Nino Cerruti’s personal wardrobe

Nino Cerruti, one of my personal heroes, died on 15 January, aged 91.

The Italian menswear maestro was an innovator on many fronts, as I discussed with him in Biella, north Italy in 2012.

My interview with him can be seen here https://www.ericmusgrave.co.uk/index.php/archive/consumer-titles/therake/the-rake-issue-21/

The highlight of my day with him was seeing the archive of his personal wardrobe, which was being organised at the former mill building of his family’s cloth business Lancificio Fratelli Cerruti.

Each garment was identified with a paper luggage label. The highest number I saw was 702. The selection ranged from bespoke suits made for Signor Cerruti to examples of his early ready-to-wear brand Hitman and his celebrated Cerruti 1881 lifestyle collections. Here are a few selections of what I saw. It would be great if this archive could be put on public view. RIP Nino.

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