DIARIO DE SEVILLA - The Holos Hotel blanket wears

In a setting as modern as the Hotel Holos, situated in the heart of the Heliópolis, an original passage of the mantillas has been celebrated, prelude to the start of Holy Week. Seven model youths, students of the Conservatory, paraded in an unscripted runway in the gardens of the hotel dressed with mantillas, four of them made by Craft Textile and three belonging to the family Carmen Ortega, owner of the Holos. One of Carmen's mantillas belonged to Eugenia of Montijo, wife of Napoleon III, and was acquired by the grandfather of Carmen, antiquarian, in Paris. They did not leave out decorations, the hotel was adorned with carnations by the Nao de China, or setting the scene, with a sensual choreography accompanied by the guitar of Jorge Mateos. Among the assistants was the designer Toni Benítez, who will be responsible for offering the following April 26 the prize for the best mantilla in the XXIV Exhibition of Couplings Fair in the Real Armory. The Holos is located in a regionalist style house built in 1929 as a residential complement to the buildings of the World's Fair, reformed with an innovative architectural project of the study MGM, that combines design and comfort. Its seven rooms favor personailized treats, among other creative details of the owner, like written cards and origami figures that she makes and places each night on the beds, small gestures that are intended to wink at the clients. "The same as a mother gives a good night kiss to her children, I want to entertain my guests with a symbolic kiss", indicates Carmen Ortega. "And it seems to work, because eighty percent of the clients that have lodged here return".