Lea Pericoli carrying Teddy Tinling’s Victorian lace tennis outfit at Wimbledon in 1970
Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis star of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, has died aged 89.
She is taken into account one in every of her nation’s high gamers, having reached the final 16 of Roland Garros twice and successful Wimbledon thrice.
Born in Milan on March 22, 1935, Pericoli went on to grow to be a preferred tv presenter and journalist, but it surely was her racing outfits, embellished with feathers and furs, that made her an icon.
“She is a bit like a mom to all of us,” Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, informed native media.
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Maria Josefa de Riba of Spain in the course of the second spherical of the ladies’s singles match on the Wimbledon Garden Tennis Championships on the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership in Wimbledon, London, England on June 21, 1955. Overhand hair extensions. Maria Josefa de Riba gained the competitors
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Carrying a feathered tennis skirt designed by British sportswear designer Teddy Tinling on June 23, 1964.
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He holds an umbrella on the courtroom in the course of the 1965 Wimbledon Championships on June 23, 1965
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On January 16, 1965, serving for American participant Billie Jean Moffitt within the ladies’s singles quarter-finals of the third FedEx Cup held at Kooyong Garden Tennis Membership in Melbourne, Australia. Billie Jean Moffitt gained 6-1, 6-2
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On June 23, 1968, posing in a British courtroom carrying a feathered costume
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Perikoli (left) and Carol Kalogeropoulos from Greece, carrying polyester, on the Belvedere restaurant in Holland Park, London, on June 22, 1970, on the launch of the designer’s new tennis put on assortment Styling in press preview. Kalogeropoulos wears a midriff-baring sheer mini gown with a lace skirt and bra, and silver guipure shorts
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Attend the 2019 Rolex Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco
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