Nino Cerruti Fashion Icon

A beautifully illustrated book about the fabulous career of Nino Cerruti, a pioneer of elegant men's fashion in the sixties Renowned designer for French and American film and television stars, the Formula I Ferrari team, and an early mentor of Giorgio Armani The only monograph on Cerruti currently available Hardcover 224 pages Dimensions: 9.25" x 11.81" “Fashion is balance, with a dash of theater,” was Nino Cerruti’s favorite bon mot. This monograph, the most substantial on him to date, is an entertaining and gorgeously illustrated homage to the great Italian fashion designer, whose deconstructed jackets and supple fabrics revolutionized menswear in the 1960s. He took over the family business, which his father established in 1881, at the age of 20 and immediately began to make his mark. In 1965 he opened a boutique in Paris where he launched women’s fashion, being the first designer to focus on pants (this at a time when many restaurants in Paris denied women entry if they were wea