Ray Petri

{{Short description|British fashion designer}}

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{{Infobox fashion designer

|name=Ray Petri

|birth_date=16 September 1948

|birth_place=Dundee, Scotland

|death_date= August 1989 (aged 40)

|death_place=London

|education=

|label_name=Buffalo

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Ray Petri (16 September 1948 – August 1989){{cite news|last=Limnander|first=Aramand|title=Buffalo Soldier|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/style/tmagazine/11tpetri.html|work=The New York Times|date=11 March 2007}} 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.{{cite news|last=Flett|first=Kathryn|title=The man who dressed a decade|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/sep/17/features.magazine37|location=London|work=The Guardian|date=17 September 2000}} 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.{{cite book|last=Jobling|first=Paul|title=Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography since 1980|year=1999|publisher=Barnes & Noble|isbn=1-85973-228-3|pages=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0c1a2W1yBoIC&q=ray+petri+1989&pg=PA38}} During his career, he also worked with designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Giorgio Armani.{{Cite book|last1=McAssey|first1=Jacqueline|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWdMAQAAQBAJ&q=%22ray+petri%22|title=Basics Fashion Design 08: Styling|last2=Buckley|first2=Clare|date=2011|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-2-940411-39-9|language=en}}

Petri's death, in August 1989 at the age of 40, was AIDS-related.{{Cite book|last=Lynge-Jorlen|first=Ane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7y3kDwAAQBAJ&dq=ray+petri&pg=PT176|title=Fashion Stylists: History, Meaning and Practice|date=2020-08-06|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-350-11507-1|language=en}}