Ralph Rucci was born on 1957 and is an American fashion designer and artist.
10 Facts About Ralph Rucci
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Ralph Rucci is known in particular for Chado Ralph Rucci, a luxury clothing and accessories line.
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Ralph Rucci was born and raised in Philadelphia, and holds a degree in philosophy from Temple University.
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Ralph 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.
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In 2002, Ralph 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, and he showed his haute couture collections in Paris for the next five seasons.
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Ralph Rucci has twice been nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Womenswear Designer of the Year Award.
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Ralph Rucci's influences include the painters Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, Antoni Tapies and Francis Bacon, sculptor Louise Nevelson, Japanese symbolism, and the designer James Galanos.
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In 2011, Ralph Rucci was inducted into the Fashion Group International Walk of Fame.
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In 2012, Ralph Rucci received an Andre Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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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.