bio
maria merak
Maria V Garcia De Olaortua is a Spanish fashion designer born July 19, 1989 in Barcelona, Spain. After few fine art and jewelry courses taken at Korea Town Art Academies and FIT in New York, Maria presented her very first designs at her only 19 years old. In 2010 her first jewelry collection and mixed media art collection was selected and enrolled at Parsons School of Design in New York City and at the same time she was actively assisting in the New York Art Scene and Art Exhibitions, worked for New York City based designers, and was the main researcher, assistant designers and buyer for the new concert attire for musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The cooperative project between the BSO and Parsons was started in 2012 to rethink the traditional tuxedos and black dresses of the concert hall. Derrick Cruz, threeASFOUR, Teen Vogue and and Vogue US where she quickly met some of the fashion world's most influential and inspiring mentors. After meeting her mentors she soon realized she would never look at things in the same way again, she soon learned she needed to keep translating her love and attention for detail towards her jewelry creation. In 2015, after graduating from Parsons form a BFA Interdisciplinary program in Integrated Design with specific focus in Fashion Design, the designer decided to abandon New York to devote herself to create her first collection of four delicate sapphire rings. "In a world filled by uncertainty, Love is the only assurance. If you make something with love it will be beautiful it will be true, and I like to be surrounded by beautiful things"