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Miuccia Prada
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Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur
Key facts
- Born
- Maria Bianchi , ( 1948-05-10 ) 10 May 1948 (age 78) , Milan , Italy
- Education
- University of Milan ( BA , PhD )
- Occupations
- Fashion designer, Businessperson
- Labels
- Prada Miu Miu
- Title
- Co-CEO and head designer, Prada
- Spouse
- Patrizio Bertelli ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 )
- Children
- 2, including Lorenzo Bertelli
- Relatives
- Mario Prada (grandfather)
- Awards
- Council of Fashion Designers of America International Award (1993)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bianchi
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Milan
- Spouse
- Patrizio Bertelli
- Occupation
- fashion designer
- Educated at
- University of Milan
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Award
- Time 100
- Field of work
- fashion design
- Official website
- www.prada.com
- Image
- Miuccia Prada (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1948-05-10
- relative
- Mario Prada
- birth name
- Maria put
- has works in the collection
- Kunstmuseum Den Haag
- Commons category
- Miuccia Prada
- social media followers
- 1314340
- owner of
- Versace
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Encyclopedic overview
Miuccia Bianchi Prada ( Italian: [ˈmjuttʃa ˈpraːda, miˈu-]; born Maria Bianchi [maˈriːa ˈbjaŋki] on 10 May 1948) is an Italian billionaire fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$4.8 billion. In August 2021, Bloomberg estimated her net worth to be $6.6 billion, ranking 430th in the world.
The youngest granddaughter of Mario Prada, Miuccia Prada took over the family-owned luxury goods manufacturer in 1978. Since then, the company has acquired Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and shoemaker Church & Co. In 2002, Prada opened her own contemporary art museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miuccia Prada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.