Nina Ricci

Birth Name:

Maria Adélaide Nielli

Birth Date:

January 14, 1883

Birth Place:

Turin, Italy

Death Date:

November 28, 1970

Place of Death:

At home at Avenue Marceau, Paris, France

Age:

Cause of Death:

Natural causes

Cemetery Name:

Cimetière de Courances

Claim to Fame:

Business and Finance

Mme. Ricci, who established her design house in 1932 and built a reputation before World War II for graceful, detailed and feminine clothes, was born in Turin, Italy. A near‐con temporary of Gabrielle Chanel, Mme. Ricci was almost the antithesis of the better‐known “Coco” Chanel, since she was neither a public personality nor a headline‐making designer. Her interest in fashion began in childhood, when she began dressing her dolls. At 13, she came to Paris and found work as a sewing girl, and after five years was promoted to the head of the workroom. At 22, she began designing her own models. The House of Nina Ricci grew rapidly throughout the thirties and their one-room maison de couture became 11 floors in 3 buildings, operations developed by WWII to include leather goods and fashion accessories. She was noted for the graceful draping of her designs, and for her practice of creating her designs on a live model— draping, arranging and cutting until she achieved the desired look.

Fun Facts

If you are going to drive all the way to the final resting place of Madam Ricci and it’s town of 350 inhabitants, then make the time to visit one of the most beautiful castles and surrounding gardens – Château de Courances. The owner of this castle was renting another little château to Nina Ricci named Le Château du Ruisseau where she loved to stay for extended visits. Today, the Château and surrounding gardens is still privately owned and it is home to four generations of the family Ganay.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Cimetière de Courances

VC 3

Courances, Departement de l'Essonne, 91490

France

Europe

Grave Location:

Ricci Family Plot

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery, make your way to the back left of the cemetery. The final resting place of Nina Ricci is 4 memorials from the back wall and 4 tombstones from the wall on your left. Her son Robert, who ran the perfume side of the fashion empire is buried 2 rows back towards the entrance near his mother.

Grave Location GPS

48.441009173388096, 2.485323018311055

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