Sergio Rossi has died. The footwear brand icon passed away at the age of 84 in Cesena, Italy on Thursday (April 2) due to coronavirus after being hospitalized for a few days, according to WWD on Friday (April 3). “His is a story of unconditional love for shoes, which began in an Italy consumed by World War II, and was transmitted from his artisan father, who had always made bespoke shoes.
At the age of 14, he was a skilled shoemaker and together with his brother Franco during the winter he produced the shoes he would later sell in the summer on a kiosk along the Riviera,” his son Gianvito Rossi said in a statement. “His line has combined creative design with a quality achieved by a long work of improvement, tireless and endless.
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