Ippolita jewelry designer biography

American jewelry designer

Ippolita Rostagno (born December 10, 1963) is an Italian-Americanjewelry designer based in New York City.

Personal life

Born December 10, 1963 in Florence, Italy, Ippolita Rostagno is the daughter of an American artist and an Italian intellectual.^[1][2]

Raised and educated in the hills of Tuscany, Ippolita attended elementary school in a one-room medieval schoolhouse and went on to study sculpture^[2] and earn her baccalauréat degree from the Istituto D’Arte in Florence.^{[citation needed]}

Ippolita immigrated to the United States at age 18, moving to Los Angeles where she continued her studies at Occidental College^[3] and founded an alternative poetry and dance company called Rime together with Anna Stump in 1984.^[1][3]

After completing her BA in English Literature, Ippolita moved to New York City in 1986^[1] and married a fashion photographer and g