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Louise de Rohan | Season 2 Portraits Part 2 (5/8)

–Emily

While I have yet to own one of her designs (that peplum piece is tempting though) a trip through CorsetFakery on Tumblr reveals that Maya’s designs were one of the earliest (and most popular) ones to be copied by factories! In case you have been hunting one of her lush designs that actually fits well and is constructed with couture finish, here she is, the real McCoy! ~ Maya Carbajal Alex-Hansen was born and raised in Madrid. She atended Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid and graduated with honours in 2002. She won Portuguese Internantional Prize at Porto Fashion Award in 2000 with a colection based on the spanish architec Santiago Calatrava Works. In 2001 she won the second Price at Smirnoff Fashion Awards. In february 2002 she present her first collection at Barcelona Gaudí Fashion Show. Maya Hansen was created in 2006 as a fashion brand speciallized in corsets. Maya Hansen debuted in February 2010 at the EGO Madrid Cibeles Fashion Week with the AW’10 collection ‘Heavy Metal Couture’ and she won L’Oreal Prize to the best young designer collection in september 2010 with the SS11 ‘Lace Wings’ collection. AW’11 ‘Queens of Spain’ collection catched international stylist attention and was featured in several publications and celebrities such as Lady Gaga worn some of the pieces. The huge repercussion on media pushed her to present her SS12 ‘Knotted’ collection at the Cibeles Fashion Show Madrid, the most important fashion event in Spain. The ‘AW 5th Ave’ collection is the first collection she presented in Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid and later on the same year in Paris during the fashion week where she attend as exhibitor.