Carmen Lomana will enjoy the most family-friendly night of the year as tradition dictates, with her family. She confesses that she is highly imbued with the spirit of Love Actually and for days now she has had her house completely decorated: “I like a very traditional Christmas and I put up the Nativity scene with the child, the Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph… We are celebrating the birth of Jesus and the beginning of the Christian era, although there are people who seem not to want to find out, they are only interested in the tree and the gifts,” protests the collaborator of Espejo Público, Telemadrid, Kiss FM and La Razón.
Having dinner as a family does not require you to put on an apron. Carmen has chosen to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas at the Lodge hotel, an extension of the Marbella Club in Sierra Nevada. “I will be with my brother, his wife and some friends. Then I will go down to my house, in Marbella, which I haven’t been to since the summer. I will also spend New Year’s Eve in Marbella, attending a house that throws a party.” He still doesn’t know what he will have for dinner on the 24th, but he is confident that he will like it given the excellence of the hotel (“I don’t know about stuffed turkey, whatever we want because it is a fabulous hotel. It will be crazy, for sure”) and he will sing Christmas carols: “They remind me a lot of when I was little, my father would put us next to the Baby Jesus.”
Lomana has just celebrated its annual sale of haute couture garments (Loewe, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel…) for charitable purposes, this time for the Nupa foundation and to pay for the studies of a girl who needs it. A tradition of eleven or twelve years: “This market thing occurred to me because I saw the need there is, more and more people go to soup kitchens and there is less and less money to pay for them. I thought what I could do and it occurred to me to sell some of my clothes
