Ralph Rucci Is the Philadelphia-Bred Designer We Should All Know. P4-5
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Community Community The Philippine Kuwaiti Institute of horror-action P6Certified P16 play Devil Public Accountants Steps brings riveting organises General entertainment at Qatar Assembly and National Theatre on Induction Ceremony. August 11. Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Dhul-Hijja 6, 1440 AH Doha today: 350 - 430 COVER STORY Divergent Ralph Rucci is the Philadelphia-bred designer we should all know. P4-5 GLITZ & GLAM SHOWBIZ The Queen The buzzed-about speaks. nostalgic game 198X. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 7, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.39am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.05am Zuhr (noon) 11.41am Asr (afternoon) 3.09pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.17pm Isha (night) 7.47pm USEFUL NUMBERS The Kitchen SYNOPSIS: When gangster husbands wind up in prison in DIRECTION: Andrea Berloff the 1970s, their wives take over their organisation and become CAST: Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy, Domhnall Hell’s Kitchen’s most powerful mobsters. 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For details, contact 66523871/ art and craft, drawing, and learning spoken 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Wednesday, August 7, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Real haute couture You can’t quote prices in couture. You can’t sell the same two items to people in the same city ‘ – Ralph Rucci ’ By Elizabeth Wellington alph Rucci is a name we all should know, but only fashion scholars seem to. The Philadelphia-born designer, 61, is the king of beautiful tailoring and craftsmanship whose understated pieces Rhave been purchased by some of the world’s most important women including fi rst ladies — Laura Bush and Michelle Obama — and celebrities. We’re talking Martha Stewart, Diana Ross, Whoopi Goldberg, and yes, even Kim Kardashian. His work was featured in a 2007 exhibit at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. Monica Machado models a look during a fitting with Rucci. Wednesday, August 7, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY But his most impressive from his own kingdom, but he still accomplishment is that he’s only orbits in his own “classic Ruccis” Rucci is loath to the second American designer to space. talk about who his show a collection at Paris’ haute Rucci’s couture show was couture presentations, considered dedicated to the famed Tiff any clients are. And the most elite fashion shows in the jewellery designer and — and world (the fi rst was Main Rousseau longtime friend — Elsa Peretti. more loath — if Bocher back in the 1930s.) About 150 of some of the world’s you can believe it Rucci hadn’t been to Paris in 12 most quietly powerful people were years. And those were tough years in attendance, like Susan Gutfreund, — to let celebrities for him: He lost the rights to his the wife of the late John Halle eponymous brand, the use of his Gutfreund, former CEO of Salmon borrow pieces for name and his entire catalogue of Brothers Bank. Those with an eagle garments spanning back to the early fashion eye may have recognised the red carpet. 1980s, Rucci. Josephus Thimister, former creative Some might say Now, under his new moniker, director of Balenciaga, and Marc RR331, he returned last month to Audibet, formally of Prada. Both men this is why the the Hotel Ritz, where he kicked off breathed new life into their respective Paris Couture Week with his latest houses back in the 1990s. Rucci label never 34-piece collection, signalling to Couture shows, however, are the fashion world that he’s ready, defi ned more by the people who made it to Dior or and capable, to return to his former don’t come to the show. Couture de la Renta heights, greatness. is made-to-order, it isn’t mass- “This is big for me, really big,” produced like its ready-to-wear despite Rucci’s Rucci told me over the phone from cousin, so department stores his Upper East Side apartment, a like Neiman Marcus and Saks remarkable skill. few days after he returned to the Fifth Avenue — stores that once States. He’s hoping this show will sold Rucci off -the-rack — do not Rucci attended Waldron re-establish his name in the industry. come. Neither do the stylists or Academy, now Waldron Mercy. He But instead of trying to do ready- infl uencers. has a bachelor’s in philosophy from to-wear, he’s focusing just on haute When you spend the equivalent Temple. He studied fashion design couture. “The past couple of years of a luxury car on one garment, it’s at FIT, completing his studies in the have been a great struggle and my gauche to talk price. As a result, late 1970s. When big-name designers were Haute Couture, organisers of raison d’etre — my reason for being — couture is cloaked in a mystery that He launched his line in New York sending their pieces overseas, Rucci the couture shows, and secured is caught up with my work. Not being Rucci does his part to keep alive.