The personal and professional partners in Dente & Cristina, the advertising and marketing agency, were found dead together in their Miami apartment.
Cristina grew up in the Astoria section of Queens, N.Y., and graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Dente, who was born in Brooklyn, moved to Dix Hills, N.Y., at 16 years old and then moved to Manhattan to attend the Tobe-Coburn School, becoming an intern at Harper’s Bazaar, where she got her first taste of styling.
Cristina’s nephew, Scott San Emeterio, said Cristina’s focus was on the business side, “but she had a pretty clear design vision: She was the epitome of sophistication and class and style with that Manhattan vibe,” he said. He recalled that Dente and Cristina would spend their time in Capri and Mallorca and would frequently go back and forth to Paris. “They lived that fashion lifestyle that everyone reads about,” he said. He said that the two were inseparable.
San Emeterio recalled when his aunt lived in Manhattan and she would invite him and his sister to the city as children, taking them to Broadway shows and FAO Schwarz. “She’d take us to lavish dinners and to the hottest, trendiest places,” he said. “We became close friends,” he continued. “They were here often for dinner. We laughed so much over the years. They lived lavishly and luxuriously with humility,” he said.
Philip Monaghan, a visual artist and branding executive, said, “I was shocked to learn of Barbara and Donna’s death and have been trying to make sense of it.”
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