And now, she is the co-owner and CEO of Elite World Group, and one of the most powerful people in the fashion industry. A year later, she became creative director of La Perla, the world-leading lingerie brand. Within a week of her escape, Julia started a shoe brand, and within nine months she was at Paris for fashion week. At the age of forty-two, she finally mustered the courage to flee the fundamentalist life that was strangling her soul. She started clandestinely selling life insurance to save her "freedom" money. Giving any thought to one's appearance beyond that is considered sinful, an affront to God. In the ultra-orthodox world, clothing has one purpose: to cover the body, head to toe. When no one was looking, she'd sneak looks at fashion magazines and sketch designs for the clothes she dreamed about wearing in the world beyond her orthodox suburb. She knew that if she didn't find a way to leave, her daughters would be forced into the same unending servitude that had imprisoned her. Eventually, when Julia's youngest daughter Miriam started to question why she wasn't allowed to sing, run, or ride a bike, Julia reached a breaking point. For the next twenty-three years, he would rule her life. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely knew. A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe designer, to CEO and co-owner of the modeling agency Elite World GroupĮver since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart's life-what she wore, what she ate, what she thought-was controlled by the dictates of ultra-orthodox Judaism.
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