Italian designer Nino Cerruti will be honored with a retrospective exhibition at the June edition of Pitti Uomo, the semi-annual men's wear trade show held in Florence, media announced.
"A series of phenomenal combinations allowed me to start my career, I tried to join artisanal craft with industrial manufacturing industry to push the same manufacturing to transform quality and craftsmanship. I made clothing that people could really wear ", Cerruti said at the Pitti Uomo press conference in Milan on Thursday.
"Mr. Nino", organized by Fondazione Pitti Discovery Museum Marino Marini and curated by Cerruti and Italy's top fashion journalist Angelo Flaccavento, will debut at Pitti Uomo and run through July 7.
The exhibition is an overview of Cerruti's career and highlights the transformation of the tailoring industry.
"To look at the wardrobe will be like browsing through a diary that tells vision, craftsmanship, history and culture of fabric," Flaccavento said.
Cerrutti added, "because the purpose of fashion is not to make people different but more beautiful".
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