Emilio Cavallini

Emilio Cavallini
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.

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 started to open in Florence, Milan, Rome, Paris, Düsseldorf, 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.

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