was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since her teens, Lydia's fate with beauty, fashion and the limelight began to unfold when she attended a beauty pageant as a spectator and, unexpectedly, was crowned Puerto Rico’s Beauty Queen! Fashion became her passion and she was quite creative since early on.
In 1971, Lydia moved to London, UK, where she studied fashion at the London School of Fashion. At that time, Lydia was traveling extensively as a journalist.
After several people saw the dress and asked to buy her extraordinary dress, Lydia created her own fashion company, to launch what she named the INFINITE DRESS. A dress designed to be worn in infinite ways (at least more than 100 different ways), according to the 1994 Latin Model Pageant’s were 72 young beauties wore the Infinite Dress in a variety of styles for their opening ceremony each one showing a different style.
Lydia Silvestry launched The Infinite Dress at a press gathering in London, on May 5th, 1976. Lydia opened offices in New York, Paris and London.
Soon after the launch, Vogue-England published the largest exposure ever given to a single garment, with Jerry Hall, the world’s top model at that time wearing the Infinite Dress.
Shortly thereafter, Lydia Silvestry began appearing on television, radio and print media interviews around the world promoting her Infinite Dress. Lydia's television debut was on “The Today Show” (NBC) where she demonstrated 25 changes of the “INFINITE DRESS” on live television in only 3 minutes. She was interviewed by Jane Pauley.
Some other television shows, Networks and Channels Lydia Silvestry appeared in are the following: NBC; Nationwide News, England, UK; BBC- Pebble Mill Show TV; London TV; City Live, Canada TV; Univision Network, Telemundo Network (Pedro Sevcec, De Mañanita, Cada Dia); America TEVE, A las Siete con Fernando, Quiéreme Descalzi, Caribe Vision, Shop Latino TV, Plum TV, Puerto Rico's channels 2, 4 and 6, as well as TV stations in Dallas, Texas, New York and Miami, Florida.
Some of the numerous magazines that have featured Lydia and the Infinite Dress are Vogue, Cosmopolitan Magazine (Latin America), Vanidades (USA and Latin America Magazine), Revista Imagen, Now, The Palm Beach Post, The American (England, UK), Miami Shore News, Mira Magazine (USA), The Sun (England, UK), Irish News (Ireland, UK), You Magazine (showing the dress at a Bukingham Palace party!), Vero Life Magazine (Vero Beach, Florida), Hometown News (Vero Beach, Florida), Primera Hora Newspaper (Puerto Rico), El Nuevo Dia Newspaper (Puerto Rico) Para Ti Magazine (Argentina), and The Straight Time (Singapore) amongst others.
Lydia Silvestry and the Infinite Dress also appeared at the “Latin Model Pageant” in 1994. All 72 model contestants were wearing the Infinite Dress, each in a different style.
Lydia’s Infinite Dress has been sold in some of the world’s best retail stores, including: Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue (on Fifth Avenue, NY), Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller, Sakowitz, Burdines (USA), Lucien Phillips in London, Antoinette Specialist Center in Singapore, Uomo Erre in Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, Lazarus, Nordstrom's and Velasco in Puerto Rico, several places in Paris as well as Japan, Australia, South Africa, and many more.
Presently, Lydia is engaged in her passion for writing and journalism. She recently finished her book, Lydia Silvestry’s Beauty Secrets. The book may be purchased through www.LydiaSilvestry.com. The book, which was inspired by her friends’ requests for her secrets on beauty, is an account of all her results based on years of research and experience. Among Lydia's loves are her two sons and grandson. Lydia also enjoys Pilates, preparing gourmet vegetarian recipes, and art.