Ralph Rucci

Ralph Rucci (born 1957)[1] is an American fashion designer and artist.[2] He is known in particular for Chado Ralph Rucci, a luxury clothing and accessories line.[3] Rucci's clothing designs have appeared in a number of major exhibitions, and he has won significant fashion-industry awards. The designer, whose clothing has received positive critical response in the fashion press, is the subject of a recent documentary.

Life and career

Rucci was born and raised in Philadelphia, and 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 had his first formal show at New York's Westbury Hotel in 1981,[5]

Museum exhibitions

2003: Rucci's gown was included in "Goddess" exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, N.Y.[20]

2004: Rucci's gown was included in "Goddess" exhibition at the Mode Museum in Antwerp, Belgium[21]

2005: Rucci's designs were included in “Cut and Construction: The Foundations of Fashion” exhibition at the Pratt Institute in New York, N.Y.[22]

2005: Chado Ralph Rucci was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio.[23]

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.[24]

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.[25]

2006: a 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.[26]

2006: 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[27]

2007: a 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.[28]

2008: a retrospective solo exhibition opened at the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.[29][30]

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.[31]

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.[32]

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.[33]

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.[34]

2012: Rucci's designs went on exhibit at the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum in Savannah, Georgia.[35]

birth date	1957 (age 69)
birth place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
education	St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Temple University, Fashion Institute of Technology
label name	RR331
awards	Cooper-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 SCAD André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012 Honorary Doctoral Degree from Drexel University College of Art and Design, 2015

Life and career

Chado Ralph Rucci

Museum exhibitions

Awards and honors

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