Charlotte Ronson Biography

Name : Charlotte Ronson

Date of Birth : August 7, 1977

Birth Place : London, England

Profession : Fashion designer

Charlotte Ronson was born August 7, 1977, in London, England. The daughter of socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and real estate mogul and band manager Laurence Ronson, she grew up hobnobbing with Keith Moon, Keith Richards and Daryl Hall, all of whom were regular guests in her home. While her parent’s marriage was certainly glamorous from the outside, it was highly tumultuous beneath the surface, and they divorced while Charlotte Ronson and her siblings, Mark and Samantha, were still in grade school. Her mother later married Foreigner frontman Mick Jones and moved the entire family to New York City where Charlotte Ronson spent the better part of her youth.

Ronson launched her own label in 1999 with the help of hip-hop mogul Damon Dash, owner of Roc-A-Fella Records and the even more successful clothing line Rocawear. Dash had signed Samantha to his record label, and then decided to back Ronson's design aspirations. The label, C. Ronson, was followed by a small boutique of the same name in New York's NoLita neighborhood. In 2003, Dash bought the brand outright, but Ronson retained creative control. "I've always been nervous about business," she confessed to Julee Greenberg in a WWD article about her label's new parent company. "I am more of a creative mind than a business mind. Before Damon, my mom would help me here and there, but she was really just looking out for my best interests as her daughter. Damon is such a great friend and I trust him. He knows the business and how to make these deals.

In early 2005, Ronson and Dash formally ended their partnership, and she headed into new territory with her Japanese financiers. A new label was launched later that year, using the name "Charlotte Ronson" instead of just her first initial, and she was quite ready to move into a new direction. "The line used to be young contemporary," she explained to Lauren DeCarlo in WWD , but noted, "I've grown up, my style has grown up, and I want the line to grow into a full collection."