Paloma Picasso

Paloma Picasso
Born
Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot

(1949-04-19) 19 April 1949 (age 75)
Vallauris, France
Occupation(s)Fashion designer, jewellery designer, businesswoman, socialite
Spouses
  • Rafael López-Cambil
    (m. 1978; div. 1998)
  • Eric Thévenet
    (m. 1999)
    [1]
Parents
Relatives

Paloma Picasso (born Anne Paloma Ruiz-Picasso y Gilot on 19 April 1949) is a French jewelry designer and businesswoman, best known for her collaboration with Tiffany & Co, and her signature perfumes.

The daughter of artists Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot, she is represented in many of her father's works, such as Paloma with an Orange and Paloma in Blue.[2] She is also represented in her mother's work, "Paloma à la Guitare” (1965), which sold for $1.3 million in 2021.[3]

Picasso is renowned for being among the most stylish ladies in the world. She was a muse to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, and Vanity Fair has inducted her into the International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List.

  1. ^ Williams, Paige, Paloma Picasso - The Jeweler with the famous name designs a big brand and a wonderful life, Pink Magazine, pp. 48–53, March–April 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2012
  2. ^ "Paloma Picasso," from the Biography Resource Center, the Gale Group, 2001.
  3. ^ Riding, Alan (6 June 2023). "Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2024.