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Article: The rise of Ralph Rucci: the American designer's 24-year career has followed a rocky path, but his uncompromising desire to create beautiful clothes has endured--ultimately taking him to the Paris couture, the racks of Neiman Marcus and the closets of discerning fashion icons like Deeda Blair.(Designer Profile)
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- Harper's Bazaar
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Ralph Rucci makes clothes like no one else, taking pains to make things that are beautifully finished," says legendary designer James Galanos of his recent trip to Paris to see Rucci's spring 2004 couture collection. "He is a throwback to the great designers such as Balenciaga. There is such elegance to his work."
Ralph Rucci, who could have slipped in from a more graceful era, has finally arrived. When he began showing couture in Paris two years ago, the soft-spoken Rucci became the first American designer to do so under his own label since Mainbocher in the 1930s. But if you've never heard of him, there is a very good reason. Having begun his career in 1980, ...