Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer nicknamed the ‘Leopard King’ who epitomized 2000s bling – obituary

Roberto Cavalli in 2005 with singer Christina Aguilera, whom he called his muse: ‘excess is sometimes success’, he said – Fred Prouser Roberto Cavalli, who has died aged 83, was the maximalist Italian fashion designer known as the ‘Leopard King’ who unleashed his fever dream of exotic animal prints, skin-tight sandblasted jeans and gravity-defying dresses … Read more