When I walked in to shoot Marka, I was mesmerized by her Texan beauty and the obvious comfort in herself, exemplified by her effusive joy and the way she is able to laugh at herself, living with 7 boys in a hugh, art-filled, eclectic loft in Brooklyn. As she showed me dress after dress, each more elegant in that bewitching Southern sort of way than the next, Marka revealed that her femininity in dressing has increased correspondingly with the dominance of males in her surroundings. The influence of strong women is omnipresent in Marka’s life, as she is greatly influenced both in style and in soul by her grandmother from West Texas (who now lives in New Orleans and has bright red hair) and her mother (whose closet will be revealed on this site in the future and who taught Marka that you can be a lot of different kinds of people thorough the way you dress). Her mom believes in the power of reinventing yourself – an important lesson to be learned from a woman who was once shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean and forced to live on a raft for five days while surrounded by man-eating sharks. Marka’s self-assuredeness in her eclectic and bold style is echoed in the freedom with which she expresses herself artistically, from cowgirl to old Hollywood, painter to performance artist, there are no limits for Marka, she exudes an aura that says anything is possible.