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Nina Ricci

Client
Nina Ricci
Industry
Fashion & Fragrance
Services
UI/UX DesignFront-End DevelopmentBrand ExperiencePerformance & Accessibility
Live Page
Open Project

Case Study


A maison of couture and fragrance, digitised with restraint.

Nina Ricci is a French house synonymous with timeless elegance — haute couture and iconic fragrance in equal measure. The maison entrusted us with enhancing its digital experience so the site carries the same sophistication and modernity that defines its collections.

Nina Ricci campaign portrait

01


The Challenge

A legacy maison carries an expectation the moment its name appears. Nina Ricci is known for timeless elegance — couture on one hand, iconic fragrance on the other — and its website has to honour that heritage while feeling entirely of the present. The bar isn't "a good fashion site." It is a digital experience that could sit beside the campaigns without looking like a lesser cousin.

The harder part is doing it globally. The same unhurried, editorial feel has to load quickly and stay accessible for visitors across regions and devices, where patience is short and first impressions are absolute.

02


The Approach

We worked closely with the maison's branding and marketing teams so the essence of Nina Ricci survived the translation to screen — tradition and innovation held in the same frame. The design leans on a minimalist aesthetic: large-format visuals, elegant typography, and enough restraint that the imagery is always the loudest thing on the page.

Underneath that calm, the build was engineered for speed and accessibility across global regions, and structured to carry seasonal collections, campaigns and lookbooks without strain.

  • Maison-grade restraint

    A minimalist system where space, type and pacing feel couture rather than commercial.

  • Campaign-scale imagery

    Full-screen film and high-resolution visuals treated with the care of the campaigns themselves.

  • Fast & accessible everywhere

    Performance and accessibility optimised across regions, so elegance never costs the visitor time.

A Nina Ricci homepage module on desktop: the red apple-shaped Nina eau de parfum bottle resting on a mound of pistachios, titled The New Pistachio Obsession, beneath the Nina Ricci navigation
A fragrance module on the live site — product photography given the space of a campaign.

03


The Solution

The result is a maison online that moves at the pace of the brand. Full-screen fragrance films open the experience; product and campaign modules — the Nina eau de parfum, the Bal bag — arrive with editorial weight rather than commercial clutter. A quiet three-part navigation (Fashion, Fragrances, Our Universe, alongside Stories and a store locator) keeps the whole house one considered click away.

Prioritised user flow serves both the casual browser and the loyal follower, and the same visual storytelling holds from a large desktop canvas down to mobile — where the fragrance films run edge to edge and the restraint reads just as clearly.

Nina Ricci on a mobile viewport: a full-screen fragrance film in warm amber tones beneath the Nina Ricci wordmark, with a Discover call to action
Mobile: the fragrance film runs full-bleed, the elegance intact at 390px.
The top of the Nina Ricci homepage on desktop: a soft, cream-toned fragrance film filling the fold under the Nina Ricci navigation
The homepage fold — a soft fragrance film under a whisper-quiet header.

04


The Impact

  • Heritage, made contemporary. The experience reinforces Nina Ricci's position as a global luxury house while feeling unmistakably current.

  • Elegance without the wait. A performance- and accessibility-minded build lets the maison stay editorial and unhurried without punishing visitors on slower connections or regions.

  • A stage for what comes next. The system is built to carry future launches, lookbooks and campaigns, so the site keeps pace with the collections rather than trailing them.

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