Times: Nino Cerruti Discreetly Exits the Fashion Stage (June 27, 2001)
  6. ↑ Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto: Exhibitions: Il Signor Nino. Studiopepe, 2015, accessed January 16, 2022 .
  7. ↑ Coleen Barry: Nino Cerruti, Italian designer who revolutionized menswear, dies at 91. The Associated Press, Milan, accessed January 16, 2022 (English).
  8. ↑ Textile industry: Cerruti now fully in the hands of Finpart ( Memento of March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (June 21, 2006)
  9. ↑ Textile industry: Cerruti starts reorientation
  10. ↑ Salone del Mobile 2012 - Maison Martin Margiela , vogue.de, April 20, 2012
  11. ↑ WWD: Front Row at Cerruti (January 22, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Cerruti, Nino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fashion designer
BIRTH DATE September 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Biella , Piedmont
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2022
PLACE OF DEATH Vercelli , Piedmont