Ray Petri

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Ray Petri
Born	1948 Dundee, Scotland
Died	1989
Occupation	Fashion designer

Labels	Buffalo

Ray Petri (1948-1989)^[1] was a fashion stylist and creator of the fashion house, Buffalo.

Born Ray Petrie in Dundee, Scotland, Petri moved to Brisbane, Australia with his family at age 15. In 1969, feeling Australia was too provincial, he moved to London where he ran a jewellery booth at the Camden Street antiques market.^[1]^[2] Between 1983 and 1989, Petri worked freelance with lifestyle magazines The Face, i-D and Arena. He collaborated with photographers Jamie Morgan, Martin Brading, Roger Charity, Marc Lebon and Norman Watson to evolve the Buffalo Boy series of fashion spreads.^[3]

In 1989, Petri died of AIDS at age 41.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Limnander, Aramand (11 March 2007). "Buffalo Soldier". The New York Times.
↑ Flett, Kathryn (17 September 2000). "The man who dressed a decade". The Guardian (London).
↑ Jobling, Paul (1999). Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography since 1980. Barnes & Noble. p. 38. ISBN 1-85973-228-3.

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Name	Petri, Ray
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Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Dundee, Scotland
Date of death	1989
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