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Nino Cerruti - one of the great Italian designers and fashion entrepreneurs - has died aged 91.
Reports say he passed away in hospital in Piedmont where he had checked in for a hip operation.
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Image caption,Nino Cerruti pictured in 1989
He always insisted on trying on his own creations first. Many of them were kept at the textile factory his grandfather founded in the northern town of Biella in 1881.
"I have always dressed the same person, myself," he once said, according to AFP news agency.
With his experience in producing excellent fabrics at his family's textile mill, Cerruti went into the clothing business in the late 1950s.
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Image caption,With a model in Capri in September 1968
He opened his first boutique in Paris in 1967.
When he asked male and female models to walk down the catwalk in the same clothes, he revolutionised fashion, AFP notes.
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Image caption,Riding his bike on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice in 1985
In the '80s, he branched out into Hollywood, designing clothes for stars including Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks.
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Image caption,At the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 with Antonio Banderas (L) and Prince Albert II of Monaco
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Image caption,With Catherine Deneuve (C) and Fanny Ardant in Paris in 1999
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Image caption,Dining with Anthony Hopkins in 1994
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Image caption,From a portrait session in Italy in July 1987
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Image caption,In his studio in 1991
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Image caption,At home with his wife and son in Rome in 1988
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