Cristiana Proietti is a designer based in Los Angeles, creator of the cashmere clothing line " cris"。Cristiana was born and raised in Italy, and moved to North America in the late 80's. After working as the head designer and Design Director for many public companies such as bebe, Guess and Arden B. she decided to develop and distribute her own line of colorful contemporary and sexy cashmere clothing, she debuted in New York at the Fashion Coterie in 2004 and she started financing her own designs and dstribution for "cris" starting fall 2004.Cris has been distributed and sold in boutiques and stores all over the world, including Barney's, Sacks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus in the USA and Harvey Nichold and Brown in the United Kingdom. Cristiana Proietti is also the creative director of Cristiana Proietti Design Studio (CPDS) a Los Angeles creative service created to service the fashion industry needs in the fashion industry, it was established in 2003, prior to the opening of "cris". Her work was featured on major newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The NY Times and all the major fashion magazines worldwide.