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CHRISTINA'S STORY
THE JOURNEY - LILIKA
"I don't get up every day and work, I get up and play"
Christina is founder/fashion designer of Lilika Designs Fashion House based in New Zealand. She is an expert stylist, columnist and amazon bestselling author of, "Passion, Fashion & Heart" and her second book, " What you need to know for a fantastic chic life".
Featured in renowned fashion magazines including ELLE, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan among many others, she was invited to showcase her brand all around the globe including London, Paris, Milan, Dubai, New York, LA and Asia.
Christina was approached to be full costume designer for a Bollywood movie but due to Covid timing this was cancelled.
She has a true passion for encouraging and celebrating women's confidence, strength and empowerment through fashion, and is currently completing her third book, the sequel to her first.
Christina has a Greek background (Lilika is her mother's name in Greek). Being one of four sisters, she always found herself designing and styling.
Her mother grew up sewing garments from a young age, and her mother also had a great love for all things fashion also designing garments. So, it is no surprise Christina has emulated that same passion through the generations. “I started making clothes very young, as my sisters were older, I would spend lots of time with my mother while she shopped at the fabrics stores for all our next creations.
I would play for hours surrounded by fabrics and buttons dressing my dolls. So naturally as soon as my foot could reach the pedal, I owned my first sewing machine.
Once I started, I couldn’t stop, going on to make my mother clothes. Many years later when I had my own children, I realized I was still in love with fashion, putting together outfits and designing".
Christina completed study in Fashion Design going on to start her own business. She had a natural talent for styling which flowed effortlessly on from designing.
Read Christina's Amazon best seller, "Passion, Fashion & Heart" on her very real personal journey of how Lilika all began, and how walking away from a secure corporate career to follow her heart, literally changed her life.
Lilika Designs was lovingly and proudly created in New Zealand with its strong beauty that shined through the designs with the quality of fabrics and the vibrant colors and unique patterns.
"I wanted the essence of the designs to be chic, full of color, personality, playful and be just a little bit posh. Most of all when someone slips on that garment, I want her to feel truly unique, not to step out and be wearing the same as every other woman on the street" Christina says.
" I don't get up each day now and work, I get up each day now and play. Inspiration has come from now knowing the freedom of following my heart, the power of being myself and simply just doing what I love" says Christina.
Update: Christina is now a fulltime author and columnist, after accepting the opportunity to have more lifestyle balance while she still helps and inspires from all around the world. She no longer has her boutique due to wanting to further her writing career. "I am still doing what I absolutely love, I'm just expressing it through the pages of my books and my columns, instead of on the international runways
I have a wonderful reader base and get so many letters about how much my writing has helped women feel better about themselves and changing their lifestyle for the better because of it. I've even had some contact from a few very happy husbands who tell me they have, "the wife back they first fell in love with". That right there, the feedback from all the readers is why I became a designer and an author.
I feel very blessed to be doing what I love each day while still having a wonderful balance in life to have time with my loved ones and of course my beautiful horse Persia"
Check out Christina's New York City fashion & style column, "How To Look Fabulous And Love The Life You Live" HERE
CHRISTINA: THE AUTHOR
CHRISTINA had never intended to become an author. It just happened as her journey progressed. Nothing tells it like her bestselling book. Read about it on the link below...
