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She worked in design across Italy before returning to Tokyo in 2018 to start her own practice. By 2020, she was rebranding traditional crafts and developing a sustainable apparel brand using vegan leather. In 2023, she co-founded rararà studio.
Her work fuses both worlds the Italian round mindset, expressive and relational, meeting the Japanese square mindset, precise and deliberate.
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kiara
Born in Tokyo, 1987. Raised in Italy.
She grew up between two countries, learning to see the contrast: Italian boldness, Japanese subtlety. After studying art in high school, she moved to Milan to study architecture at Politecnico di Milano, influenced by her father, a lighting designer.
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tokyo / milano
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