{"id":739,"date":"2015-02-28T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/9-questions-with-gabriela-emma-olivera\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:53:00","slug":"9-questions-with-gabriela-emma-olivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/28\/9-questions-with-gabriela-emma-olivera\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Questions with Gabriela Emma Olivera"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. When did you discover jewelry design?<\/strong>
\nI always liked this kind of jewelry and the mysticism that goes around them.<\/p>\n

2. What made you decide to design purses as well as jewelry? (Or was it the other way around and you did bags first and then decided to do jewelry?)<\/strong>
\nThe bag goes after for a women it’s a must and complements the style. <\/p>\n

3. What inspired the Khalama collection?<\/strong>
\nThe unknown of the different cultures, the different stones, metal, seeds, that they have to be together in a perfect and unique way. <\/p>\n

4. Can you take my readers through the process of how a piece of jewelry goes from being a design to a piece for sale?<\/strong>
\nOne day when I start to make the first necklaces I explain to a friend of mine that I have to be inspired, and she told me yes… because it’s like a paint or a sculpture it’s a unique combination, it take me some times minutes, sometimes hours and may be days. It’s incredible that in one day I could make four five complete. The women who wear it have to feel that it’s a beautiful combination of the beads, stones, some times wool, everything, cultures, religions. Every women has a color to match not just with the cloth, it has to match her… When I finish them there’s some very good people who cooperate on this journey. They take the pictures then uploaded them to the web, make the social media and all the work to sell them.<\/p>\n

5. Do you feel the stones and materials you use provide a particular energy to the jewelry?<\/strong>
\nI feel that the combination of the materials, specially the stones and the person who wear it make a combination and creates an energy around them on all the paths that can be.<\/p>\n

Bracelet from Khalama Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

6. What is one of your favorite pieces and why?<\/strong>
\nI love the Amethysts because my country Uruguay is one of the majors origins of them. They have a spectacular color and for who believe the energy of the stones protect you and give a positive energy.<\/p>\n

7. When not wearing your jewelry, what is some of your favorite jewelry to wear?<\/strong>
\nI like the silver a lot and the pre-Columbian gold.<\/p>\n

8. When you’re not working on the Khalama collection, what else do you like to do?<\/strong>
\nI have another two companies so I have a lot of work to do, one of logistics and the restaurant so I love to cook!! I read and I have to boys that are my life. I have to take care of them and I spend time with them.<\/p>\n

Bag from Khalama Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

9. What else can my readers look forward to from you and\/or Khalama?<\/strong>
\nLook for a combination of nature with, seeds, wool, stones, and much color.<\/p>\n

About Gabriela Emma Olivera & Khalama:<\/strong>
\nWhen Miami-based designer Gabriela Emma Olivera envisioned her handbag and hi-end accessories line Khalama<\/a>, she planned on a brand high in spiritual wealth and abundant with cultural richness: beautiful and boundless with beads imported from such countries as Morocco, Colombia, Peru, Tibet, Uruguay, and India, the extensive Khalama<\/a> line lends itself to a unique cross-continental interconnectedness rarely found in fashion.<\/p>\n

Clinging most closely to it’s Tibetan meaning of Sky Path, Khalama’s<\/a> spiritual energies echo lotus flowers, koi fish, Buddha, and Lord Ganesh while drawing energy from natural stones and organic materials including turquoise stones, lapis lazuli, amber, and coral. The Khalama Collection<\/a> expresses the natural and spiritual.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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