Jump to content
Main menu
Navigation
●Main page
●Contents
●Current events
●Random article
●About Wikipedia
●Contact us
●Donate
Contribute
●Help
●Learn to edit
●Community portal
●Recent changes
●Upload file
Search
●Create account
●Log in
●Create account
● Log in
Pages for logged out editors learn more
●Contributions
●Talk
(Top)
1
Life and career
2
Personal life
3
References
4
External links
Keren Craig
●한국어
Edit links
●Article
●Talk
●Read
●Edit
●View history
Tools
Actions
●Read
●Edit
●View history
General
●What links here
●Related changes
●Upload file
●Special pages
●Permanent link
●Page information
●Cite this page
●Get shortened URL
●Download QR code
●Wikidata item
Print/export
●Download as PDF
●Printable version
Appearance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keren Craig (born 27 February 1976 in Lucerne, Switzerland) is a Swiss-born British fashion designer.[1] Together with Georgina Chapman, she founded the high-end fashion label Marchesa in 2004.[2]
Life and career
[edit]
As teenagers, Craig met future partner Georgina Chapman while they were both students at Chelsea College of Art and Design.[3] Craig graduated from Brighton Art College in 2000 with a BA (Hons) in Fashion Textiles with Business and afterwards concentrated on print and embroidery design. This included freelance printmaking at Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana.[4]
In 2004, Craig and Chapman launched Marchesa which is named after socialite Marchesa Luisa Casati.[3] Investors of the brand include Giuseppe Cipriani and Steve Witkoff.[5] In 2006, the label was named one of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund's top ten finalists.[4]
At Marchesa, Craig was Director of Textile Design.[6]
In June 2019, among the Harvey Weinstein scandal, Craig announced that she was going to leave Marchesa.[7]
Personal life
[edit]
Her mother is the animator Bobbie Spargo, and her grandfather is Nicholas Spargo, creator of Willo the Wisp.
References
[edit]
^ a b About Marchesa
^ a b "nymag". Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
^ Fashion Mini: February 2008
^ CFDA. "CFDA Members". CFDA. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
^ "Designer Keren Craig entschloss die Hochzeitskleid Marke Marchesa zu verlassen". Trauringe Gold. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
External links
[edit]
t
e
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keren_Craig&oldid=1221325711"
Categories:
●1976 births
●Living people
●Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
●Alumni of the University of Brighton
●English businesspeople in fashion
●English fashion designers
●People from Lucerne
●Wedding dress designers
●21st-century English businesswomen
●21st-century English businesspeople
●British women fashion designers
●Fashion biography stubs
Hidden categories:
●Articles with short description
●Short description matches Wikidata
●Use dmy dates from April 2022
●Articles with hCards
●All stub articles
●This page was last edited on 29 April 2024, at 07:21 (UTC).
●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0;
additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
●Privacy policy
●About Wikipedia
●Disclaimers
●Contact Wikipedia
●Code of Conduct
●Developers
●Statistics
●Cookie statement
●Mobile view
