컬렉션: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Born in 1960, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada is a well-known Spanish entrepreneur, artist, stylist and designer. Daughter of an aristocrat and an architect/art collector, Agatha grew up in a cultured and refined environment, with the opportunity to immerse herself in her father's vast art collection, which included works by Andy Warhol and Miro, artists who influenced her greatly. After setting aside her dream of becoming a painter, she attended the School of Arts and Techniques of Fashion in Barcelona. At 20, she began to work in the Madrid atelier of designer Pepe Rubio, and in 1981 she held her first fashion shows at the Centro de Diseño and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Madrid.

Her creations were an immediate and overwhelming success in Madrid at the height of the Movida Madrilena cultural movement. Her brightly coloured, comfortable and informal clothing is printed with simple and childish motifs like stylized hearts, flowers, and stars. In 1982, she opened her first store, and soon her collections were on the Osaka, Paris and Miami runways. Since then, her national and international fame has never stopped growing, especially after her collaboration with the Spanish department store El Corte Inglés in 1992. Today, the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada brand covers different sectors from fashion to packaging, gadgets, costume jewellery, bags and shoes. In addition, she has worked with such prestigious international brands as Mattel, for which she created a dress for Barbie; Bic for a line of lighters; BTicino for a series of plates. She participated in the project Cow Parade Madrid.

Passionate about interior design, she has created furniture and household items, tableware, chairs, tables, bed linens and carpets. For Kartell, she reinterpreted the Ghost chair; for Vorwerk, she designed a collection of rugs; and for Formica, a colourful kitchen. Her vivid and original style has attracted the attention of the Spanish brand Vondom, for which she created the Agatha children's furniture collection consisting of a small table and garden chairs that perfectly express her colourful language of simple and evocative forms.