Clements Ribeiro
| Private company | |
| Traded as | Clements Ribeiro |
| Industry | Fashion |
| Founded | London, England (1993) |
| Founder | Suzanne Clements, Inacio Ribeiro |
| Headquarters | London, England |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Suzanne Clements, Inacio Ribeiro |
| Website | https://www.clementsribeiro.com |
Clements Ribeiro is a London-based fashion house established in the early 1990s by husband and wife partnership Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro. It is known for its feminine designs, bold prints and luxurious knitwear.
Named as one of fashion's 'Magnificent Seven' by Vogue in 1997 (alongside Tom Ford, Miuccia Prada, Valentino, Alexander McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto and Karl Lagerfeld), the label became popular among the Britpop scene. High-profile wearers of the brand have included Adele, Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss and Jarvis Cocker.
Brazilian-born Inacio Ribeiro and British-born Suzanne Clements met on their first day at Central Saint Martins, London where they had enrolled on the MA in fashion led by Wendy Dagworthy. Graduating in 1991 with Firsts and marrying a year later, they established their eponymous brand in 1993. In a joint interview with The Independent in 2010, Ribeiro said: "The creation of Clements Ribeiro was a real accident. When we graduated, it was impossible to get a job in London. We went to Milan and hated it, so doing our own thing made sense".
In 1994, they were part of a trip to Japan sponsored by the UK's Department of Trade and Industry; Marks & Spencer and Harvey Nichols sponsored their early London fashion shows and, by 1997, their range was sold in some 15 countries. The label became a stalwart of London Fashion Week and won a New Generation Designers of the Year (NEWGEN) award in 1996. In the same year, the label was nominated for the British Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards, losing out to Alexander McQueen. In 2000, the label was beaten to the title by Hussein Chalayan, who expressed surprise that Clements Ribeiro hadn't won.
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