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Mariuccia Mandelli (31 January 1925 – 6 December 2015) was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Mandelli established her ready-to-wear fashion house, Krizia, in 1954 by bringing suitcases of samples to shops in Milan out of her Fiat 500.
Dec 8, 2015 · Mariuccia Mandelli, an Italian fashion designer whose long list of credits includes the shortest of achievements — she was widely described as having invented hot pants — died on Sunday at her...
Dec 7, 2015 · MILAN — Mariuccia Mandelli, the founder of Krizia, one of Italy’s first ready-to-wear brands that helped build the country’s global fashion identity, died at the age of 90 on Sunday evening after...
- Miles Socha
Dec 7, 2015 · When Mariuccia Mandelli was selecting a name for her fashion line, she opted to title it “Krizia,” after a male character in a Plato dialogue about female vanity who spends all of his money on women — a winking choice that epitomized her high-glamour meets intellectual approach.
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Dec 7, 2015 · ROME (Reuters) - Mariuccia Mandelli, founder of the Krizia fashion brand, has died at 90. Mandelli, who was born in the northern city of Bergamo, founded her company in the 1950s and named it...
Dec 10, 2015 · Mariuccia Mandelli Funeral: Italian Designer’s Life Honored and Remembered. The service was held on Wednesday at Milan's Sant'Angelo church.
Dec 14, 2015 · Mariuccia Mandelli, an Italian fashion designer who electrified the runway with shorts known as hot pants, knitwear emblazoned with animals and trouser suits for the modern yet feminine...
