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Italian designer

Born:Rome, 2 December 1930.

Roberto Capucci is a well-known designer for his contemporary design; the use of color, fabric and form.

A tribute to Roberto Capucci, one of Italy's most famous fashion designers.

Roberto Capucci wanted to become an architect or a set designer.

Capucci started out as a fashion designer, and somewhere along life's runway he presented himself as a sculptor whose medium happens to be.

Roberto Capucci is the '50s Italian couturier who, from his home city of Rome, earned plaudits for his outlandish creations—sculpted from.

Education: Attended Liceo Artistico and Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, 1947-50. Career: Assisted designer Emilio Schuberth before opening first studio, Via Sistina, in Rome, 1950; opened Paris studio, rue Cambon, 1962-68; launched first fragrance, for men, Capucci, 1965; returned to Rome and opened Via Gregoriana studio, 1968; designed costumes for Pasolini's film Teorema, 1970; first fragrance for women, Yendi de Capucci, 1974; designed costimes for opera Norma, 1976, in Verona; designed occasional fashion collections, from 1982; second women's fragrance, Capucci de Capucci, 1987.

Exhibitions:Variété de la Mode 1786-1986, Münchener Stadtmuseum, Munich, July 1986; 60 Years of Italian Cultural Life,Columbia University, New York and Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 1986-87; Fashion and Surrealism, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1988; Roberto Capucci: Art in Fashion—Volume, Colo