![]() ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play I have found that the home-building process can be wonderful when all parties are in sync with one another, including designers and their clients alike. I have always felt passionate about interior design and believe it should be in constant harmony with the architecture. My professors always called me out for designing the interiors, telling me that it wasn’t necessary. During my studies, I gravitated toward interior design so much that I began creating design concepts for the interiors of my architecture projects. In my second year, I befriended the son of the dean of the architecture program and was curious to see what architecture was all about. I decided to study business since I knew this was something that would help me in the future. I graduated early at 16 after being homeschooled and immediately enrolled in Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. If I can get them off the street to do this, it'll bring out the creative side of people who are doing no good.House Beautiful: How did you each get into interior design?Įilyn Jimenez: Originally, I wanted to become a lawyer with the eventual goal of becoming a judge. I've got to do it first and then they can all go and do it. I want to spell it out but the minute I spell it out, it's just going to be a major trend. ![]() "Oh, the thought has gone through my mind but to be honest, I need too many machines." And she confides: "I'm cooking up some stuff for later. She has this amazing, creative mind - I still remember the wrap-around skirt and the wrap-around shorts." Would Alvos ever consider designing swimwear again? She put Tauranga on the map and people became more aware of Tauranga being a beach place because of Expozay. "Judy has always been right out there showing the world how it is. "We were the chickie-babes," she says of their sun-kissed days at Mount College. Her friend of 48 years, Barbara Strange, says "Jude" is "an original and a classic". It was too massive a contract."Įxpozay was sold to investment company Hellaby Holdings in 1996 before being sold to Bendon in 2001. We would have had to have 500,000 units per style. The whole distribution network, the whole thing, was too big and we had to turn it down."Ī hungry little monster Does she regret it? ![]() When the movie was released in different countries we would have had to have thousands and thousands of units per size, per colour, and had to have it in all the countries. They were solid and sheer and they were top sellers as well. "There were three styles they wanted and they were pretty sexy. We ended up flying to London to the James Bond studio. It was when James Bond contacted us for the three suits that they saw wanted for the James Bond movie A View to a Kill (1985). What was Alvos' proudest moment? "Our proudest moment was really scary. Miami picked Expozay up for their cellophane suit - "see-through and wet". In those days Alvos was not only a fashion victim - her words - but juggling motherhood with appointments with international buyers.īuyers from Japan and Italy were coming to Tauranga. Yeah, I think people think 'who the hell is that?'. "When you go to the supermarket in silver go-go boots, silver plastic, chain-mail mesh and you change nappies in the back of a Porsche. "Well probably, because I was pretty out there," she says. But at the height of her success, surely people recognised her all the time? She's stayed out of the limelight for 10 years, having sold the business and only recently come out of retirement. The label, also featuring lingerie, ski wear and streetwear, was modelled by supermodel Elle Macpherson.Īlvos is reasonably modest about her success, saying she's quite shy. It was sold in some of the world's most exclusive department stores and worn by Princess Diana - Alvos knows this because Diana was photographed wearing a slinky, black Expozay one-piece. Expozay featured on the covers of Vogue, Dolly, Cleo and Sports Illustrated. ![]() Her multicoloured swimwear label, Expozay, became an international phenomenon over the 27 years that she, Tony Alvos, and Bryan Potter, built the brand. Alvos, maiden name Scrivener, is one of Tauranga's most successful business entrepreneurs and a New Zealand fashion pioneer. ![]()
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