Fabrizio

The jewellery designer Fabrizio Riva started his professional career at the end of the 1980s. Over the years, he collaborated with a number of important designers. Together with Giancarlo Montebello and Niki de Saint Phalle, he personally supervised the creation of a jewellery collection. He designed silver accessories with Gabriele de Vecchi. He collaborated with the Redwall Group, designing jewels as handbag accessories. With Eleonora Fiorani he set up an anthropology and semiotics project on the language of jewellery. In 2002, he collaborated with Nina Ricci and created a watch collection, while with Matteo Thun he designed the “Omega Lady” watch. For the Radisson Group Es Hotel in Rome he created a jewellery collection devoted to Customer Care and, in the same year, he personally supervised World Gold Council’s Arabia Trend Book. He also coordinated Casa Damiani’s Bliss jewellery line.

In 2005, he devised an innovative jewellery collection to be worn with wedding dresses for the fashion designer Elisabetta Polignano. In 2006, in collaboration with Mal d’Africa srl, he established a project promoting cooperation between Italy and Africa, aimed at stylistically redesigning jewellery based on African craft production. In 2008, for Saporiti Italia, he inserted jewellery in furniture pieces intended for exclusive private resorts in Dubai. In 2009, he was selected by the publisher Skira to be part of a travelling exhibition presenting an overview of Italian contemporary artists, whose venues included Vicenza, Milan, Berlin, Turin, and Tel Aviv. In 2010, together with photographer Marco Predazzi, he promoted a personal exhibition entitled “Paesaggi Femminili” (“Female Landscapes”) at the Galleria Itinerarti in Gallarate. He has been the exclusive designer of Estrostudio for many years. Today his collections are present in Barney’s, Liberty London, Luisa via Roma, and many other retail outlets.