Emilio Cavallini
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Emilio Cavallini
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Born 1945
San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy
Nationality Italian
Occupation Fashion designer
Labels Emilio Cavallini
Emilio Cavallini (born 1945 in San Miniato, Province of Pisa) is an Italian
fashion designer, particularly noted for his hosiery collections.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Awards, Prizes and Acknowledgments
3 Sources
4 External links
Biography[edit]
From 1964 to 1966 he attended College in Florence “Universita’ di Firenze,
Economia e Commercio”. He quit college because of this fascination with
the world of fashion and went to the "Swinging London". He met Mary Quant,
his passion for hosiery started and started to dress women’s legs with
patterned hosiery. He developed pantyhoses with black/white patterns, dots,
starts and skulls, stripes, animal and different kids of fishnets. He loved
the fluorescent colors.
In 1970 he opened in San Miniato his own company, Stilnovo Spa. Besides Mary
Quant he started producing for the most important brands such as Dior,
Celine, Roberta di Camerino, Balenciaga, Gucci, Alexander McQueen and more..
In 1980 he launched his own brand of Emilio Cavallini hosiery. It was an
immediate success, he started designing shoes, leather accessories, bathing
suits and a full avante garde clothing line for young men and women.
Licensees retail stores start to opened in Florence, Milan, Rome, Paris, Dü
sseldorf, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He had a runway show in Paris with
his line for men and in Milan for women. He became member for Milan Chamber
of Fashion. In the 1980s he believed that the time to look for new clothing
forms is over and he started to develop clothing without seams on special
seamless machines with large cylinders that were intended for hosiey. He
launches the collection in New York and continues developing a large tight
that covers the whole body.
In 2009 Stilnovo S.p.A. produces 4 million fashion tights per year and sells
worldwide. Currently he is working on a building and archive with the
patterns and techniques he developed in 40 years of design. He also
nourishes his passion for current and ancient art. This passion leads him to
build art pieces of various forms and dimensions using tights as if they
were strings, he uses his mathematical knowledge to figure out the tensions
of yarns.
