MILAN, Italy, June 18 (UPI) -- Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferre has died of a brain hemorrhage at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, Italy, at 62.
Ferre, who was known for his signature ready-to-wear collection, died Sunday after being admitted to the hospital on Friday, The New York Times reported.
"He never gave up what he thought of as style, in his own way," said Franca Sozzani, the editor of Italian Vogue. "He has never been an easy designer, or one who was trying to please the press. In his mind there was a certain ideal kind of woman, different than the women we see in magazines or on runways -- not a trendy woman but a real woman."
The designer was one of Italy's foremost fashion designers during the 1980s and 1990s. He was well known for his masculine suits and his signature emphasis on seams.
Ferre started his career not as a designer, but as an architect.
