Heart dies from Coronavirus Juanjo Rocafort, the creator of the integral costumes
The designer Juanjo Rocafort, the creator of the integral costumes, died this Sunday, April 5 in Madrid as a result of the Coronavirus, according to sources close to the family have confirmed.
The Madrid designer and decorator has died at age 76 after decades away from the first fashion line.Between 1964 and 1973 he had open stores in Madrid, London, Marbella and Ibiza and finally settled in New York, where he opened his design study at Empire State Building.
Among his clients were from Marlon Brando to Natalie Wood, Julio Iglesias (76 years) or Cristina Onasis and together with Manuel Piña became one of the representatives of the design of that stage, responding to the demand for modernity.
Modesto Lomba (58), president of the Fashion Creators Association of Spain reminds him of him as a "friendly" man who is inevitable not to remember "his last monkey of elastic shoes".
Juanjo Rocafort design.EFE
What is now usual both in sport and in day -to -day garments, Rocafort already designed it at a time, the late 80s, where perhaps he was contemplated as a futuristic proposal as demonstrated by his collection The Wit Collection9, a concept that, however, made him famous and that came to patent.
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There were numerous versions of them, with different necks and colors, with flat or heels.But that was not his only contribution to the fashion world.Light's clothes was another of his successes and consolidated his fame.Shining costumes and t -shirts that lit with batteries.
He won five gold medals to creativity at the Eureka Awards of the European Community, in 1994, for its great contribution to progress and invention in the field of fashion.
Juanjo Rocafort made a comfortable fashion for the woman, without giving up beauty, designs in which pieces painted by hand were accommodated in which modernity, tradition and a sophisticated silhouette were intertwined.Despite having enjoyed international recognition, he said in some interviews that he did not feel "prophet in his land".
Juanjo Rocafort Bluson.
Juan José Rocafort y Huete, popularly known as Juanjo Rocafort, was a regular of the great parties in the 70s and 80s.He was one of the guests at Antonio Banderas' wedding (59) and his first wife, Ana Leza (58), and in images of the time you can see him enjoying great friends and fellow members of Malaga, like Carmen Maura, like Carmen Maura, such as Carmen Maura(74).Juanjo Rocafort is the first Spanish fashion designer who has received awards for his inventions and patents in the fashion world.
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