'I was 43 and knew nothing about the world,' Haart told People of her exit from her onetime community. There Haart met and married La Perla owner (and founder of Italian telecomm giant Fastweb) Silvio Scaglia now, they co-own Elite World Group, a talent and modeling conglomerate whose client roster includes Kendall Jenner, Rita Ora, Adriana Lima, and Willow Smith, among others.īut as her professional fortunes rose, Haart was experiencing culture shock. Her innovative designs caught the eye of La Perla, where she was then brought on as the brand’s creative director. Haart launched her fashion career with a namesake shoe line, partnering with ski boot engineers and using insulation gel designed for NASA space stations to formulate an ultra-comfortable high heel. I literally packed my and walked out the door with her.” They were doing to her what they had done to me-trying to push her down and mold her into that flat person that they could disappear. Haart credits her daughter Miriam with emboldening her to leave everything she’d ever known, saying, “She just wouldn’t conform. To become a fashion mogul, Haart first had to leave her fundamentalist community, where she had grown increasingly uncomfortable with the conservative principles and practices. And if you love clothing and color, that means you’re too focused on the physical, you’re not thinking about your soul. “The only point of clothing is to hide you. “I’d been making my own clothes, even though in my community fashion is a giant no-no,” Haart told The New York Times. Haart created a shoe brand in her mind and started sewing at age sixteen, despite admonitions from her community. In her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, Haart sold insurance on the side while caring for her children, though even then, her fashion sensibility was already forming.

If you’re not plugged into the fashion world, you may not have heard of Haart, but her star has been rising for years. Haart’s unconventional path to heading a global talent empire is the subject of My Unorthodox Life, a new Netflix docu-series chronicling the glitz and glamour of her work, along with the ups and downs of raising four children. Today, she’s the co-owner and chief executive of modeling conglomerate Elite World Group, the founder of fashion brand e1972, and Netflix’s latest reality star. Eight years ago, Julia Haart was a homemaker and mother of four living in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City.

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