Like her father – the man they call The Boss – Marta prefers to base herself in the shared open-plan space of the company offices. Her father may be The Boss but her first job was behind the tills in London’s King’s Road store Marta has been quietly learning the family business with stints in London, Barcelona and Shanghai, as well as Arteixo, the small town near La Coruña, Spain, where Inditex is headquartered. No wonder she’s a favourite with Hola!, Spain’s equivalent of celebrity magazine Hello!īut make no mistake, she is cut from the same cloth as the man in whose redoubtable footsteps she follows. She is still a keen equestrian and a regular front-row fashion show attendee. Glamorous – she once reportedly posed semi-naked on a Barbados beach for Italian fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti – her friends include Queen Letizia and Athina Onassis (granddaughter of the Greek shipping magnate). She enjoyed the benefits of a privileged upbringing (her father acquired a horse farm, largely to serve her passion for horses) and studied at a private Catholic school in Spain, then an international school in Switzerland before heading to London’s European Business School. Marta arrived first, though, in 1984, quickly becoming the apple of her father’s eye. Marta (pictured) who is a favourite with Hola!, is a keen equestrian and a regular front-row fashion show attendee Last week, Marta, who has two older siblings, was anointed successor to the Inditex throne (the company that owns Zara, Massimo Dutti, Uterque and other retail brands). Nevertheless, unless you are a reader of Spanish gossip columns, there’s a good chance you will never have heard of the woman who is now one of the most influential in fashion. Marta is now 37, extremely chic, impeccably well-connected and, by all accounts, hard-working. To be fair, the store assistant in question could probably have splashed out on a Rolex for every employee if she so wished, because Marta, then 23, was the youngest daughter of Amancio Ortega, the owner of the Zara empire and the world’s 11th richest person, with a fortune currently estimated in the region of £58 billion. Marta Ortega Perez, 37, (pictured) is going to replace Pablo Isla as chairman of Inditex in April, filling the position her publicity-shy father vacated back in 2011Įxcept for one thing: As this young woman completed stock checks and folded clothes, colleagues could not help but notice the rather expensive Rolex watch. Back then, with her impeccable, though Spanish-accented English, there was little to mark her out among the cosmopolitan array of employees taking their first steps on the ladder. Like many successful retail executives, Marta Ortega Perez started out on the shop floor 14 years ago at the King’s Road branch of Zara. Now there’s a new woman at the helm and while you might not have heard of her until now, you may well have some of the pieces she’s championed in your wardrobe Remember the black and white £40 polka dot dress that became a worldwide sellout in 2019, inspiring its own Instagram account? The store is Zara, the High Street brand that has become the largest clothes retailer in the world thanks to the retail giant’s skill at producing stylish, affordable fashion. Claudia Winkleman glittered on Strictly in this season’s sequined mini dress a few weeks ago and Holly Willoughby wears so many of their figure-hugging skirts on This Morning, it’s hard to keep track. The Duchess of Cambridge loves the store’s houndstooth dress so much that she’s worn it on two recent public engagements.
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