Amancio Ortega made his wealth after founding the Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories retail shops.

According to The Telegraph, he is currently the second richest man in the world.

While we have spoken about the 81-year-old billionaire here, here and here, this time around we are going to focus on his daughter, Marta Ortega.

The Telegraph calls her “most influential name in fashion you’ve never heard of” because, well, although her father – worth £65 billion (R1.1 trillion) – is the owner of the brand, she acts as a senior creative consultant on all Zara Woman collections.

Marta, 33, is also said to be the heiress of his empire.

Both The Telegraph and The Daily Mail were inspired to write about her after a rare sighting of the Ortega family on their £41.2 million (R680 million) super-yacht, Drizzle, in St Tropez over the weekend.

Although the pics aren’t the most exciting, here’s an insight into the lifestyle of the rich and famous:

Back to Marta:

Despite her wealth Ortega actually practices what she preaches, mixing her fully-stocked high street wardrobe with a few choice designer buys.

It’s thought that she’s the one, over her two siblings, who will take over the family business if her apparent-workaholic father ever retires, and she has been working her way up the ranks since beginning her career at the family firm as a shop girl in the Oxford Street store, during her Business Management studies in London.

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Her circle of friends includes Athena Onassis and Spain’s Queen Letizia (who is regularly spotted in Zara), and she is an established show-jumper.

 

Marta married fellow champion rider Sergio Alvarez Moya in a private ceremony on her father’s estate in 2012, but:

[A]fter splitting some months ago, she is now in a relationship with Carlos Torretta (above), a model agent who establishes deals for Kendall Jenner and Adriana Lima in Europe.

Torretta is the son of Roberto Torretta, the Argentinian designer and vice president of ACME , the Association of Fashion Creators of Spain and Carmen Echevarría, a woman who counts Jane Birkin among the clients at her Madrid boutique, meaning that this new relationship would only serve to seal the credentials of the first family of Spanish fashion.

With Zara’s sales hitting £535.2 million (R8,9 billion) in the UK alone last year, as well as Marta’s slow but steady rise in her father’s company and the Ortega family’s notorious low-key public profile, she really could be the most influential name in fashion you’ve never heard of.

Until now, that is.

[source:thetelegraph&dailymail]