Antoni Miro
LAURA WARRIOR
The fashion designer Antoni Miro has died at the age of 74, according to theACN. Born a Sabadell in 1947, the son of a tailor, he opened his first store at the age of 20, in 1968, where he marketed his own designs. ‘Yellow‘was in the Rambla de Catalunya from Barcelona. In 76 he created his own label Antonio Miro with men’s and women’s clothing and created collections that reached the most prestigious catwalks in the world. Its definitive international expansion reached the 1990s. It received the award Christopher Balenciaga (1987), the prize Laus of payment (1992), at Medalla FAD (2000) i la Gold Medal of Fine Arts (2002).
Miró created the wardrobe of companies and institutions, redesigned the uniform of the Mossos d’Esquadra in 1984, or plays and movies. In 1992 he was in charge of designing the costumes for the ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympic Games. The director ofBusiness and Work, Roger Torrent, lamented the loss of the designer, “a benchmark of fashion in Catalonia and also in the international arena “, he pointed out through Twitter. “Let the earth be light,” wrote the minister of Culture, Miquel Iceta, on his Twitter account.