When you are out of the orbit of the Andalusian fairs, like me for example, it is very striking to know that there are also fashions in this Farala costumes, that it is not an attire anchored in some unfindable point of time that clones itself same without solution of continuity.

No way.

Not only does the flamenco dress evolve, but it almost-almost changes every season.

Forgive me what seems like a digression when starting an obituary, but everything has a reason. And the object of this article is

Lina, Marcelina Fernández,

a woman who invented the faralaes costume 'à la page', a woman who disappears but not so much, because it has long since become a myth.

Isabel Pantoja,

who sweats affection in the photo on these lines, not only entrusted her with many batas de cola. Also the most important queue of his life, that of his wedding with Paquirri. It was seven meters tall.

White, in any case, was always one of Lina's favorite colors, whether there was a wedding or not, and she dressed many posh flamenco women with them from her business Lina Sevilla, which she opened with her husband, Paco Montero, in 1960 in Triana . In fact, one of the most beautiful that

Grace Kelly

ever made was worn by

Grace Kelly

in April 1966, when with

Rainier of Monaco she

traveled to Seville to visit the fair with an exceptional cicerone: the

Duchess of Alba,

another regular at Lina's needles. . By the way, there was no room for more 'crème' at the Fair that year, because there was also

Jackie Kennedy,

one year already the president's widow. The 'Hello' did not know where to look.

Grace Kelly on her trip to Seville in 1966. At the request of the Duchess of Alba, at the Fair she wore a dress made by Lina.

Back in those days when consumption was only a matter of four cats, Lina knew very well that having the jet set in your pocket (or among the steering wheels, we would say) was a much safer investment for the future than dressing generations of flamingos in tablaos (and the jet set advertised you for free, this is so).

For this reason, when in 1968 he received a commission from the Spanish Royal Household, he knew that he had reached a place of his own, in the heights.

The then

princess Sofía

asked him for a suit to walk through the Fair with all the laws. And all those of the law were a horse carriage and a white suit with red polka dots, a shawl and a crimson flower in her hair. The dress, full of grace (it had three starched ruffles that gave it a certain pop air), made it clear that Lina was not a simple maker of dresses for faralaes. Lina 'dictated' how the faralaes should be each season.

From his workshop, which he directed for more than 50 years, batas de cola came out tirelessly that marked an era on myths such as

Rocío Jurado, Marifé de Triana

or

Juana Reina

and a guideline to follow for all the women who year after year dressed to celebrate the fairs.

Even

Suri Cruise

had a Lina Sevilla dress, bought by her father during the filming of one of his impossible missions.

Her latest collection was presented by Lina in 2020. Life had also given her to have six children, two of whom, her daughters

Milagros

and

Rocío

, currently run the family business and the pride of a brand with so much to tell.

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