Some examples include partnering with various national and international events happening in Miami, Art Basel events, boat shows, and more. In your words, how can the Miami fashion industry pivot in order to evolve and better itself?Ĭreating a community to help and support each other is a big thing.Įvents where fashion and art meet to beautify, entertain and promote life in Miami, and having a platform to promote local artists and designers helps, too. One has to feel in order for the inspiration to come through. I think it’s necessary to put pressure on yourself. It’s been hard at times, and I have had to come up with my best creations. The city is quickly growing, so you feel that push in the back of your neck to “Grow or Die”, which gives a creative like me that exhilarating feeling of giving the best of me in efforts to create something that’s never existed before. The art community has grown a bit over the last few years, which is quite inspiring. I can say that Miami has a positive energy towards fashion that is creativity-inducing. In the past, the benefits would be the cost of running it, which is not the case now. What are the benefits of starting a fashion business in Miami versus New York, Los Angeles, or Paris? Thank you for holding this space for all of us. I feel the energy flowing through our group. Actually, it is heartwarming every time I receive a message in the Mana Fashion community chat. I think the future of business in general is to come together in synergetic relationships and help each other. How can the Mana Fashion Services community help overcome some of these challenges? Hiring and training new people in record time post-Covid was another challenge we had to overcome.

Moving our high-end business online has been a trial-and-error process, but we are progressing. The worldwide wholesale business, which was a major part of our business, is almost nonexistent. The cost of running the business has increased a lot since being based in Miami. What are some challenges you are facing growing your business? I can feel it growing together with our city gradually. How do you see the fashion industry in Miami today? Now we are working on making them more accessible to the public. However, lately they have become quite expensive. I used to hunt and buy back pieces when we saw them in the Posh market or listed on eBay, because the memory of the story was dear to me. Each hand-painted piece is a page from the story of my life or of a female’s life… So I have kept at least one piece per artwork I have created. I have accumulated a large amount of one-of-a kind vintage pieces, just because of the nature of our business. It is a valuable resource to the Mana Fashion Services community. You must have accumulated an enormous body of work over the years. You have been designing and creating for 27 years. Miami fashion manufacturing was blooming at the time. I believe we put an advertisement in Miami New Times, and some we recruited through word of mouth. How did you find a seamstress, cutters, and patternmakers? How did you create a sample room production in Miami, a place it did not exist before? It seems like more and more people share that feeling, too. After so many years and much traveling, I still feel this way. I truly thought Miami was paradise on earth when I first came here.

I think this quality makes my work different and has helped me create a unique brand identity.Īfter traveling the world, why did you decide to create a home base in Miami? Later on, through modeling and moving to Miami, I saw her as a sensual goddess healing and life-giving.

I connected with the female essence on a totally new level. I was introduced to fashion and art early on, it was part of my making. My mother had five beautiful, powerful sisters, who I spent my childhood around painting, sewing, drawing, and expressing our being. They are stories from the book of life and many amazing women I have met. They modify her body through optical illusions and 3D elements to make her feel whole. They make her feel beautiful, yet they are so comfortable, resistant, and totally unique. My woman is powerful… She is superwoman, yet feminine and alluring. Answering relentlessly the primal question of, “How can I make it even better?” I wanted to create a product that could address and encompass a need every woman has. My brand is a byproduct of my obsession with growth. My love for life and art, creating something new, and serving a need with something unique. Hello, Ema! Please share your story on how your brand, Ema Savahl, was created.Ĭreating my brand has been an act of expression of my personal journey.

Ema savahl 2012