![]() ![]() The tour takes in every department, from the pattern cutters to the design studios, and from the logistics teams to the in-house studio, which is popping with multiple ecommerce shoots. Her half-sister Sandra Ortega Mera has no part in the Inditex management, but acceded €6.3bn on her mother’s death in 2013. Ortega Pérez’s second husband, Carlos Torretta, a cute, pony-tailed former model agent and golf fanatic, is the head of communication at Zara (she has one child with him, and one with her ex-husband, Sergio Álvarez Moya, whom she divorced in 2015). Óscar Pérez Marcote is Zara’s managing director another uncle, Jorge Pérez Marcote, is the managing director of Massimo Dutti. Today, Flora Pérez represents the family’s 60 per cent share on the board. Born in 1984, she is the only daughter of Flora Pérez, the second wife of Amancio, who was still married to Rosalia Mera, his Zara co-founder, at the time. Ortega Pérez started working officially at Inditex 16 years ago although, arguably, she was in the business from the womb. And all my mum’s family work in the company.So we talked about the company a lot.” But also my mum has two sisters and four brothers. “Obviously, my father was working most of the time. She speaks quickly and confidently in English in a low and throaty voice. In person she is friendly, fun and courteous she’s also striking-looking in the flesh. We are eating lunch at the Inditex headquarters, following an extensive, multi-department Zara tour. “When I was a kid, my mum was doing the women’s collections for Zara,” says Ortega Pérez of her first consciousness of the business. It’s like Succession but with friendly Spanish people, delicious food and better clothes. ![]() “It’s a different generation and a different time,” says Ortega Pérez of her father’s legacy © David Simsįamily is huge at Inditex. This charismatic yet soft-spoken host was tipped as heir to his retail dynasty. Her name was Marta Ortega Pérez, the daughter of the Inditex and Zara co-founder, Amancio Ortega Gaona, whose personal wealth is estimated to be around $77.7bn. The centre of the party gravitated around a chic, rather grave-looking thirtysomething woman with a choppy bob and heavy brows. The room had a rare intoxicating quality, the sense that everyone was here. Photographers – Inez & Vinoodh, Craig McDean and David Sims – chatted to models, editors and stylists associated with the world’s most esteemed newspapers and magazines. Here, in dusky candlelight, stood the nexus of the fashion industry. Another cocktail evening during shows, we shrugged, but went along to check things out. Charlotte Gainsbourg was launching a denim collaboration with Zara, hosting an evening at Hôtel Particulier Solférino in Saint-Germain. It was during the spring-summer season of collections, and a week of parties in a rare pandemic lull. I got the sense something had happened about 18 months ago in Paris. Sometimes power transfers happen slowly – less a regime change than the steady accretion of quiet power.
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