Ema savahl white and silver long dress professional#

The collapse of communism in Albania precipitated a family move across the Adriatic Sea to Italy, where Ema embarked on a career as a professional volleyball player. Her father, who was a national legend as a volleyball coach of the national team, recognized Ema’s own remarkable athletic ability and instilled in Ema a relentless work ethic, uncompromising discipline and fierce independence, Ema soon started to compete.

But she was blessed to have been close to her aunts, skilled seamstresses, who passed on to her an inherent sense of style and the ability to sew. One might think that growing up under a repressive communist regime may not be conducive to sparking a career in fashion. It requires a team of seamstresses, pattern makers, and artists who all have a role in making each unique garment to produce the collectionĮma was born in the ancient city of Tirana, Albania. “I urge, cajole, and encourage emerging designers to know yourself, express yourself, create out of imagination, and bring forth that which has never existed before!”Įma is the first to admit, it is not an easy process, and it cannot be done alone. “Nothing excites me more than mentoring young people to design with the right side of their brain,” Ema confesses. It is precisely here that Ema shines brightest, for she is at her most creative when awakening the creative power in others. It is the tension between the creator and the craftsman, the master and the apprentice. Creating these garments requires far more than vision. This work is unlike anything you have ever seen, because it never existed before-created, ex nihilo, from the mind of Ema. And yet, not precisely, ex nihilo. In fact, Koja considers every woman to be an individual work of art, who deserves to be framed in an equally original work of art. This marriage of her imagination, exquisite taste and attention to detail, has earned her a significant reputation among celebrities including Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez and stylish women worldwide who covet these wearable works of art. The artwork itself is conceived by Koja, who then applies it to the silhouettes that she also designs. Twenty years ago, Designer Ema Koja, created the concept and technology of strategically, hand painting artwork onto garments to produce three-dimensional textures and manipulate body shapes with optical illusion. It is an attribute ascribed to those rare few for whom creativity comes as naturally as breathing.

Ema savahl white and silver long dress