Laura Biagiotti died. The designer, who would have turned 74 in August, had been hospitalized since Wednesday evening at the Sant'Andrea hospital in Rome after suffering a cardiac arrest.
The confirmation in a tweet on his official profile, a passage from the Gospel of St. John chosen by his daughter Lavinia:
— Laura Biagiotti (@LBofficialpage) 26 May 2017
Defined by the New York Times as the "queen of cashmere" for the use of that precious wool in almost all of her clothes, Laura Biagiotti was also the first Italian designer to show in Beijing in the XNUMXs.
With her daughter Lavinia she has carried on and made the family business created by her mother Delia known throughout the world, which began, in the midst of the economic boom, with a tailor's shop in via Salaria. Company that began to take off with the order of the uniforms of the Alitalia hostesses.
At just 22, in 1965, together with Gianni Cigna, who later became her husband, she founded Biagiotti Export, a company that produced and exported creations of Roman high fashion, at the time capable of rivaling the Parisian one.
In 1972 the first “Laura Biagiotti” collection was released in Florence. Then he decided to transfer the prêt-à-porter from Florence to Milan, laying the foundations of the made in Italy. In 1995 the doors of the Grand Theater of the Kremlin were opened and it was the first time that an Italian brand presented itself in Moscow.
From 2000 to 2008 she was president of the Leonardo Committee, which brings together the Italian excellence of industry, art and culture. In 2010 Laura Biagiotti received the Leonardo Award (the first time for a woman) from the President of the Republic Napolitano.
