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Giuliana Coen was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in Venice. Her grandfather had a pigment factory, where
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Camerino's handbags were renowned for their innovativeness. They used richly patterned and coloured fabrics that had formerly been only used for clothing. In 1946, she made a bag patterned with a trellis of R's, foreshadowing
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in 1956 in recognition of the success and influence of her handbags. Her cut-velvet bags featured brass hardware made by
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from the film was the last song that
Giulliana Camerino danced to before fleeing for Switzerland, and so she took the professional name Roberta as a memory of earlier, happy times.
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In 1980 Camerino closed her fashion house in order to focus her energies into profitable licensing deals for ties, scarves, aprons, and wallpaper. That same year, the
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reassured her, telling her not to cry about being copied, but to 'cry the day they don't copy you'.
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