Maria Cornejo
Maria Cornejo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Education | Ravensbourne College |
| Occupation | Fashion designer |
| Label | Zero + Maria Cornejo |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2[1] |
| Awards | 2006 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award 2018 Fashion Group International Sustainability Award 2023 Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award |
Maria Cornejo is a Chilean-born fashion designer based in New York and known for her Zero + Maria Cornejo collection.[2][3]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]Cornejo was born in Chile[2] in 1962.[4] After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, her parents, who had worked at a publishing company, lost their jobs. After staying in Peru for a year and London for six months,[2] at the age of 12, she and her family relocated to Manchester, England during Pinochet's dictatorship.[5] In 1977, her mother died.[2] In 1984, she graduated from Ravensbourne College in London,[4] and with John Richmond, created the Richmond/Cornejo label.[5] She then moved to Paris[1] and married Mark Borthwick in 1988.[4]
In 1996, Cornejo and her family moved to New York City. Two years later, in 1998, she opened a store called Zero which she converted from a garage space on Mott Street; the store was later renamed Zero + Maria Cornejo.[1]
Clients
[edit | edit source]Cornejo's clients include Michelle Obama, Tilda Swinton, Christy Turlington and Cindy Sherman.[4]
Honors
[edit | edit source]Cornejo was the Fashion Prize winner of the 2006 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards after being selected as a finalist in 2005.[5] Cornejo has been a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) since 2003 and an original member of the CFDA Sustainability Committee. In 2010, Cornejo won the first CFDA Lexus Eco Fashion Challenge and in 2017 was awarded one of the top three prizes in the CFDA + Lexus Fashion* Initiative, a 17-month long business development program aimed at accomplishing measurable sustainability changes within the business. In 2018, Cornejo was honored with the Fashion Group International’s Sustainability Award at their Night of the Stars Gala in New York City. In 2019, Cornejo was appointed to the CFDA board of directors by the new chairman, Tom Ford.[6] In 2023, she received the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the CFDA.[7]
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External links
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- Living people
- American fashion designers
- American women fashion designers
- English fashion designers
- British women fashion designers
- Chilean emigrants to England
- Chilean emigrants to the United States
- English emigrants to the United States
- Designers from Manchester
- Designers from London
- Alumni of Ravensbourne University London
- 21st-century American women
- 1962 births