ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Gelila Assefa Puck is an internationally known designer of fine couture gowns and couture handbags, and an award-winning international philanthropist who was born and schooled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Her life story and business success has been featured on CNN and in other major publications. She is now based in Southern California where she lives with her husband, super chef Wolfgang Puck, and their two young sons. Wolfgang puck age
Gelila’s couture fashion brand, Gelila Style, is rooted in her East African heritage. As a young child, she displayed an early and great passion for fashion – first evidenced, perhaps, by the Catholic school reprimands she received for embroidering her grade school uniforms.
With determination to succeed after completing high school, she came to the United States to study business and fashion – and then worked her way through the tough Los Angeles Trade-Technical College which supplies L.A.&rs
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