Arianna Fioratti Loreto was born in New York and studied at Harvard University (where she served as president of the two-century old social club known as the Hasty Pudding Club) and Princeton University, where she completed a thesis on Romanesque sculpture and gained a masters in art history in 1992. She began her career as a textile and fabric designer, between 1993 and 1997, and has also illustrated children’s books and designed furniture. Today she lives and works near Florence in Tuscany. She has exhibited at galleries and museums in both the United States and Europe.