Emilio Cavallini

Emilio Cavallini is a high quality italian brand, offering a touch of class to the hosiery industry. The Emilio Cavallini style is unmistakable for its creativity: geometric cuts, optical motifs, strong colors. Since 1980, when the Emilio Cavallini brand was registered, the designer has been strongly expressing his determined style: unconventional, eccentric, ever changing. Currently Emilio Cavallini is working on a building and archive with the patterns and techniques he developed in 40 years of design. He also nourishes his passion for current and ancient art. This passion leads him to build art pieces of various forms and dimensions using tights as if they were strings. This book is dedicated to this passion for art and his creativity as a fashion designer.

Emilio Cavallini is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his hosiery collections. From 1964 to 1966 he attended College in Florence. He quit college because of this fascination with the world of fashion and went to the Swinging London, where he met Mary Quant. In 1980 he launched his own brand of Emilio Cavallini hosiery that now produces 4 million fashion tights per year and sells worldwide.

Benedetta Barzini is an Italian actress and model, who established a successful fashion career in New York City. In December 1966, she was named one of the "100 Great Beauties of the World" by Harper's Bazaar. That same year, Barzini became involved with, and later engaged to, New York poet and media artist Gerard Malanga, an early collaborator of Andy Warhol.