Gattinoni

Fernanda Gattinoni was born in 1906 in the Italian city Cocquio Trevisago. Fernanda Gattinoni worked first in 1923 for the prestigious Molineaux London fashion house in Italy and later came to be the head of Ventura's cratieve design department. In 1945 Fernanda Gattinoni opens her own studio on the Via Marche where becomes become famous because of her designs of exuberant wedding dresses and the re-introduction of the so-called Empire style. The fashion house Gattinoni counts many famous people to her clientele including Eva Perón, Gina Lollobrigida, Princess Margaret, Ingrid Bergman, Angie Dickinson, Jackie Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn, Anna Magnani, etc. Fernanda Gattinoni died on 2 november 2002