Laura B

Laura Bor­to­lami was born in Rome in 1962. Her father is Ital­ian and her mother is Dutch – Indone­sian. She stud­ied uni­ver­sity at the “École de Tra­duc­tion et Inter­pre­ta­tion”, Gen­eve, Switzer­land, a course spe­cial­is­ing in econ­omy and law. A chance encounter with Cate­rina Sal­vador, Armani’s pri­mary assis­tant, led her to change direc­tion com­pletely and ded­i­cate her­self to fashion.

Laura began work­ing as a free­lance com­mer­cial for Gior­gio Armani in Milan in the Eight­ies. Then Gianni Ver­sace, Anna Moli­nari, and almost ten years for Dolce & Gab­bana. The expe­ri­ence of work­ing with some of the best design­ers in the world pre­pared Laura for her future enter­prise.
In the early Nineties, while liv­ing in Avi­gnon, South of France, after design­ing a small col­lec­tion of bags, hats and scarfs cre­ated from orig­i­nal 1920’s pieces, Laura applied the same pas­sion for the aes­thet­ics from the begin­ning of the cen­tury to jew­ellery. A mix of ‘bro­cantes’ vin­tage pieces ran per­fectly with the 1970’s revival tak­ing place at this time. Since each piece was unique, so was born the ‘Laura B Col­lec­tion Par­ti­c­ulière’. Right from the begin­ning the col­lec­tion attracted a very select market.

In 1995, Laura moved to Barcelona where she con­tin­ued to work for Dolce & Gab­bana. Laura B grew with new inter­na­tional clients and the acknowl­edge­ment of press. In 1999 she left Dolce & Gab­bana to ded­i­cate her­self to her own col­lec­tion.
Today Laura B includes not only jew­el­ery, but also belts and bags.

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