Roberto Cavalli was born on 15 November 1940, in Florence, Italy, to Marcella, a tailor, and Giorgio Cavalli, a mine surveyor, of Italian descent. He is a fashion designer and inventor, best known as the founder of the luxury Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli.

A major name in fashion, how wealthy is Roberto Cavalli? Sources state that Cavalli has amassed a fortune of over $500 million, as of late 2016. His net worth has been established through his involvement in fashion, and his assets include several houses, such as the luxury hilltop villa in Florence, in which he has been living for over 36 years. The extravagant estate, with pools, a vineyard and a stable of racehorses, is more like a museum of fine art. Cavalli also owns a helicopter, a 62–foot speedboat, and three luxury Ferrari sports cars.

Roberto Cavalli Net Worth $500 Million

Cavalli was raised in an artistic household, as his mother was a tailor and his grandfather, Giuseppe Rossi, an acclaimed member of the Macchiaoli group of painters in Italy. He attended the Academy of Art in Florence in the late ’50s, where he focused on textile print, making prints on knit that put him on the map in the eyes of major hosiery companies in his homeland. He began making T–shirts and jeans that caught on with young Italians, paving his way to recognition, and establishing his net worth.

In the early ’70s, Cavalli patented a leather printing technique, which earned him commissions from acclaimed design houses such as Hermès and Pierre Cardin. He soon presented his first women’s collection in Florence, followed by a short-lived line for men. Soon afterwards, he opened his first boutique in Saint-Tropez, France, and his net worth started to rise.

However, popularity of the minimalistic-chic fashions of new wave designers that dominated in the mid- to late-’80s, Cavalli seemed to lose his footing in the world of fashion during this time, focusing more on his private life. However, in the late ’80s, he began to apply artistic techniques to denim. Then, in the mid-’90s he presented the first sand-blasted jeans in Milan, and invented stretch jeans with Lycra, which gained an considerable popularity. He soon opened several more boutiques in Italy, and during this time he also began showing women’s lines at the Milan Fashion Week, earning a great following among fashion–forward men, women and particularly celebrities, among them singers Madonna, Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera, soccer star David Beckham, the acclaimed rapper P. Diddy and the entire cast of the “Sex and the City” TV show. By the end of the decade, he had launched Cavalli Jeans, a youth oriented line which was later renamed to Just Cavalli, reinforcing his status in the world of denim and reviving his design house’s success. His wealth was significantly boosted.

Cavalli’s first store in the USA was opened in 1999, bringing the designer an enhanced level of fame and financial success; in 2004, his sales in the USA were estimated at $150 billion.

In addition to clothes, Cavalli also designs housewares, accessories, watches, jewelry, fragrance, footwear, swimsuit, underwear and eye-wear, and aside from fashion, Cavalli has also been involved in other investments, including owning several luxury cafe-stores around the world.

The acclaimed designer has created some of the world’s finest outfits, but despite being in business for over 45 years now, at 76 he is reluctant to retire, despite all that he has accomplished. His successful career has enabled him to achieve worldwide fame and to earn an impressive fortune.

In his personal life, Cavalli married Silvanella Giannoni in 1964, and the couple had two children. After their divorce in 1974, he married beauty queen Eva Duringer in 1980. They have three children together and the family resides in Florence.

Sondra Celli is an American fashion designer and television personality, best known as a dressmaker for TLC’s reality show “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding” (2012- ), and her dresses were also showcased in “Bling It On” (2012), and “Gypsy Sisters” (2013- ). Celli’s career started in 1984.

Have you ever wondered how rich Sondra Celli is, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Sondra` net worth is as high as $1.5 million. An amount earned through her successful career as a designer. In addition to creating dresses for reality shows and television, Celli also owns The Sondra Celli Company which improved her wealth.

Sondra Celli Net Worth $1.5 Million

Sondra Celli grew up in the US but moved to Europe at age 15 to study fashion design in Italy, Denmark, Sweden, France, England, and Switzerland. She returned to America, and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, from where she graduated with a major in men’s wear in 1978. Celli then worked for some prestigious fashion houses in Italy, New York, and Hong Kong which both helped her to gain a lot of experience, and increase her net worth.

In 1984, Celli established her fashion company called The Sondra Celli Company, now known as Sondra Celli Designs, concentrating on making unorthodox crystal couture and accessories for toddlers, older children and women. Her unique studio is located in Waltham, Massachusetts, just near Boston, where Celli’s one-of-a-kind dresses decorated with Swarovski crystals can be found. Sondra’s original and innovative creations found their way into numerous magazines, including Town & Country, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Times, The Sun, The Boston Globe, and The Huffington Post.

Since 2012, Celli’s dresses have featured on TLC’s reality show called “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding”, a spin-off from the British “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”. The series is following the gypsies and their culture, and has great entertainment value in not only recognising the general culture of Romani gypsies, but also their wedding tradition including expensive dresses. Celli is known for making clothes for the Gypsy community since her graduation in 1978, and with the success of the reality show (1.6 million viewers per episode on average), Celli’s famous dresses are in high demand.

Sondra and her team worked on the TV mini-series “Bling It On” in 2012, showcasing the unique dresses with sparkling crystals, and showing the insights into her business and her creations for gypsies, babies, and brides. Since 2013, Celli has also worked on another TLC reality project called “Gypsy Sisters”, and is responsible for the costumes that the four women protagonists are showcasing.

Celli designed custom uniforms for the New England Patriots Cheerleaders, and also made an astonishing limited edition porcelain called Crystal Bride by Sondra Celli. The figurine is inspired by one of Sondra’s distinguished gipsy wedding dresses, and decorated with 31 handmade flowers, platinum pieces, and Swarovski crystals. This Sondra creation can be found on Amazon.com.

Regarding her personal life, Sondra Celli’s most intimate details such as marital status and the number of children are unknown, as Sondra has successfully kept them away from the public’s eye. It is known that she currently resides in Boston, though.