MARIA SNYDER is a world renowned top model, trailblazing designer, eco-fashion pioneer, activist, leading “A New Generation of Artists for Peace”. MARIA is increasingly recognized as a Visual Communicator and Thought Leader, which is reflected in her recent brands focused on sustainability and interconnectedness: ECO BOYS AND GIRLS™, ECOBRANDS™, PEACEARTH™, A MESSAGE OF LOVE™ and IAM™.
MARIA attended school in Athens, Greece, studied at the American University in Paris and received a Master’s Degree in 20th Century Art History. While in Paris, MARIA was discovered by Yves Saint Laurent and quickly rose to fame launching an international modeling career and work with legendary designers, photographers and artists around the world.www.ecobrands.com, www.mariasnyder.com
MARIA’s career in fashion design began after meeting Diane von Furstenberg who exhibited MARIA’s art as fashion. As a result of Maria’s innovation in style and trendsetting ability, she quickly rose to international fame as a top fashion designer. MARIA is considered an eco fashion pioneer as “one of the first designers to introduce an exclusive eco collection created from recycled materials” and as an activist bringing eco fashion into the fashion forefront. As an artist, MARIA has been compared to Niki de Saint Phalle and Sonia Delaunay, two of the world’s great female artists who turned their art into fashion. Tiffany and Co. announced MARIA as “One of America’s Hottest Fashion Designers”. She has been nominated to the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the International Best Dressed List. She was also ranked as one of the “Top American Designers to Watch” by the US Department of Commerce.
MARIA’s recently launched brands focus on sustainability and inter-connectedness. ECO BOYS AND GIRLS™, a children’s infotainment brand for environmental education has partnered with top education, environmental, and science organizations around the world, such as the National Education Association, Association of Science and Technology Centers and Friends of the United Nations, to name a few. ECOBRANDS™, PEACEARTH™, A MESSAGE OF LOVE™, IAM™ are brands partnering with leading international organizations and are in various stages of development.
MARIA is recognized as “Leading a New Generation of Artists for Peace”. Her PEACEARTH™ Projects, monumental art installations, will be held at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters and viewed by millions of people around the world. This art installation will focus on Peace through Arts, Culture, Education, Science and the Environment. MARIA has also created works for foundations, institutions and hospitals around the world. The Fulbright Center in Washington, DC, featured Maria’s HeartsUnite painting at The Global Symposium of Peaceful Nations. Her 40 foot PeaceN’Love Wall, an art installation on permanent display in the entranceway to the Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, TX.
At the annual American Public Health Association conference, MARIA’s art was featured “as an emerging body of work that spans graphic, advertising, and fine arts in techniques and media, while illuminating the challenges of bringing images and ideas about peace into the modern mainstream, after decades of marginalization”.
MARIA’s entrepreneurial spirit comes from her family background, as the daughter of the late industrialist and developer, Arthur Thomas Snyder, considered a pioneer in the revitalization of modern Portland, Maine. Her brothers, Jason Arthur Snyder a developer of family properties that include Maine’s First Smart City and brother, Simon Arthur Snyder, an environmental activist has authored several books in Maria’s ECO BOYS AND GIRLS™ Book Series.
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