1. Alan Faena is a member of the Tate International Committee and the New Museum Leaders Council.
12 Facts About Alan Faena
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Alan Faena previously founded Via Vai in 1985, an Argentine fashion label, and worked as a fashion designer.
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In 1985, Faena followed in his parents footsteps into the textile industry and founded the fashion label Via Vai at age 19.
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Alan Faena launched the brand with 50 colored shirts he funded himself.
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Alan Faena was a fashion designer for over ten years before beginning a career in real estate development in 2000.
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Alan Faena partnered with Len Blavatnik, Philippe Starck and Foster + Partners to redevelop abandoned docklands in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Alan Faena expanded his brand to Miami Beach with a $1 billion project to develop a six block waterfront property.
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Construction on the Miami Beach Alan Faena District began in 2013.
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Alan Faena was married to Ximena Caminos, the couple having a son together.
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Alan Faena crashed Grace Goldsmith's mother's birthday party at Saxony Bar in May 2021, where he met Grace.
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On 5 November 2017, the Paradise Papers, a set of confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, revealed that Alan Faena was director and CEO of half a dozen offshore companies in Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands.
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Alan Faena appears with bank accounts in Luxembourg and the Isle of Man, linked to different hotels and real estate projects in Puerto Madero.