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Francesca Miranda

Francesca Miranda
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Born Francesca Miranda
(1957-08-05)August 5, 1957
San Salvador, El Salvador
Nationality Salvadoran
Occupation Fashion designer
Labels Francesca Miranda
FM Francesca Miranda

Francesca Miranda is a Salvadoran fashion designer. She sells her designs in Dubai, Russia, USA, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Colombia, Panama and El Salvador. She has dressed several celebrities such as Rebecca Mader, Sofia Milos, Andrea Minski, Elisabeth Röhm, Perrey Reeves, Shenae Grimes, Ashlan Gorse, Nadia Dawn, Shaun Toub's wife Lorena Toub, Teyonah Parris and Broderick Johnson's wife Jennifer. In 2015, Adele chose to feature one of her wedding dress designs in an article by Glamour magazine.

Miranda is one of five children of Gloria Gonzales de Miranda, an Ohioan entrepreneur of Spanish parents, and of Spanish-Italian lawyer and politician Ruy Cesar Miranda Lupone of an affluent family in the Central American country . One of her sisters is TV personality and philanthropist Olga Miranda.

Miranda studied fashion merchandising at University of South Florida and Lake Land College, both in Florida.

Miranda began to design under the Xango brand in 1995. Three years later she put her own name to her leading edge menswear designs. Having established herself as a menswear designer, in 2000 Miranda created City People, a range of clothes for women. City People has embroidery, fitted trousers and transparent blouses. Her 2001 collection was inspired by the works of the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez.

Miranda launched in 1994 a menswear casual line for department stores in Colombia. She has been invited to participate in Colombiamoda, Colombia’s fashion industry trade show. In 1997 she inaugurated her first boutique with her label, "Francesca Miranda" with a menswear line. In 2000 she expanded to women's wear when opening her flagship store in Barranquilla, Colombia where she sells both men and women’s Pret A Porter, and Evening wear lines.


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