What is Vincenzo Ferdinandi?
{{Infobox person | name = Vincenzo Ferdinandi | image = Vincenzo_Ferdinandi_in_1950.jpg | image_size = | caption = Vincenzo Ferdinandi in 1950 | birth_name = | birth_date = 1920 | birth_place = [[Newark, New Jersey]] | death_date = 1990 | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | occupation = [[Fashion designer]] | years_active = }} '''Vincenzo Ferdinandi''' ([[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], 29 November 1920 - [[Rome]], 22 April 1990) was an Italian [[Fashion design|fashion designer]] and one of the founders of Italian high [[fashion]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vincenzo-ferdinandi/|title=Ferdinandi, Vincenzo nell'Enciclopedia Treccani|website=treccani.it}}</ref> ==Biography== Born in the [[United States]], he returned to [[Italy]] in the early fifties to open an [[atelier]] in Rome in the highly fashionable [[Via Veneto]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://storage.googleapis.com/ferdinandi/images/1.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-09-13 |archive-date=2019-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709141643/https://storage.googleapis.com/ferdinandi/images/1.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was among the first great [[haute couture]] designers to compete with the most renowned French couturiers. In 1949 he was in [[Paris]], called by [[Christian Dior]] for a stylistic collaboration. After that experience, [[Clark & Morland Ltd]] in [[London]] also called him to design a line of shoes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://storage.googleapis.com/ferdinandi/images/53.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-09-13 |archive-date=2019-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709142523/https://storage.googleapis.com/ferdinandi/images/53.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref> Together with other names of the Italian fashion of the time such as [[Roberto Capucci]], the [[Sartoria Antonelli]], the atelier Carosa, Giovanelli Sciarra, Germana Marucelli, Polin