Donna Ricco is an American

United States

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 fashion design

Fashion design

Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....

er who heads a company of the same name.

Ricco was born and raised in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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, and studied Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee for three years before transferring to the fashion department of neighboring Mount Mary College

Mount Mary College

Mount Mary College is a Catholic women's college based on the liberal arts, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of science in nursing in partnership with Columbia College of Nursing degrees in over 60 undergraduate majors, and master of arts,...

. After graduation, she and her business partner and future husband moved to New York City and launched the Donna Ricco label.

Company

Over the next 20 years, the company developed into a successful dress business distributed at department stores such as Nordstrom

Nordstrom

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 and Macy’s as well as directly from the Donna Ricco website. Ricco designs under two labels: Donna Ricco New York, a line of dresses; and Donna Ricco Collection, a higher-end line of dresses and separates. Ricco's dresses acquired a reputation for affordable fashion.

Michelle Obama

In June 2008 Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. presidential candidate

President of the United States

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 Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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 wore an off the rack Donna Ricco dress while co-hosting the TV program

Television program

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 The View. This selection attracted attention from the non-fashion news media

News media

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, garnering the designer a degree of fame (and a sudden surge in sales).

Personal life

Ricco lives in New York City with her husband, Tom Puls and their three sons, Marshall, Cooper, and Dexter.

External links

• http://www.donnaricco.com/