(Barcelona) The Catalan couturier Antonio Miró, an emblematic figure of Spanish fashion, died at the age of 74, after a half-century career which took some of his creations with a resolutely “Barcelonian” style to international catwalks, announced Thursday the Minister of Culture.
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“May he rest in peace,” tweeted Miquel Iceta, the Minister of Culture, on Thursday.
“Saddened by the death of Toni Miró, one of the great names in Catalan fashion”, also reacted on Twitter the Catalan regional president Pere Aragonès.
“A Barcelonan at heart, creative, revolutionary, who has inspired many generations and made known the ‘Barcelona’ brand, which has inspired both in his way of doing things and in his way of dressing”, commented of his side Jaume Collboni, deputy mayor of Barcelona on the same social network.
Born in 1947 in Sabadell, near Barcelona, in northeastern Spain, Antonio Miró died of a heart attack according to local media.
The son of a tailor, the Catalan designer opened his first store in Barcelona at the end of the 1960s, when he was only 20 years old.
His creations were quickly noticed by the fashion of the time and in 1976, he managed to create his own brand, with which he paraded in Paris, New York or Tokyo.
With a style with Mediterranean touches, closely linked to the image of Barcelona, Antonio Miró was notably at the origin of the uniforms created for the ceremony of the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. He also designed outfits for the Catalan regional police or private companies.
Miro had received the Cristóbal Balenciaga National Fashion Award and the Fine Arts Gold Medal in 2002.