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Enrique Marzal

Spanish dressmaker (1940–2025)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ118591435 ↗
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Enrique Marzal Santafé (15 September 1940 – 6 June 2025) was a Spanish clothing designer and dressmaker.

Life and career

Marzal was born on 15 September 1940 in Valencia. His interest in clothing was born from a Valencian costume that his mother made for her daughter in 1946. From a young age he met Concha Piquer, whom he dressed. Marzal was linked to Casa Insa until 1972, when he became independent. He worked for the Spanish Royal Family and celebrities like Lola Flores, Carmen Sevilla, Norma Duval, Rocío Jurado, Lina Morgan and others.

Marzal celebrated his 80th birthday and golden business anniversary in 2021.

Marzal died on 6 June 2025, at the age of 84.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 2025, 1946, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-12-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Enrique, Marzal and Spanish providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Enrique Marzal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.