ISEM Fashion Business School presented the portrait of its founder and first director, Covadonga O'Shea, at an event held on January 16 at the new headquarters of the University of Navarra in Madrid. The event was attended by various personalities from the publishing and business worlds, as well as O'Shea's colleagues and friends from her time at the head of the school.

Rector Alfonso Sanchez-Tabernero underlined the generosity of Covadonga, who will be the first alumna to join the pioneers who have built the University of Navarra, starting with Don Ismael Sanchez-Bella, the first rector, and Antonio Valero, the first director of IESE.

The author of the painting, Daniel Quintero, thanked Covadonga for her generosity in the creative process and emphasized the fusion produced in the portrait between naturalism and the cubist and pop inspiration of the background, which also introduces Covadonga's passage in Telva.

Words of gratitude

Covadonga O'Shea dedicated some emotional words of thanks to all those present and recalled the first steps of ISEM, "a project that was born with a vocation for international excellence".

"Life for me has not only been "a dream" as Calderón de la Barca said, but a series of opportunities, which based on a lot of enthusiasm and hard work, always as a team, have become this reality," Covadonga concluded before unveiling the painting that is already hanging in the Board Room of ISEM Fashion Business School.