Evening ensemble with plaid full skirt and patterned blouse
Riitta Immonen · 1990
Helsinki, Finland
Riitta Immonen
- Individual dressmaking
- Atelier fashion
Riitta Immonen built a career around individually designed clothing, opening her Helsinki boutique in 1942. A self-taught designer, she helped establish Marimekko with Armi Ratia in 1951 before concentrating on her own Cinderella collections.
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Evening ensemble with plaid full skirt and patterned blouse
1990
A documented example from the designer’s clothing collections.
Seppo Konstig / JOKA / Finnish Heritage Agency
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Pohjantähti silk velvet dress
1955 · Atelier Riitta Immonen
Photographed in motion at the atelier’s 1955 Teatterigrilli show, the dress demonstrates Immonen’s fluid salon tailoring.
Ensio Liensimaa; reproduced by Ritva Koskennurmi-Sivonen
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Mohair lace dress for Lempi Hilden
1967 · Atelier Riitta Immonen
Specially commissioned mohair lace and added crystals made this dress unique to its client, Lempi Hilden.
Seppo Konstig, 1990; reproduced by Ritva Koskennurmi-Sivonen
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Checked prison pinafore
1960s–1970s; 1966 uniform design · Institutional clothing
Immonen brought practical garment design to women’s institutional clothing; this pinafore follows the 1966 uniform specification.
Finnish National Museum, Prison Museum collection, VA1624; via Finnish Aviation Museum
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Sport floral summer evening dress
Date not documented · Riitta Immonen Sport
This long printed dress documents the Sport line in the university museum’s craft science collection.
Salme Vanhanen, 2015 / Helsinki University MuseumCollections & archive pieces
1 collections represented · 1 pieceSelected work
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About Riitta Immonen
Her work connected Finnish atelier dressmaking with public fashion advice through a long-running question-and-answer column in Eeva magazine.
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