The rising Spain designer who brought haute couture back to his home village

Amidst a pandemic, Nicolas Montenegro returned to his village surrounded by asparagus farms to launch a new fashion label. Photo: AFP

Trained in Milan, up-and-coming Spanish designer Nicolas Montenegro has dressed Beyonce and Kylie Minogue, but with the pandemic, he's gone back home to his village to launch his own brand.

Thanks to the internet and air links "there is no need to live in a big city", the lean 31-year-old said at his atelier in Lantejuela, a village of some 3,800 residents about an hour's drive from the southern city of Seville.