Their 400 guests enjoyed performances by Norah Jones, Jamie Cullum and Chris Martin, and it was all captured by the late legendary fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh.ĭespite all these trappings, and her front row seat at Valentino couture shows, the 37-year-old generally steers clear of the fashion party circuit, favouring the equestrian crowd instead. When she married Torretta, she wore four Valentino couture creations, flown in via private jet and delivered personally by Pierpaolo Piccioli, the label’s creative director. You can’t blame them really friends include Queen Letizia, Athina Onassis and Jessica Springsteen.
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With them is their one-year-old daughter Matilda and her eight-year-old son Amancio, from her previous marriage to professional equestrian Sergio Álvarez Moya.Īlthough Marta prefers to avoid the limelight, she and her family are exhaustively covered by Hola!, Spain’s answer to Hello! and the Spanish edition of Vanity Fair. The man with his arms wrapped around Marta’s waist is her husband of three years, former model agent Carlos Torretta. Now, Marta has been identified as the successor of that empire. In fact, her name is Marta Ortega Pérez and she’s the youngest daughter of Amancio Ortega, the world’s 11th richest person and reclusive founder of Inditex, the parent company of a portfolio of world-famous high street brands including Zara, Massimo Dutti, Uterque, Stradivarius and Bershka. In her spare time enjoys a passion for horseriding and languages.To a casual observer, the elegant blonde woman in a caramel turtleneck watching Madrid Horse Week from a private box could be any high-flying member of Spanish society. Since then, she has worked her way up, most recently working on Zara’s brand image, and
She has worked for Inditex since the age of 23, when she landed a role as shop assistant in a London store. “The strength and adaptability of the business model and the excellent performance of our creative, sales and operating teams are driving that differentiation forward, underpinned by a strategic focus on innovation, digitalisation and sustainability,” he said in a statement.īorn in 1984 in Vigo, Spain, Ms Ortega Pérez is the only child of the Inditex’s founder and his second wife, Flora Pérez. He added the welcome results were thanks to a “well-differentiated model that is delivering strongly”. Picture: iStockĬEO Garcia Maceiras told analysts, Inditex would keep raising prices in the next quarter, but that the focus on affordable fashion would remain. Zara’s parent company has enjoyed bumper results in the first quarter. The impressive results were attributed to a boom in fashion spending post-lockdown, with Zara attracting customers despite jacking up prices at a time when cost of living pressures were weighing heavily on the market.Īnd the profits would have been higher still – at €940 million ($A1.4 billion) – if it were not for Inditex’s €216 million ($A324 million) provision for estimated costs related to Ukraine and Russia for all of 2022. That’s a $A480.6 million increase from the same time last year – and while Ms Ortega Pérez was only at the helm for a third of that period, it’s a seriously solid beginning, especially given the brutal misgivings many expressed when her promotion was first revealed.ĭuring the first quarter, sales also jumped by 36 per cent to €6.7 billion ($A10 billion), and the company’s gross margin reached a decade high, with the news sending shares up by 5 per cent last week. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/ Getty Images North America/AFP Anna Wintour, Marta Ortega and Diane von Furstenberg attend the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund 2019 Awards at Cipriani South Street in New York City.
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