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Throwback fashion: Cerruti Spring 1999 at Paris fashion week

Feeling nostalgic? Then this video might help. Take a look back at Cerruti's SS99 runway show in Paris featuring the style that brought in the millenium. Video source: Fashion Channel, via Youtube.

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Bondage hits the runway at Paris Fashion Week

The odd-couple mix of bondage and big sizes collided on the Paris catwalk Friday, in clothing that was at once roomy and adorned with nude women who were tied up tight. Japanese label Christian Dada -- in its first official appearance on a Paris Fashion Week runway -- showed off models in ballooning stovepipe trousers and oversized overcoats,...

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Aldo Maria Camillo out at Cerruti

New York - In the immortal words of Heidi Klum, "one day you're in, the next day you are out." Aldo Maria Camillo, the artistic director of Cerutti 1881 has left his post, in what seems like a surprise to many. The fashion house has said that Camillo has left to "pursue other personal interests." They have declined to provide any other...

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Paris Men's Fashion Week Day 3

Kris van Assche presented sportswear with an urban edge. Swirling jacquards and prints on knitwear and tailoring, were offset with abstract camouflage patterns and oversized proportions. Green and grey were two key colours, and strong outerwear styles came in bomber jackets and fur-collared parkas. Comme des Garcons Homme Plus saw its designer...

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Cerruti folds womenswear label

Cerruti will close its womenswear division, in a bold move to focus on its more successful men's business. The new comes following its purchase by the Li & Fung group in December, chief executive officer Florent Perrichon told WWD. “We prefer not to spread ourselves too thin in a field that is highly competitive,” he explained, adding that...

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Cerruti appoints artistic director

Italian fashion brand Cerruti has announced Jean-Paul Knott is to be the House's new artistic director. Knott follows in the wake of the departure of Nicolas Andrea Taralis. He takes over as artistic director of all its women's and men's ready-to-wear collections having joined earlier this year as designer for the Cerruti 1881 label. Knott...

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Cerruti sold, new designer

Fashion house Cerruti has been acquired by private equity firm MatlinPatterson from bankrupt Italian company Fin.part for an undisclosed amount. MatlinPatterson, a $3.8 billion fund, immediately appointed Nicholas Andreas Taralis as creative director. The brandâ€™s new chief executive, Philippe Cleach, is a lawyer who has worked for Cerruti for...