Lauren Santo Domingo is one of the most popular and richest Businesswoman who was born on February 28, 1976 in United States, United States. Her wedding to Andrés Santo Domingo in Cartagena, Colombia on January 8, 2008 was deemed “the wedding of the year” by Vogue on the cover of that year’s March issue, and a ten-page spread of the nuptials was shot by Arthur Elgort and featured in the magazine. Her nine bridesmaids each wore a dress created by a different designer and Santo Domingo wore two custom dresses by Olivier Theykens for Nina Ricci. A portrait of Santo Domingo in her wedding dress was the cover image of Vogue Weddings: Brides, Dresses, Designers, a coffee table book edited by Hamish Bowles and Vera Wang.
Considered one of the “100 most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years” by the New York Observer, Santo Domingo was inducted into Vanity Fair’s International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 2017.
Lauren began her career in the fashion closet at Vogue as a Fashion Assistant. She worked her way up to Associate Fashion Editor and later Sittings Editor, focusing on the American designer market. She then worked as the PR director for Paris-based label J. Mendel helping to launch the brand’s ready-to-wear collection. She later led the PR department of Carolina Herrera for the Puig Group. Santo Domingo returned to Vogue in 2005 as a contributing editor, where she remains as of 2018.
Santo Domingo, the daughter of Ronald V. Davis, the former CEO of The Perrier Group of America, and Judy Davis, an artist, grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. As a model in her teens, she appeared in Sassy frequently, as well as in several commercials, including a Japanese TV spot with Brad Pitt. She attended the Kent School and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in history in 1998. After her graduation, she moved to Paris.
As a former American Vogue editor, Lauren set out to create a platform that would allow women to shop from complete designer collections – a benefit only offered to editors or stylists at the time. In February 2011, Lauren launched Moda Operandi with Aslaug Magnusdottir, revolutionizing the fashion industry and the way women shop. The company now has more than 300 employees across eight offices globally, and has raised nearly $300m in funding from top-tier investors.
