Roberto Cavalli Hates American Fashion, Blames Anna Wintour

Roberto Cavalli approves of neither American fashion not its arbiter, Queen Anna Wintour.
In a video interview aired on D, the weekly style magazine from Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the flamboyant Italian designer unleashed a tirade of abuse against the U.S. industry.
‘Just look at American fashion,' he said, 'which is almost fashion. It's terrible and you almost can't look at it.’

 'It has been driven by a great journalist, Anna Wintour, who wants all women to be like her and to dress the way she does.

 

'I see young people coming out of design schools and they are too minimalist. Probably because their professors are minimalist, because they in turn have professors who follow styles of designs that are too industrial and commercial.'
He did have some positive advice for aspiring designers though.
'I can only say try to be different and try to create artistic styles. Then the clothes can be transformed, changed and modified to take into account wearability and the possibility of actually being worn.'

The designer is no stranger to controversy . In fact it was only last month that he made some less than flattering comments to Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper about Giorgio Armani’s new hotel in Milan.
'Between Armani and me there is an abyss. Have you seen that new hotel? It looks like a psychiatric hospital.'
Giorgio Armani maintained a dignified silence. 

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