Roberto Capucci
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| Born |
2 December 1930 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Fashion suits |
Roberto Capucci (born December 2, 1930 in Rome) is an Italian fashion designer. He created unusual, sculpted dresses in original materials, bewitched the fashion world and has, since his debut, been featured in shows representing most talented and renowned designers.
Capucci attended art school and Accademia di Belle Arti, where he studied with the artists Mazzacurati, Avenali and Libero De Libero.
In 1950 he opened his first atelier in via Sistina and in 1951, for the first time, he showed his creations at Giovanni Battista Giorgini’s Villa in Florence. Giorgini is considered the talent scout of “Italian High Fashion”, the inventor of the “Made in Italy”.
Only 26 years old, he was considered the best designer of the Italian fashion, particularly appreciated by Christian Dior, and in 1958 he created the “Linea a Scatola” (Box Line), artistic and stylistic a real revolution.
For this innovative proposal, he received, in 1958, the Boston Fashion Award (Filene’s Young Talent Design Award) as the best creator of fashion along with Pierre Cardin and James Galanos.
In 1961, Paris fashion shows, he was welcomed with enthusiasm by French critics. For this reason he opened, in 1962, his atelier at n°4mme rue Cambon in Paris.
In 1968 he returns to Italy in his atelier at via Gregoriana in Rome, where he showed his collections during the fashion calendar organized by the Camera Nazionale dell’Alta Moda and, in the same year, he draws costumes for Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s movie “Teorema”.
In July 1970, he showed, for the first time, his work in a museum, in Rome at the Nymphaeum of Museo di Arte Etrusca at Villa Giulia, with a collection that revolutionized the tradition of fashion, with models wearing boots with low heels without make up and hair styling.
He began the big experimentation with the inclusion of decorative, rigid and structural elements, in a mix of rich and poor material, precious fabrics, stones and straw.
In 1980 Capucci left the Camera Nazionale della Moda and decided to show the collections out of all calendars and istitutions and only when he was ready.
With the exhibition “Roberto Capucci l’Arte Nella Moda - Volume, Colore e Metodo” in 1990 at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, his explosive season began with big praise of critics and audiences in the most important museum of the world, including Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien), Nordiska Museet (Stockholm), Puskin Museum (Moscow), Museum of Art of Philadelphia, Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin).
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