Nina Ricci

Nina Ricci was founded in 1932 in Paris by Italian-born French couturier Nina Ricci (Maria Adelaide Nielli) and her son Robert Ricci as a luxury couture house specifically focused on producing elegant feminine ready-to-wear for the broader Parisian luxury customer. The house has been continuously operating from the Rue des Capucines and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré Paris addresses since the 1930s, and is one of the longer-continuously-operating French luxury houses still operating under its founding name. The Nina Ricci vocabulary went through several reinventions across the 20th and 21st centuries — Olivier Theyskens held creative direction 2006-2009, Peter Copping (2009-2014), Guillaume Henry (2015-2017), Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh (the Botter duo, 2018-2022), and Harris Reed (the British-American designer, 2022-present). Reed's tenure has rebuilt the house around a deliberately-feminine, deliberately-Romantic visual culture anchored to the historic Nina Ricci silhouette tradition. Nina Ricci is owned by Puig (the Spanish luxury conglomerate that also owns Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Charlotte Tilbury). The brand operates flagship retail in Paris (Avenue Montaigne), London (Mount Street), New York (Madison Avenue), Tokyo (Ginza, Aoyama), Hong Kong, Shanghai, plus extensive wholesale through Net-a-Porter, MR PORTER, MATCHES, Mytheresa, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lane Crawford, and the broader Asian-and-American luxury-customer distribution. The Nina Ricci perfume line (anchored to the iconic L'Air du Temps fragrance launched 1948) remains one of the defining French luxury fragrance brands and a significant revenue contributor.