Elisa Mariani

“Follow your dreams”: sounds like a thrilling ad, like an easy choice that everyone could make in life, but, in reality, it’s not that easy- at all. Quite often, dedication to one’s own passion requires sacrifices and hard choices, and the conclusion is usually pretty unsure. Nevertheless, there are still many young and talented supporters of this old school point of view, among which it is worthwhile to mention Elisa Mariani, ambitious Italian designer that has been releasing several illustrations on Elle.it during this year. After the first period spent writing about the AW 12/13 fashion shows, a crucial occasion to fall in love with the fashion sphere and online magazines’ contexts, this young talent had then the lucky chance to publish on the website her own visual creations on a daily basis.

Proactive mood, undeniable proficiency, modesty, but above all, passion: “visceral, insane, aphrodisiac” passion for drawing, as Mariani herself loves to define it. This is what drives the daily activity and sharply marks the personality of this ambitious girl, who constantly strives to do better and better, to reach a higher level of competence and dexterity in what she does.
Her major kind of work consists of portraits or visual reproductions of outfits and accessories, and, despite the variety of subjects reproduced, one common trait persists in all her works: the search of perfection. Her creations are, as a matter of fact, realistic, hyper-detailed and technically excellent, worthy result of a constant process of self-improvement and pursue of artistic apogee. Detail is what marks her creations, coupled with a sharp and definite use of colors, perfect choice for the glamorous and exaggerated outfits that she seems to love reproducing, but above all a biting pencil stroke.

Her portraits are a pure visual pleasure, bright colors fit well with the lightness of shapes and the admirable subjects themselves. Every single line exudes love and passion that this talent cultivates for her job, a kind of daily self investment that is already giving her considerable returns: if design is the big love of her life (her dream is to keep on challenging herself on this field in the future), upcoming months reserve some interesting news for her, still in the fashion sphere, of course. Stay tuned, without doubt, she will amaze us.