ABOUT

Maria Korovilas works across fashion, interiors, and education, using design as a tool for cultural observation and authorship. Her practice began with her Los Angeles–based ready-to-wear label korovilas stocked by Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, URBN Group brands, and boutiques nationwide, alongside a custom gown atelier under Maria Korovilas, featured in key press moments and on red carpets. This independent work led to her recruitment into creative leadership within the URBN group, with tenure as Design Director for Free People, where she led dress collections, followed by her role as Design Director at Anthropologie, where she designed and launched the brand’s occasion and bridal capsule under the BHLDN label- now Anthropologie Weddings. Alongside fashion, her atelier practice has evolved to include interior environments and world building across collaborative mediums. She is currently co-developing HEART OF THE VILLAGE, a community-rooted lifestyle project spanning fashion, farm, interiors, and vintage, with her longtime friend Katie Baldwin of Amber Waves Farm.

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As Associate Chair of Fashion Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design [Atlanta], Maria’s work explores how education, making, and commerce can operate as a single ecosystem. She is currently leading the development of a concept store platform for SCAD- launching in Savannah in March 2026- that functions as a circular learning model and an elevated retail experiment.

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Her current body of work, Les Cahiers, THEODORA, is an illustrated, fashion magazine-format children’s universe that positions observation as narrative. Moving between images, objects, and quiet moments, the project considers how cultural memory is formed—not through explanation, but through attention. Across all of her work, Maria is interested in how meaning accumulates when we slow down long enough to notice.