José de Zamora began at Paul Poiret's, for whom he designed many models often unjustly attributed to Poiret. From the 1920s, he developed his talent for the Casino de Paris, the Bataclan, the Concert Mayol, the Palace, the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère. In the 1930s he returned to Spain for the civil war. He reappeared in 1940 at the Casino de Paris until 1961 and at the Mogador. In the mid-1960s he returned to Spain.