FASHION DESIGNER

Roberto Cavalli

1940 - 2024

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Roberto Cavalli (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto kaˈvalli]; 15 November 1940 – 12 April 2024) was an Italian fashion designer and inventor. He was known for exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Cavalli has received more than 1,536,875 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Roberto Cavalli is the 16th most popular fashion designer (up from 18th in 2019), the 1,052nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,006th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Fashion Designer.

Roberto Cavalli is a fashion designer from Italy. He was born in 1938 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He has designed clothes for celebrities and royalty, as well as for the runway. He is famous for his use of bright colors and bold patterns.

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  • 26

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  • 7.65

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  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Roberto Cavalli ranks 16 out of 51Before him are Maurizio Gucci, Hubert de Givenchy, Donatella Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Kenzō Takada. After him are Mary Quant, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, Tom Ford, Oscar de la Renta, and Paul Poiret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Roberto Cavalli ranks 74Before him are Fatema Mernissi, Dennis Tito, John Gotti, Bruce Chatwin, Raul Julia, and Brian Josephson. After him are Al Jarreau, Lance Henriksen, Gudrun Ensslin, Milena Dravić, Ira von Fürstenberg, and Tom Jones. Among people deceased in 2024, Roberto Cavalli ranks 49Before him are Andrew Schally, Leon Cooper, James Earl Jones, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Maurizio Pollini, and Bengt I. Samuelsson. After him are Philip Zimbardo, Marcello Gandini, David Soul, Ira von Fürstenberg, Robin Warren, and Richard Serra.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roberto Cavalli ranks 1,052 out of 5,161Before him are Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511), Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826), Sebastian Cabot (1484), Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (1918), Giovanni Messe (1883), and Luigi Cadorna (1850). After him are Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774), Constance of Sicily, Queen of Aragon (1249), Charles Felix of Sardinia (1765), Bruttia Crispina (164), Lucius Accius (-170), and Bettino Craxi (1934).

Among FASHION DESIGNERS In Italy

Among fashion designers born in Italy, Roberto Cavalli ranks 5Before him are Pierre Cardin (1922), Maurizio Gucci (1948), Donatella Versace (1955), and Elsa Schiaparelli (1890). After him are Gianfranco Ferré (1944), and Sergio Rossi (1935).