Carmen "Sita" Murt (; 1946 – 1 December 2014) was a

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fashion designer and businesswoman. Her name, Sita, was a diminutive form of Carmencita, a diminutive of her legal first name, Carmen.

Biography

Murt was born in 1946 as the daughter of the owner of a

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, and belonged to the third generation of a textile industry

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in Igualada. At an early age, she used to collect small pieces of leather at the family factory, which she tried to use for creating pieces of clothing. She studied at the Sarrià School of Textile Design.Profile
fashionfromspain.com; accessed 24 January 2018. She married Toni Esteve Enrich, manager of the Esteve Aguilera company, founded in 1924, and incorporated as SA in 1965. After some years, when her kids had grown, she started being involved in the design of products, mainly

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jerseys. She created her own designs. The untimely death of her husband Toni in 1984 changed her plans. Her father-in-law decided to appoint her as the company manager. From 1989 onward, the company attended many

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s to present the new collections, including Salons Gaudí in

, Pasarela Cibeles in

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, Bread & Butter in Germany and Barcelona,

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in Barcelona, Premium (

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), Gallery (

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), Coterie (New York City) and Modefabriek, Who's Next and Paris sur Mode (Paris). The company replaced the original brand Esteve, to Sita Murt, and opened several direct stores and an

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in Igualada. Her designs are marketed by the company ''Esteve Aguilera SA,'' which produces more than 200,000 jerseys and other pieces of clothing per year, Murt died of cancer on 1 December 2014, aged 68.

Awards

*''Premio al Mérito Exportador'' (2002) from the

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. *Award "Barcelona es moda" for business initiative (2008) *Calderera de honor de

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(2010).

References

External links

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