Italian shoe designer Sergio Rossi dead from COVID-19
Sergio Rossi, the 85-year-old Italian women's footwear designer responsible for founding the high-end women's footwear industry in the mid-20th century, has passed away due to the COVID-19 infection. Rossi passed away in his hometown of Cesena in central Italy. The country's coronavirus death toll is the highest in the world at 13,915 confirmed deaths.
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