With then-wife Rosalia Mera, also a billionaire, he started making dressing gowns and lingerie in their living room.
Rosalia Mera, co-founder of Inditex with ex-husband Amancio Ortega, remains Spain's richest woman.
Mera and ex-husband Amancio Ortega founded the blockbuster Zara retail chain together, sewing dressing gowns and lingerie from their home.
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Hazel Croney who appeared in Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar, and even Alice Patten, the daughter of BBC chairman and Conservative peer Lord Patten.
Today the company Ortega and Mera founded is one of the globe's most successful retailers: Inditex, parent company of the Zara retail stores.
Mera dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a seamstress, then helped her then-husband make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home.
Inditex co-founder Rosalia Mera, whose son Marcos has inspired her activism.
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The son of a railway worker, he founded Inditex with former wife Rosalia Mera, also a billionaire, making lingerie and dressing gowns in their living room.
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Mera has invested money in causes dear to her heart: a marine fish farming group, a company that looks for cancer treatments in products from the ocean, and a maker of a fingerprinting system for newborns.
Crowned by a golden, winged headdress as detailed as the spires on Cambodia's famed carved temples, the radiant Meng Chan Chara portrayed Apsara Mera, who legend says mated with Prince Kambu to create the kingdom of Cambodia.
When, for the climactic union of Mera and Prince Kambu, portrayed by two female dancers (Chap Chamroeunmina and Chen Chansoda), actual physical contact occurred, the very act of touching was almost shocking given the measured formalities of Khmer classicism's unemphatic methods.
With the dancers' single-spire headdresses pointing heavenward like so many sharp beams, and the predominance of golden hues in their sarongs (for the goddesses) and draped trousers (for the gods), the finale of "The Legend of Apsara Mera" had the look of a vista of towering temples all animated as if visited by a gentle breeze.
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