THE rise of Julia Haart has been quite incredible to watch.
She didn’t start her fashion career until she was 42, and since then she has become a multimillionaire.
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What is Julia Haart’s net worth?
A self-made woman, Julia left her Jewish church, kickstarted her shoe brand before collaborating with Italian luxury lifestyle company La Perla.
After being appointed creative director at the fashion house, she designed Kendall Jenner’s 2017 Met Gala dress that had 85,000 crystals on it.
Soon after, she met her now-husband Silvio Scaglia and they began working together at the Elite World Group, of which she is the CEO.
Julia has a reported $3.5M in the bank.
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What is Julia’s Netflix show about?
Netflix’s new reality series My Unorthodox Life gives an insight into her life now, and also how she previously spent 42 years living in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
As she got older, she grew uncomfortable with the community’s strict, conservative values – and in particular, watching her free-spirited daughter Miriam be forced to adhere to the same rules that she was.
In 2012, she decided to leave the community and launch a luxury shoe brand that kickstarted her career in fashion.
What else do we know about Julia?
Julia was born in 1971 in Moscow but, along with her parents, she fled Russia at the age of 3 and then settled in Monsey, New York, where they lived in an ultra-Orthodox community.
Leibov’s parents had seven more children, converting them to Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.
At 16 she had however been teaching herself how to sew and started buying fashion magazines.
But it wasn’t until she was 42 that she left her Orthodox world behind and became a designer, and the rest is history.
Who is Julia’s husband?
Julia is married to Silvio Scaglia, who is a Italian media and technological entrepreneur.
He is the founder of Fastweb, an Italian telecommunications company.
Silvio also founded Pacific Global Management Group (PGM), which is now Freedom Holding Inc.