Ray Petri

Ray Petri
Born16 September 1948
Dundee, Scotland
DiedAugust 1989 (aged 40)
London
LabelBuffalo

Ray Petri (16 September 1948 – August 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. He loved reggae and styled Freddie McGregor.[1][2] Between 1983 and 1989, Petri worked as a freelance with style magazines The Face, i-D and Arena. He collaborated with stylist Mitzi Lorenz and photographers Jamie Morgan, Martin Brading, Roger Charity, Marc Lebon and Norman Watson to evolve the Buffalo Boy series of fashion spreads.[3] During his career, he also worked with designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Giorgio Armani.[4]

Petri's death, in August 1989 at the age of 40, was AIDS-related.[5]

  1. ^ a b Limnander, Aramand (11 March 2007). "Buffalo Soldier". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Flett, Kathryn (17 September 2000). "The man who dressed a decade". The Guardian. London.
  3. ^ Jobling, Paul (1999). Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography since 1980. Barnes & Noble. p. 38. ISBN 1-85973-228-3.
  4. ^ McAssey, Jacqueline; Buckley, Clare (2011). Basics Fashion Design 08: Styling. A&C Black. ISBN 978-2-940411-39-9.
  5. ^ Lynge-Jorlen, Ane (6 August 2020). Fashion Stylists: History, Meaning and Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-11507-1.