“After 25 years, Roberto Cavalli has been discovered,” the designer joked in 2001. Although his career began with a bang in 1970 (and though his label predates that of Gianni Versace, to whom ...

Italian luxury-fashion label Roberto Cavalli SpA is shunning quiet luxury and China, two of the industry’s most powerful engines, in its attempt to make a comeback—with a little help from ...