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Subject: Fashion Designer Fernanda Gattinoni

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Date Posted: November 26, 2002 7:09:16 EDT

Italian fashion designer Fernanda Gattinoni, whose elaborate creations were worn by such screen stars as Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman, died Tuesday. She was 95.

Gattinoni died at Rome's Policlinico Umberto I hospital, her fashion house said.

Despite her age, Gattinoni was still actively involved in fashion. She was working at her atelier's headquarters near Rome's Via Veneto on Monday night when she became ill and was taken to the hospital.

Gattinoni made her name as a jet-set fashion designer during Rome's cinema boom in the 1950s and 1960s. In those years, she also excelled as a film costume designer, creating, among other things, Audrey Hepburn's attire in the 1956 movie ``War and Peace.''

Born in Italy's northern Lombardy region, Gattinoni left for London at 17 to work at the Molineaux fashion house. Turning down an offer to work for famed French designer Coco Chanel in Paris in the late 1920s, she returned to Italy, where she went on to design haute couture under her own label.

Her son, Raniero Gattinoni, also a designer, joined her in the mid-1980s when the fashion house branched out to include ready-to-wear clothes in its collections. He died in 1993.

In an interview published this year in the Italian fashion magazine Bookmoda, Gattinoni was asked what defined elegance for her.

"Rules exist: No extravagance and no nudity. I've struggle my whole life to teach women that transparent clothes are useless _ they tantalize but don't seduce," she said. "What mystery is left for these poor men to unveil?"

A funeral was scheduled Wednesday in Rome, the fashion house said. There were no survivors.

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