The fashion designer Nina Ricci was born in 1883 and died in 1970. She did not set trends but rather made luxurious clothing for elite society women of a certain age. She opened her couture house in Paris in 1932. She worked by wrapping fabric directly on a client, draping and tucking to enhance their good features and hide their imperfections.

Nina Ricci retired in the 1950s. Her son Robert, who had encouraged her to expand the business, took over the running of it. The house of Nina Ricci was continued by Jules Francois Crahay and then by Gerard Pipart. Both designers followed Ricci's initial aim of creating feminine and elegant clothing.

In the late 60s The House of Nina Ricci endowed their outfits with romanticism, in the form of anything long and fringed such as scarves, sashes, feathers and beads.

The French Canadian designer Nathalie Gervais took over at Nina Ricci in 1999.

Last updated: June 01, 2003

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