Adolfo Faustino Sardiña (February 15, 1923 – November 27, 2021), professionally known as Adolfo, was a Cuban-born American fashion designer who started out as a milliner in the 1950s. While chief designer for the wholesale milliners Emme, he won the Coty Award and the Neiman Marcus Fashion Award.

2021年12月2日 · The leading American milliner and fashion designer Adolfo has died. A favorite of Nancy Reagan (she wore his designs to both of her husband’s inaugurations) and the social set, he was known for...

Adolfo Sardina, best known as Adolfo, began his successful fashion career in Paris as an apprentice to Balenciaga. American buyers admired his work and encouraged him to come to New York. In 1953 he became a designer for the milliner Emme.

2021年11月29日 · Adolfo, who achieved international fashion fame as one of Nancy Reagan’s favorite designers during her years as first lady and who dressed many of society’s most prominent women for almost three...

Though by the 1980s he was best known for his ladylike, Chanel-inspired cardigan suits, in the 1960s Adolfo’s designs were playful and even flamboyant. He won a second, special Coty Award in 1969 for his head to toe women’s design.

2021年11月30日 · Adolfo Sardinia, a New York-based designer whose first name was intrinsically linked to former first lady Nancy Reagan for decades, has died at the age of 98. The designer, who was known simply...

2014年1月20日 · For more than 25 years, Adolfo dressed society ladies from C.Z. Guest and Betsy Bloomingdale to Jackie Kennedy and the Duchess of Windsor. He’s received several Coty awards and today oversees numerous licenses.

2018年3月24日 · Adolfo began his career as a milliner in the early 1950s, a time when hat designers were accorded as much respect and attention as dress designers. By 1955 he had received the Coty Fashion award for his innovative, often …

2014年6月8日 · Adolfo created the cat-woman look in his 1964 collection. A leopard-skin mask and a red fox helmet made an arresting statement for winter sidewalks. Small capitals are used to identify designers with articles of their own — for example, balenciaga in the first article.

Adolfo began his career as a milliner in the early 1950s, a time when hat designers were accorded as much respect and attention as dress designers. By 1955 he had received the Coty Fashion award for his innovative, often dramatic hat designs for Emmé Millinery.