Eva Maria

Who is Eva Maria?

Eva Maria stu­died visual arts, but becau­se of her impa­tien­ce she ended up in dra­ping. She loves to bring together colours, pat­terns, sha­pes and tex­tu­re. She does­n’t really think in terms of fashion and sea­so­nal fashion trends. Rather in collec­tions which evo­ke a mood, whi­le having fun with the crea­tion pro­cess. Usually Eva falls in love with an extra­or­di­na­rily beau­ti­ful fabric that she hap­pens to find. Sin­ce she only works with a few metres of fabric, only a limi­ted num­ber of pie­ces are pro­du­ced. This desig­ner makes hand­ma­de, ori­gi­nal and colour­ful pie­ces in play­ful sha­pes. Crafts­manship of the highest order.

Eco materials?

Desig­ner Eva Maria pro­ces­ses was­te mate­rials from local desig­ners, but with ori­gi­nal woven in Italy, Por­tu­gal or Spain, into new designs. If tha­t’s not a good start! But she wants to go even further and is the­re­fo­re recently swit­ching to eco­lo­gi­cal subs­tan­ces and dyes. For her own designs, she has a limi­ted num­ber of meters of fabric prin­ted in a local com­pany on the bor­der of West and East Flan­ders. She does­n’t throw away the fabric lef­to­vers, but uses it to make scrun­chies and fra­grant laven­der bags.

Sizing?

Eva Maria does not belie­ve in ​“stan­dard” sizes, or a stan­dard body type. She pre­fers to design beau­ti­ful uni­que pie­ces without focu­sing on sizing and to let the clothes speak for them­sel­ves when they are tried on. With some of her pie­ces, such as her skirts, she only deve­lops 2 sizes with cle­verly desig­ned and well-thought-out adjus­ta­ble waist­bands. This allows women of dif­fe­rent body types to make their clothes their own and choo­se what makes them feel most com­for­ta­ble and con­fi­dent without chan­ging the look of the garment. 

Handmade in Belgium

All pie­ces are sewn by hand by the desig­ner her­self. She does­n’t outsour­ce anything to workshops. She belie­ves in crafts­manship and dura­bi­lity. Once a pie­ce is sold, the­re will never be another pie­ce like it. Eva Maria loves to tell her story through her clothes resul­ting in very per­so­nal uni­que pie­ces. She pre­fers to design in com­ple­te free­dom and shies away from bes­po­ke tai­lo­ring. Women of all sty­les and body types are, howe­ver, sure to find something in her collec­tion that will bring them hap­pi­ness and joy.

Summarised

Hand­ma­de ori­gi­nal pie­ces. Color­ful and play­ful sha­pes made from exclu­si­ve quirky fabrics. Sus­tai­na­ble cir­cu­lar Bel­gian fashion design.