NIt often happens that a stylist speaks on television of his work and his career. The last test of Fausto Puglisicreative director of Roberto Cavalli, in the episode of the program Casa Italiaaired On Rai 2 January 28, 2025.
Born in Messina in the mid -seventies, driving the maison founded by the homonymous stylist (who passed away last spring) from 2020, Puglisi tells his story, from the beginning to today.
The landing in America, the humble beginnings As a waiter in Tribeca (it ended almost immediately to manage the restaurant wardrobe, he confesses), the love for pop culture and photography, e The relationship with the world of celebrities who made him famous, from Patti Wilson (with whom everything started) to Whitney Houston, from Taylor Swift to Miley Cyrus.
And a comment on Roberto Cavalli’s spring-summer 2025 collection, who wanted to dedicate to the founder last September 2024, a few months after his death. An all -round tribute to the brand’s codes and the history of the maison, seasoned with its personal touch (and a supermodel parade).
Fausto Puglisi, the interview of Casa Italia To the stylist of Roberto Cavalli
«Collecting the legacy of Roberto Cavalli is certainly a great honor. He represented everything in the early 2000s, it was a very beautiful and light period for me, I lived in the United States and then there was only talk of Roberto CavalliRoberto Cavalli was the king of fashion, Hollywood dresses Roberto Cavalli, the great department stores from Bergdorf Goodman nEiman Marcus in Saks Fifth Avenue sold Roberto Cavalli. Women loved Roberto Cavalli, it was a sort of manifesto of freedomof audacity, strength, very Italian and that’s what foreigners like: it was color, it was the press, it was music above all ».
«The image of the woman has changed in the last twenty yearsI always liked to make pieces that respect Roberto’s DNA but who basically also filled my desire to do something that remains and that represents the period in which we live ».
The ending of the Roberto Cavalli fashion show by Fausto Puglisi for the Pe2205 (Photo: Roberto Cavalli).
Sicilian origins and debut in America
«I like to alternate the sexy with something more classicI am extremely Mediterranean, I am Italian, I am Sicilian and I have a culture linked to tailoring, also linked to the idea of the boutique. I come from Messinaa point on the strait that has an extraordinary light. I love Messina’s light because it is absolutely blinding, it is a light that brings out the fuchsia of the buganvillea, the turquoise of the sea, also the white of the walls. I decided to make iconic images that are typically Messina, such as the sunsets and the Aeolian Islands, or the Strait of Messina “declares the designer to the Rai microphones regarding the Roberto Cavalli spring-summer 2025 collection.
«For example, this print is a print that was born the day I left for the United States: I was on the Caronte and photographed the waters of the Strait by the Caronte. Loving art a lot, everything can be born by watching a movie, listening to music or watching an exhibition, Often there are visual inspirations that connect me with a certain type of fabric, with a certain type of weights, with a certain type of colors. That is very important, the process in which the collection or project identifies and I understand that it is the right direction ».
Waiter in Robert De Niro’s restaurant
«Since I was a kid I have always dreamed of going to the United Statesit was something I wanted deeply, not to go away from Sicily but because I knew that it was my place, because I always loved pop culture. I started as a waiter in Robert De Niro’s restaurantThe Tribeca Grill. I was a disaster, I made the dishes fall, so they put me to the wardrobe saying “Maybe with clothes, with the coats you will be more luck”and that was my first job ».
«I had made a first collection in Sicily, which I brought to America with me. The first person who saw that collection was Patty Wilson Which for me is an icon still R a great style, dressed Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, David Lachapelle, the photographer “.
Naomi Campbell in the front row at the Roberto Cavalli Spring-Summer 2025 fashion show (Photo: Jacopo Raule/Getty Images).
Fausto Puglisi, the stylist of the celebrations
“When Patty saw in particular a look, he asked me what I would do on the following Friday, I said” I will look at the restaurant to work “and she said” no will be your first Grammy Awards “, so the my work. I owe a lot to Whitney Houston, I owe a lot to Patty Wilson, I owe a lot to Whitney’s record company that it was the Arista Records And all the support that Patty gave me. That was an extraordinary experience, I had just arrived in Messina and I find myself at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for my first Grammy Awards with Whitney Houston which was however an absolute icon ».
“After Whitney there was Michael Jackson’s birthday At Madison Square Garden, in which Whitney Houston always performed in his honor and was beautiful because Liz Taylor and Marlon Brando were present and that is another iconic moment. What I like in my relationships, in my creative process with celebrities, is a constant dialogue and above all the creation of the staging, as the outfit–en–scène. At this moment I love Miley Cyrus very muchloving rock music a lot, I think she is really the last Rockstar ever. Dressing a celebrity does not give me any emotion if it is not always connected to something that comes to people, who represents an iconic moment, a bit like it was with Madonna, with Kendall Jenner, with Jennifer Lopez, with Whitney; With Beyoncé recently in Texas it was an extraordinary moment ».
A look by Roberto Cavalli Pe2025 created by Fausto Puglisi (Photo: Roberto Cavalli).
A Swiftie He likes to “get his hands dirty”
“For example For the last Taylor Swift tour tour What I loved to do – being one too Swiftiebecause I love Taylor a lot, I respect Taylor to die – though What I did is listen to its soundtrackshis music and understand how to enhance everything respecting what was the message he wanted to give. The same goes for Beyoncé, it applies to anyone. For Madonna I worked on two tours, Madame X And Rebel Hurt“.
«I like the idea, I like to be a worker, I like to be like a head of the lights, I like to get my hands dirty, I don’t see the celebrity as a pride from the provinceI like the star rather because I like Andy Warhol, because I like pop culture, because I love music and I like the possibility that through music fashion still has a popular value that is losing more and more ».
I woman © RESERVED REPRODUCTION