The popular high-street brand is renowned for its stylish clothes, trendy accessories and affordable beauty products - making it a staple in the UK for years. Despite being loved by many, what some people don’t know is that Zara used to have a different name.
In fact, the store in Liverpool ONE announced this week it is set to undergo a major expansion, almost doubling in size, to accommodate new facilities and technologies. Despite having the moulds for the original name, quick-thinking Ortega fiddled with the letters and spelt 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 a popular film, as there was a bar with the same name two blocks away. 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.