Nina Ricci (designer)
Italian-born French fashion designer (1883 – 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nina Ricci (born Maria Nielli; 1883 – 1970) was an Italian-born French fashion designer.[1][3][5]
She was born in Turin, Italy, and moved to France at the age of 12.[3][5]
At the age of 13, she began an apprenticeship at a dressmaker's.[7]
In 1904, she married Luigi Ricci.[5] They had one child, Robert.[1][6]
In 1908, she joined the House of Raffin, where she remained for decades.[1]
She and her son Robert founded the fashion house Nina Ricci in Paris in 1932; it has been owned by the Spanish company Puig since 1998.[4]
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