Roberto Capucci

Roberto Capucci (born 2 December 1930) is an Italian fashion designer.

Capucci was born on 2 December 1930 in Rome, Italy. He studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he studied with artists such as Marino Mazzacurati, Marcello Avenali, and Libero De Libero.

During the 1950s, he started his first atelier on Via Sistina in Rome and showed his work at Giovanni Battista Giorgini's villa in Florence. A young Oriana Fallaci, reporting for the weekly Epoca, covered the news.

In 1952, he presented his work at the Sala Bianca of Palazzo Pitti in Florence alongside other designers such as Vincenzo Ferdinandi, Sartoria Antonelli, Atelier Carosa, Giovannelli-Sciarra, Polinober, Germana Marucelli, Sartoria Vanna, Jole Veneziani and 16 sportswear companies and boutiques.

In 1958, he introduced the Linea a Scatola (Box Line), which earned him the Boston Fashion Award (Filene's Young Talent Design Award) alongside Pierre Cardin and James Galanos.

In 1961, he received positive reviews from French critics at the Paris fashion shows, leading him to open his atelier at 4 Rue Cambon in Paris in 1962.

In 1968, he returned to Italy and began working in his studio on Via Gregoriana in Rome, where he presented his collections as part of the official fashion calendar organized by the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. In the same year, he designed costumes for Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp for Pier Paolo Pasolini's film “Teorema”.

In July 1970, Roberto Capucci presented his creations for the first time at the Nymphaeum of the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome. The fashion show featured models without makeup or hairstyling wearing low-heeled boots. During this period, he began experimenting with rigid and structural decorative elements, such as precious fabrics, stones, and straw.