FILE: Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died, aged 62.

Record ID: 724367

  • Title: FILE: Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died, aged 62.
  • Date: 18th June 2007
  • Summary: (BN15) MILAN, ITALY (MARCH 10, 1995)(REUTERS) VARIOUS FASHION DESIGNER GIANFRANCO FERRE GREETING THE AUDIENCE AFTER FASHION SHOW
  • Embargoed: 3rd July 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: Fashion
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  • Story Text: Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died after suffering a brain haemorrhage. Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died at Milan's San Raffaele hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
    Ferre, 62, had been admitted to hospital on Friday. Dctors confirmed his death at 9:00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Sunday.
    The portly, bearded and bespectacled designer was known for his sharp, tailored women's suits and furs.
    He was big in Italian fashion in size as well as standing. Ferre wore trademark three-piece suits -- a world away from the older Giorgio Armani's clean-shaven, trim looks and T-shirt and jeans image.
    Ferre was born in 1944 in Legnano, near Milan. He graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic Institute in 1969. One of his first jobs was making raincoats in Genoa.
    He launched his first own-label womenswear line in 1978 and in the same year founded the Gianfranco Ferre company. In 1982 he sent his first menswear collection down the runway and in 1987 he unfurled Gianfranco Ferre fourrures furs.
    Ferre then branched out into fragrances, jewellery, children's wear and a spa venture with British company ESPA.
    In 1989 he became artistic director of one of France's most prestigious fashion houses, Christian Dior, at the request of owner Bernard Arnault. He left after seven years and the spring 1997 collection was his last for the French label.
    Ferre's Milan workspace was in the bohemian Brera district, in a converted 1902 shipping factory called the Gondrand building.
    At his last womenswear show in February, 2007, the singer Skin modelled the dazzling finale of a diamond-studded spider web top. Skin, who used to sing with the band Skunk Anansie, also performed a concert in the Ferre headquarters.
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