Fashion designer and menswear pioneeer whose relaxed suits made star appearances in more than 100 Hollywood films The fashion designer and businessman Nino Cerruti was first and last a native of the city of Biella in northern Italy, where alpine-pastured sheep, and mountain water and its millwheel powers, had been supplying an industry in fine wool textiles for a millennium. He was bred to the spinning and loom trades - "I was born in a manger," he said, "only instead of straw, there was wool" -...
Fashion designer and menswear pioneeer whose relaxed suits made star appearances in more than 100 Hollywood films The fashion designer and businessman Nino Cerruti was first and last a native of the city of Biella in northern Italy, where alpine-pastured sheep, and mountain water and its millwheel powers, had been supplying an industry in fine wool textiles for a millennium. He was bred to the spinning and loom trades - "I was born in a manger," he said, "only instead of straw, there was wool" -...
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