Jazmín Chebar

{{Short description|Argentine artist (born 1973)}}

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Jazmín Chebar (born 1973 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine fashion designer.{{cite web|url=http://www.foodandfashion.eu/article-35253988.html |title=Buenos Aires designer: Jazmin Chebar, créatrice |work=Food and Fashion |date=28 August 2009 |accessdate=1 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218222220/http://www.foodandfashion.eu/article-35253988.html |archivedate=18 February 2014 }} She owns an eponymous fashion line which retails "relaxed and formal clothes in a French-style boutique".{{cite book|last=Froggatt|first=Charles|title=A Hedonist's Guide to Buenos Aires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLtMAJoKexEC&pg=PA176|date=January 2007|publisher=A Hedonist's guide to...|isbn=978-1-905428-08-3|page=176}}

Biography

Her parents owned the boutique "La Clocharde", a notable fashion landmark in Buenos Aires.{{cite news|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/476746-cuatro-anos-despues-reabre-la-clocharde|title=Cuatro años después, reabre La Clocharde|newspaper=La Nación|date=27 February 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014|language=Spanish}} After finishing school, Chebar moved to New York City, where she attended Parsons The New School for Design, obtaining degrees in Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising in 1995. She then worked for Valentino and Donna Karan.{{cite web|url=http://www.blocdemoda.com/2013/09/la-moda-de-la-calle-en-el-verano-2014.html|title=La moda de la calle en el Verano 2014 de Jazmín Chebar|publisher=Bloc de Moda|date=2 September 2013|accessdate=1 February 2014|language=Spanish}} Chebar created the costume design for Ashes of Paradise.

In March 1997, she opened her first store in Buenos Aires. Two years later, she opened a second store and began exporting to the United States. In 1999, she was a guest at the Paris Fashion Week. In March 2002, she began a partnership with the fashion entrepreneur Claudio Drescher{{cite book|title=Para ti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMAwAAAAYAAJ|year=2006|language=Spanish|page=97}} to create exclusive stores in Latin America, including La Plata, Córdoba, Mendoza, as well as in Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Bolivia. In 2023, she launched an upcycle collection with Erica Vega.{{Cite web |last=Iñigo |first=Ayelén |date=2023-11-28 |title=Jazmín Chebar y Futuro Verde lanzan en conjunto una colección "Upcycling" de triple impacto |url=https://co.fashionnetwork.com/news/Jazmin-chebar-y-futuro-verde-lanzan-en-conjunto-una-coleccion-upcycling-de-triple-impacto,1581014.html |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=FashionNetwork.com |language=es-CO}}

The Telegraph tagged her "the Stella McCartney of BA".{{cite news|title=The Latin lap of luxury|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/734623/The-Latin-lap-of-luxury.html|accessdate=2 February 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=February 22, 2006}}

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