Silvia Tcherassi
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Silvia Tcherassi is a Colombia
n fashion designer from Barranquilla
. She is also the designer and owner of the Tcherassi Hotel in Cartagena de Indias, a renovated 250 year old colonial mansion, containing over 3000 plants.
Inspired primarily by Giorgio Armani
, Tcherassi has been described as "revolutionizing the Latin American fashion scene in a definitive way." Elle
has described her dresses as "tempting". She once said, "My creations are absolutely designed to serve a woman, from 18 to 50 years old." Her dresses have been worn at events all over the world, gracing the catwalks of Milan, Paris and New York. Her dresses have been worn by the likes of models Tala Restrepo, Tuti Barrera, Camila Barrenche and Catalina Acosta and Jordania
, Leila Cobo
, Soraya
, Shakira
, Hillary Clinton and Cecilia Boloco.In 1997, an international jury, invited by the magazine Semana Moda, awarded Tcherassi and Estudio Basico the prize of the Best Colombian Designers.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n fashion designer from Barranquilla
Barranquilla
Barranquilla is an industrial port city and municipality located in northern Colombia, near the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Atlántico Department, it is the largest industrial city and port in the Colombian Caribbean region with a population of 1,148,506 as of 2005, which makes it Colombia's...
. She is also the designer and owner of the Tcherassi Hotel in Cartagena de Indias, a renovated 250 year old colonial mansion, containing over 3000 plants.
Inspired primarily by Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear. He is known today for his clean, tailored lines. He formed his company, Armani, in 1975, and by 2001 was acclaimed as the most successful designer to come out of Italy, with an annual turnover of $1.6 billion and a...
, Tcherassi has been described as "revolutionizing the Latin American fashion scene in a definitive way." Elle
Elle
Elle may refer to:*Elle, Central African Republic*Elle , a fashion publication*Ellé, a river in France*Elle , a female given name*Elle , a Sri Lankan game similar to baseball*Ælle of Sussex, a Saxon king...
has described her dresses as "tempting". She once said, "My creations are absolutely designed to serve a woman, from 18 to 50 years old." Her dresses have been worn at events all over the world, gracing the catwalks of Milan, Paris and New York. Her dresses have been worn by the likes of models Tala Restrepo, Tuti Barrera, Camila Barrenche and Catalina Acosta and Jordania
Jordânia
Jordânia is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara. As of 2007 the population was 10,751 in a total area of 549 km²....
, Leila Cobo
Leila Cobo
Leila Cobo is a Colombian television show host, a novelist, a pianist, and a journalist. She is noted for her coverage of Latin American music scene in America for magazines like Billboard, newspapers like Miami Herald and TV shows like Estudio Billboard on V-me.-Personal Life:Cobo was born in...
, Soraya
Soraya (musician)
Soraya was an American singer/songwriter, guitarist, arranger and record producer.A successful Colombian music star, she had two number-one songs on Billboard's Latin Pop Airplay charts...
, Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
, Hillary Clinton and Cecilia Boloco.In 1997, an international jury, invited by the magazine Semana Moda, awarded Tcherassi and Estudio Basico the prize of the Best Colombian Designers.