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"Yesterday a film producer called me. He wanted to make a movie of my life," Cavalli reveals as he dumps several international cell phones, an iPod and a few loose Cohiba and Montecristo cigars out of a python tote. The designer's rags-to-riches tale is certainly fit for...
Truth be known, there have been two waves of Cavalli: the first in the early 1970s when a barefoot Brigitte Bardot was spotted in his designs in St.-Tropez, and the second in the late '90s when Cavalli was rediscovered by rock-'n'-roll stylists.
It was through his work with prints that Cavalli first came into the fashion business. At art school in the early 1960s, he befriended a fellow student whose family owned an apparel factory. "She said, 'Why don't you do some prints on T shirts?'" An order of 21 T...
He would make weekly trips to Cuomo?the capital of the textile industry?in a tiny Fiat 500 and then hang around the factories and watch the silk-screen-printing process. "The moment I learned something new, I was driving back to Florence to use it." His printing unit grew...
Today the printing process begins with Cavalli's digital camera with which he documents images he likes?flowers, nature, sunsets?before downloading them to the computer. The next stop is the main printing area: two warehouse-size rooms occupied by 10 wooden counters, each the length of a billiard table...