Amaya Arzuaga (born in
Lerma (
Burgos
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Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of ...
), in 1970), is a
Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
designer
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In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
.
She studied in the
UPM and in 1992 she finished
Fashion Design
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and joined her parents' enterprise,
Elipse
Elipse ( sr-Cyrl, Елипсе; trans. ''The Ellipses'') were a Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1962. The band were one of the pioneers of the Yugoslav rock scene.
Elipse initially performed beat music and rhythm and blues. With the ...
.
In 1994, she created her own firm. She sells and shows her collections regularly in international fashion fairs like Atmosphère (
Paris
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), Fashion Cotterie (
New York), Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (
Milan
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), Pasarela Cibeles (
Madrid
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), Passarel·la Gaudí (
Barcelona
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), and London Fashion Week (
London
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). Amaya Arzuaga has more than 200 boutiques in Spain.
Prizes
*Magacines Telva, Elle, Woman
*Empresaria joven de Expansión
*Arte de Vivi
*Primer Premio Cibeles
*Medalla de oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes de 2005
External links
Website*
Biography (in Spanish)
1970 births
Living people
Spanish women fashion designers
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