Joseph Hilton McConnico (13 May 1943 – 29 January 2018) was a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived and worked in Paris, France, from 1965.
[1] A self-taught fashion designer, Hilton McConnico officially launched his first atelier when he was 16 years old and, after winning a challenge organized by Vogue magazine, discovered Paris, where he moved two years later.
In 1990, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art held a retrospective of 30 years of his creations.
He was also the first American to have work permanently inducted into the Louvre's Decorative Arts collection.
Later projects included the Toupary restaurant on the fifth-floor of the historic Samaritaine department store and the Hermes Museum in Tokyo, which he conceived for the new Renzo Piano building in the famed Ginza shopping district and a collection of limited series and unique pieces for Formia International in Murano Glass.