The fashion giant started out in a city in Spain Curiously
The fashion giant is known for its stylish womenswear, as well as accessories and some beauty products, and has been a high street staple in the UK for years. But, it wasn't always called Zara, and actually used to be named after a hit film from the 1960s, the Daily Star reports.
Despite having the moulds for the original name, quick-thinking Ortega fiddled with the letters and spelled out the name Zara – and the rest is history. As the story goes, the extra 'a' came from an additional set of letters that had already been moulded for the company. "However, Zorba the Greek was quite the popular film, as two blocks away there was a bar with the same name. The owner of the bar came over to Ortega's clothes shop to tell him that it would be too confusing to have two Zorbas in the same town.
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