Background
Mr. Rucci was born in 1957 and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Temple University.
Fashion Institute of Technology
At a Saks Fifth Avenue trunk show, the designer recalled the up-all-night effort that went into his first presentation at the old Westbury Hotel.
Designer and Award Recipient Ralph Rucci attends the 2008 National Design Awards gala at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum on October 23, 2008 in New York City.
Designer Chado Ralph Rucci walks the runway at the Chado Ralph Rucci Spring 2010 Fashion Show at the Tent at Bryant Park on September 12, 2009 in in New York City.
Designer Ralph Rucci (R) prepares a model backstage at the Chado Ralph Rucci Spring 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Tent in Bryant Park on September 12, 2008 in New York City.
Designer Ralph Rucci attends the Chado Ralph Rucci Spring 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theatre Lincoln Center on September 9, 2012 in New York City.
Designer Ralph Rucci poses backstage at the Chado Ralph Rucci Fall 2011 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 536 broadway on February 14, 2011 in New York City.
Patricia Altschul and Ralph Rucci attend The Cut and New York Magazine's dinner for Cathy Horyn on June 8, 2015 in New York City.
Iris Apfel and designer Ralph Rucci attend a cocktail party to celebrate Tatiana Sorokko's US exhibit and Book Extending the Runway Tatiana Sorokko's style at Roger Vivier on October 20, 2010 in New York City.
Vogue's Andre Leon Tally, designer Ralph Rucci, model Pat Cleveland and director Whitney Sudler-Smith at the Tribeca Talks Ultrasuede In Search Of Halsoton on April 30,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design.
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With women's wear couture and ready-made lines, Ralph Rucci is known for a signature style that merges extraordinary craftsmanship with a sophisticated, restrained aesthetic, derived from his connoisseurship of history and art. A recipient of the 2008 National Design Award, Rucci has taken on the role of ambassador for American fashion, as the first American to show in Paris couture since the 1930s.
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Mr. Rucci was born in 1957 and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ralph Rucci holds a degree in philosophy from Temple University. At the age of 21, he moved to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and later trained under Halston and a Balenciaga patternmaker. He was presented with an Honorary Doctoral Degree by the Drexel University College of Art and Design in 2015.
Mr. Rucci had his first formal show at New York's Westbury Hotel in 1981, but launched Chado Ralph Rucci over a decade later, in 1994, and began showing at New York Fashion Week in 1999. In 2002, Palph Rucci became the first American designer in more than 60 years to be invited to show in Paris by the French Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (the only other designer to be so honored was Mainbocher), and he showed his haute couture collections in Paris for the next five seasons. He is also a painter, who has exhibited in art galleries throughout the U.S. His paintings, exhibited at the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco in December, 2012.
From the beginning of his career, he was inspired by the style of such fashion icons as Elsa Peretti (for her "biomorphic nature") and Pauline de Rothschild (for "creating harmony out of disorder").
Mr. Rucci launched the Chado Ralph Rucci line in 1994, "chado" coming from the Japanese tea ceremony noted for its attention to detail, exactitude, sense of austere style, and expertise on the part of the practitioner. Ralph Rucci's gowns are included in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Texas Fashion Collection in Denton, Texas, among others.
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Quotations:
"There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that's right. But an object is truly luxurious if you allow it to be, if you use it. When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more."
"Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season."