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Article: Cavalli charts a comeback. (fashion designer Roberto Cavalli)(Brief Article)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- February 4, 1998
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NEW YORK -- It's pretty clear that technological innovation is what drives Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, who has been creating his unusual, printed designs for almost 25 years now.
"For my next collection, I will use a lot of gold in a special way," the designer said over the phone from his Florence headquarters. "I'm now treating and printing leather and jeans with a special type of gold powder. You have to see it."
Cavalli, a fashion phenomenon in the 1970s credited with popularizing leather as a high-fashion fabric, dropped out of the spotlight during the 1980s and lapsed into a quiet, custom-order business. But in 1992, when he came up with the idea of ...