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Ralph Rucci
BornPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
EducationTemple University, Fashion Institute of Technology
LabelChado Ralph Rucci
AwardsCooper-Hewitt National Design Award, 2008,

The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT, 2006, Pratt Institute Icon Award, 2009

The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Visionary Award for Fashion, 2011

Chado Ralph Rucci is a luxury clothing and accessories line designed by Ralph Rucci. The name chado comes from the Japanese tea ceremony noted for its attention to detail, exactitude, sense of austere style, and intensive expertise on the part of the practitioner.


Ralph Rucci

Ralph Rucci is an American fashion designer and artist. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, and holds a degree in philosophy from Temple University. At the age of 21, Rucci moved to New York to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and later trained under Halston and a Balenciaga patternmaker. He 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, 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 three seasons. He has twice been nominated for the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. Rucci is also a painter, who has exhibited in art galleries throughout the U.S.

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Chado Ralph Rucci garments are known for the precision of their construction, their sculptural look, and the innovative use of fabrics and materials such as exotic skins, double-faced cashmere, feathers, horsehair and organza. His use of intricate embroideries, as well as his craftsmanship recall the work of the 20th century master-couturiers. Fashion critics often note that Rucci belongs to the ranks of such designers as Balenciaga, Madame Grès and Halston. According to Robin Givhan of The Washington Post, "Rucci's clothes are aspirational in every sense of the word. They ooze luxury from 100 paces, yet they are not ostentatious. They look expensive because every seam is perfect, every button exactly placed, every skirt has just the right lift. No dress of his would dare wrinkle."

From the beginning of his career, Rucci 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"). Rucci's influences also include the painters Cy Twombly, Franz Kline, Antoni Tàpies and Francis Bacon, sculptor Louise Nevelson, Japanese symbolism, and the designer James Galanos. According to Cathy Horyn of The New York Times, "Mr. Rucci’s clothes have a devotion to elegance that can feel as pitiless as a sermon on a hot summer day." "Could Ralph Rucci be a rock star designer?" – Horyn asks rhetorically.

"Long heralded as one of America's finest designers" who has been creating collections "that ranged from sublime to, well...more sublime," 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, Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. In 2007, fashion historian Valerie Steele authored The Art of Weightlessness, a lavishly illustrated monograph published by the Yale University Press on the occasion of Rucci's exhibition at the FIT Museum. In 2008, the documentary Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House, narrated by Martha Stewart, premiered on the Sundance Channel.

Chado Ralph Rucci garments are still being entirely manufactured in the United States, unlike most other American fashion brands, and Rucci himself remains the fashion house's sole designer. The line is sold at Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, and Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States, as well as in Europe and Asia. Rucci also creates sewing patterns for Vogue Patterns.

Among many notable personalities and celebrities who have worn Rucci's designs are Deeda Blair, Martha Stewart, Charlotte Shultz, Debra Messing, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lee Radziwill, André Leon Talley, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Griffiths and Patti Smith, to name a few.

Museum Exhibitions

  • In 1985, Rucci's designs were part of “The Little Black Dress of the 21st Century” exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, U.K.
  • In 2003, Rucci's gown was included in "Goddess" exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2004, Rucci's gown was included in "Goddess" exhibition at the Mode Museum in Antwerp, Belgium
  • In 2005, Rucci's designs were included in “Cut and Construction: The Foundations of Fashion” exhibition at the Pratt Institute in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2005, Chado Ralph Rucci was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio.
  • In 2005, a Chado Ralph Rucci garment was included in the “She's Like a Rainbow: Colors in Fashion” exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2006, Rucci's designs were exhibited at a group show entitled "Breaking the Mode" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in Los Angeles, California.
  • In 2006, a Ralph Rucci gown was included in the “Glamour: Fashion, Film, Fantasy” exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2006 Ralph Rucci's designs were included in the “Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture” exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California
  • In 2007, a large scale solo installation entitled "Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness" was mounted at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2008, "Chado Ralph Rucci" – a retrospective solo exhibition opened at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • In 2008, Rucci's gowns went on exhibit entitled "A Passion for Perfection: James Galanos, Gustave Tassell, Ralph Rucci" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • In 2009, a Chado Ralph Rucci haute couture garment was included in "Design USA: Contemporary Innovation" exhibition at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2009, Rucci's designs were included in the group show "American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion" at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, N.Y.
  • In 2010, a collection of Rucci's haute couture gowns went on exhibit entitled "Extending the Runway: Tatiana Sorokko Style", at the Moscow Fashion Museum in Moscow, Russia.
  • In 2010, a Halston gown, designed by Rucci when he worked for the House of Halston in the late 1970s, was attributed to Ralph Rucci and included in the "American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Awards

Bibliography

  • Bissonnette, Anne. Chado Ralph Rucci. Exhibition catalogue. Kent, Ohio. Kent State University Museum. 2005
  • Steele, Valerie. Mears, Patricia. Sauro, Clare.Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness. New York: Yale University Press, February 28, 2007. ISBN 978-0300122787
  • Rucci, Ralph. Ralph Rucci with Ike Ude: Dialogues with Design Legends. New York: 92nd Street Y, 2009.
  • Sewell, Dennita. Extending the Runway: Tatiana Sorokko Style. Moscow: Russian Fashion Museum, 2010. ISBN 978-0-615-34760-8

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