'Sensual obsessive' fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro dies at 86 | Malay Mail

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PARIS, Dec 23 ― French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro, who described himself as a “sensual obsessive”, has died in Paris at the age of 86, his family told AFP yesterday. Ungaro, who retired from fashion in 2004, died on Saturday after two years in a “weakened” state of health, a family...

French designer Emanuel Ungaro checks a dress on a model before his 1999 Spring/Summer Haute Couture collection in Paris. ― AFP pic

He was born in Aix-en-Province in southern France in 1933 to a family of Italian immigrants, and moved at the tender age of 22 to Paris, where he was trained by Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga before launching his own label nine years later.“One should not wear a dress, one should live in it,” said the man who regarded his life's work as a craft.

At Ungaro, “sensuality is everywhere,” his friend, the writer Christine Orban, observed in a biography. He made a name, it said, by “anticipating trends and reminding women of their power of seduction via his richly embellished designs”.

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