RITA IN PALMA’s handcrafted accessories are developed in corporation with Turkish women in Berlin. The women’s superior artistic skills, including extraordinary and complex crochet techniques , have been cultivated over several generations. This allows us the production of artistically crafted works and simultaneously offers these women an entry into employment.
Unique jewels, like collars, colliers, bow-ties, exclusive silk scarves and bags, mesmerize with the high quality of handcrafted execution and sophisticated designs.
RITA IN PALMA is the first label to combine integrative work with high-fashion design. The seemingly opposed poles of luxury fashion and social engagement are no longer a contradiction but a symbiotic relationship.
Launched only a few years ago, the label has already won the YOUNG DESIGNER FASHION AWARD and was included into the VOGUE SALON by the chief editor of the German Vogue during the MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK. RITA IN PALMA was part of Premiere Classe 2015 in Paris and the Berliner Modesalon 2016. For the social engagement RITA IN PALMA was awarded by German chancellor Angela Merkel with the special price of the startsocial award.
RITA IN PALMA is the first label to combine integrative work with high-fashion design. The seemingly opposed poles of luxury fashion and social engagement are no longer a contradiction but a symbiotic relationship.
The new social appreciation for high quality handcrafted works—as a contrasting model to the prominence of industrial mass production, which even permeates the realm of luxury goods—enables the comprehensive social engagement of the fashion label.
RITA IN PALMA has already received numerous requests for individual productions/designs. Whether these include antique tablecloths, a “baldachin” for a crib, a cap for a baptism, an exclusive cashmere scarf—decorated all over with flower blossoms—or even a bridal gown with crocheted edgings, RITA IN PALMA produces valuable originals according to your requests.