Conner Ives (born 1996) is an American fashion designer.
He was raised in
Bedford, New York by a dentist mother and pastor and psychotherapist father.
He is a graduate of
Central St. Martin's
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. While still at CSM he dressed model
Adwoa Aboah for the 2021
Met Gala from which he gained the notice of
Rihanna
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who hired him to help create her first
Fenty collection.
He also put out his own first collection while still in school. He is especially known for the t-shirt dresses he was hired by the London fashion boutique
Browns to design for them.
Ives work is included in the 2021 exhibition "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" (part one of a two part exhibition) at the
Anna Wintour Costume Center at New York City's
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
including a piece from his 2021 collection. In the show he is heralded for his stance on
sustainability
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. At the gala opening for the exhibition his design was worn by model Natalia Bryant.
References
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1996 births
American fashion designers
Living people
Alumni of Central Saint Martins