Roberto Cavalli In Talks to Sell Minority Stake in Company

Last spring, we told you that Roberto Cavalli, the only fashion designer who makes Christian Lacroix and Emilio Pucci look like a couple of minimalists, was out to sell a minority stake in his company to fund international expansion (or at least cover the costs of a new pet cheetah and a dozen Moscow flagship stores). Word on the street was that the likes of Carlyle and Blackstone were eyeing the beaded, fringed, leopard-printed, bedazzled, lace-edged Cavalli empire, which includes everything from the designer’s runway collection (at right, a look for spring 2009) and Just Cavalli diffusion line to a