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Roberto Cavalli was born in Florence on the
15th November, 1940. He was raised in a surrounding with strong
artistic traditions: his grandfather was a Florentine painter
from the "Macchiaiolo" movement, whose works can still be seen
at the Uffizi Museum.
Following in this tradition, Roberto
attended the Academy of Art. Capricious, eclectic and original
from the beginning, he began his career when he was very young,
while still a student, inventing the first of his revolutionary
creations: a process of printing on light-weight leather which
he was able to do thanks to his meticulous research of fabrics
and continual experimenting with new technologies.
In his printing-house - something half way between a craftsman's
workshop and an artist's studio - he concentrated his studies on
the links between art, fashion and painting, eventually
patenting the revolutionary process of printing on leather that
he had evolved. |