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Gina Fratini
English fashion designer
Gina Fratini | |
|---|---|
| Born | Georgina Caroline Eve Butler (1931-09-22)22 September 1931 Kobe, Japan |
| Died | 25 May 2017(2017-05-25) (aged 85)[1] London, England |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
Gina Fratini (born Georgina Caroline Eve Butler, 22 September 1931 – 25 May 2017) was a Japanese-born British fashion designer.[2]
Early life
She was born in Kobe, Japan, the daughter of the Hon.
Somerset Butler (son of Charles Ernest Alfred French Somerset Butler, 7th Earl of Carrick) and his wife Barbara, and spent most of her childhood in India. Her godfather was Sir Victor Sassoon.[2] On her return to the UK, she studied at the Royal College of Arts.
Career
She set up her own business in 1964 and became one of the top British designers of the early 1970s, winning the Dress of the Year Award in 1975; some of her garments from the period are held in the Victoria & Albert Museum's costume co