Cinzia Ruggeri

Cinzia Ruggeri (Milan, 1 February 1942 – Milan, 6 November 2019) was an Italian designer and artist. She is known for her postmodern and surreal garments.

Career Ruggeri was born in Milan. She exhibited her work as an artist for the first time in 1960 at Galleria Prisma, age 18. Dino Buzzati wrote an introduction, praising her for her precocious talent and imagination. She then studied design at the Scuola di Arti Applicate at Castello Sforzesco in Milan and apprenticed with Carven in Paris. She launched her own label, Bloom SpA, in 1977. Her garments use unusual materials including glass, ping pong balls, felt and cowry. She also included materials like liquid crystal, LEDs and polarised lights.

Exhibitions Ruggeri's most recent exhibitions include "Cin Cin 1980-2015" at 10 Corso Como; "Umbratile con Brio" (2018) and "La règle du jeu?" (2019) at the Federico Vavassori Gallery in Milan. She also exhibited at Francesca Pia Gallery in Zurich and Campoli Presti in Paris. Her work was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome in 2022.