Katayone

Adeli (1967). Designer of Iranian origin. She has been living in the United States since the age of 10. She grew up in Los Angeles and, while still a teenager, started designing clothes for herself and her friends. In the early 1990s, she worked as a designer for the group Parallel and, in 1996, decided to quit that company to launch a line with her name. When it seemed that Stella McCartney was not going to renew her contract with the fashion house Chloé, Katayone Adeli was in the list of the possible successors. In 1999 she was included in the small group of new talents for the Perry Ellis Award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. In September of the same year, she opened her first store in Bond Street, New York. Her clothes are nowadays on sale in the best stores in London, Paris, and Tokyo.