No one would say that building a boat can be similar to designing a hat, but Isabel Terroso takes this idea away from anyone. A hunch led her to put her work aside and start a headdress course, where she learned to forge her first creation: a leaf-shaped beret. That beret led her to make her first order for a Chanel gala dinner, to Dior, and to dress Queen Letizia's head at the coronation of Charles III of England. In the video that heads this news, the founder of BALEL tells how the great opportunity arose that opened the doors of the red carpets for her.
The video that accompanies this piece is part of the EL PAÍS series
Reversibles
, stories of people who hide an extraordinary second life. In the first installment of this audiovisual format, Eduardo Blasco explains how, after his gold in the world rescue championship, he decided to intersperse the competitions with rescues in the Mediterranean: “The country that gave me the world medal stops me a year later for saving lives".