FASHION DESIGNER OF THE MONTH
“GUIA MARTINOT T ” Guia Martinotti is a wellrounded Mktg Strategy Developer and Sales Manager with over 20 years of experience in the luxury fashion industry. As a Sales manager, she has worked for the top fashion luxury brands in the fashion industry with a strong record of achieving sales and business targets.
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uia, mostly known as NOOR DESIGN in Tanzania, was born in Italy and has lived all over Europe. She studied in Switzerland at Aiglon College and then moved to London for her psychology studies at UCL University. But life is always full of surprises and in 1999 she obtained a Masters in Marketing Communications, recognised by the International Advertising Association. She started her career doing Public Relations for the Alberta Ferretti Group, where she launched the first opening of the Narciso Rodriguez Flagship store in Milan. She has worked for brands such as John Richmond, Tod’s spa, Gianfranco Ferre and Prada, and for the last 10 years she has worked and still works as a freelance Senior Sales Manager for Mr. Tom Ford.
London, New York, Paris and Milan were her home for many years, fashion shows, press days, sale days, merchandising, pricing, personal shopping and so on.
Guia has always had a great love for Africa and at the age of 20 she founded VIKUA SRL, a beachwear brand handmade with local kikoys, produced in Kenya and exported to Europe. Today she is the President, Founder and Designer of Noor Design - Live. Love. Create - based in Dar Es Salaam.
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Dar Life I AUGUST 2022
Credit To Ingid Kim & Picture Courtesy of Noor Design
