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Designer Gianfranco Ferre dies at 62
By TIMES WIRES
Published June 18, 2007
Gianfranco Ferre, the Italian designer known as the "architect of fashion" for his structured, sculpted shapes and for his groundbreaking tenure at Christian Dior, died Sunday (June 17, 2007), a hospital said. He was 62. The designer was taken to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan on Friday after he had a brain hemorrhage. His unofficial title as Italy's architect of fashion came thanks to the degree in architecture he obtained in 1969 from Milan's Polytechnic Institute that inspired his designs. He started his own company in the mid 1970s, but his major leap came in 1989, when he was tapped to be the top designer for Christian Dior. At the time, it was almost unheard of for a non-French designer to lead the venerable Parisian house.
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