"...Creating this glamorous couture empire all on her own, tragic glamour is an inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere. Similarly, when I need motivation with my own company in the making, it is really comforting to see that all the hardships and challenges I endure are not being tolerated alone. I look up to people like tragic glamour because it makes me never want to give up. The message is simple: follow your dreams and anything is possible…and Tragic Glamour should be the poster face for this exact saying."
-Marialia of www.marialiaxo.com
Design Philosophy:
My design is not just a state of mind or a specific look, it’s how I express myself visually. It’s one of the few ways I’ve found to communicate my vision of beauty to others. It’s as if each design is one part of this spectacular world i’ve created and as I grow, it slowly reveals itself to people around me. A world where everything is designed and nothing is “common” or boring. Architecture is organic and inspired by Art Nouveau. Furniture is functional but always made slightly askew to give you a feeling of a twisted wonderland. Art and design merge, as everything is made for a reason but the reason isn’t clear to everyone viewing it. Colors are bold and over saturated as they spill over contrasts of black and white accents. There is a right and a wrong but this world lives in the grey area cause it’s hard for outside influence to understand it. Nothing is impossible and hard work isn’t very hard at all. My senses of things are dulled for reasons I don’t know which is why I’m not happy or comfortable unless I’m living in an extreme. I’m not satisfied with anything unless there is both a tragic element and a glamorous one. The yin yang balance of destroying something beautiful, but still keeping it beautiful is my overall vision of beauty. Keeping that in mind while creating my designs and art is what keeps me going and makes me satisfied with my end result. While this balance is the style of my vision, the look is a little more complicated. While I can never do just one thing, I realized that the best way to describe me is “I do a lot”. I do a lot of things at once. I have the tv on while I’m playing music, I have to do the styling, makeup and photography of a photo shoot and I also have to have a lot going on in my designs. Creating something simple is just not my style and when I need to, I corrupt it as much as possible. In my world, there is no such thing as comfy clothing or jeans and graphic t-shirt days. If I had my way i’d wear crazy couture clothing reminicient of Rococo or Victorian dresses that have been torn and done up with ribbon and lace with lavish hair and makeup. I would have more time in a day than i’d ever need and I would never worry about my life as a melting clock. This world is my vision and my goal is to impart my vision of beauty onto the world in every form I see fit.
