Altuzarra

Fashion Designer

Joseph Altuzarra is a New York-based fashion designer and founder of name-sake label Altuzarra. He was born and raised in Paris. After graduating high school, Altuzarra attended Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, where he completed a BA in Art and Art History, with a strong focus on fashion and architecture. He interned with Marc Jacobs, and then joined the Proenza Schouler team as a freelance designer.

In October 2006, Riccardo Tisci recruited Altuzarra as design assistant for Givenchy, where he worked on the ready-to-wear collections, with particular emphasis on tailoring. He showed his first Altuzarra collection for S/S 09 in September 2008. His collections have been featured in publications including French, Italian, American and British Vogue, Elle, the New York Times and Women's Wear Daily. The label Altuzarra is stocked by over thirty retailers worldwide, including Opening Ceremony, Liberty and Harvey Nichols.

In 2011, Joseph Altuzarra was given the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award and the CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear Design the following year. In 2013, he was named winner of the US Woolmark Prize and later that year Kering bought a minority interest of his fashion label.

Joseph Altuzarra is a New York-based fashion designer and founder of name-sake label Altuzarra. He was born and raised in Paris. After graduating high school, Altuzarra attended Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, where he completed a BA in Art and Art History, with a strong focus on fashion and architecture. He interned with Marc Jacobs, and then joined the Proenza Schouler team as a freelance designer.

In October 2006, Riccardo Tisci recruited Altuzarra as design assistant for Givenchy, where he worked on the ready-to-wear collections, with particular emphasis on tailoring. He showed his first Altuzarra collection for S/S 09 in September 2008. His collections have been featured in publications including French, Italian, American and British Vogue, Elle, the New York Times and Women's Wear Daily. The label Altuzarra is stocked by over thirty retailers worldwide, including Opening Ceremony, Liberty and Harvey Nichols.

In 2011, Joseph Altuzarra was given the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award and the CFDA Swarovski Award for Womenswear Design the following year. In 2013, he was named winner of the US Woolmark Prize and later that year Kering bought a minority interest of his fashion label.

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