Remembering Roberto Cavalli, ‘King of Bling’

They didn’t call him the “king of bling” for nothing.

There was nothing subtle about Roberto Cavalli, the designer known for his maximalism and over-the-top animal prints, not on his runways and certainly not in his personal life, which was splashed all over the Italian tabloids every time he went to the beach in a tiny bathing suit or fathered another child, which was with some frequency in his later years. Cavalli, who died in Florence…