POV (extended version): you’re a fashion consultant so you sell custom design goods & styling services to your clients so they can live life the premium way with a premium image! 👌🏽
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OUR SIGNATURE MOTIF: THE OLIVE 🫒 FROM THE FOUNDER:
VIRA ELEA translates to “Faith Olivia” - a nod to my own name. Taking inspiration from my middle name Olivia and its root word “olive,” I wanted to build a symbol that could move across style, dress, and time.
The olive became that motif — explored through different forms, like the martini olive.
This brooch was gifted to me by my grandmother, and belonged to her mother before her. An heirloom piece passed down through generations. At VIRA ELEA, the goal is to craft custom sets and looks that speak to the history of style, status, and sentiment.
Objects to wear that carry the past with them.
Introducing, reintroducing, and reclaiming: Aura Collectve turned VIRA ELÉA. Style done well is a system: not as an outfit, but as a language. What it says before you speak. Whether it actually belongs to you.
That’s the premise behind VIRA ELÉA. We are a private curation and image house: focused on styling systems, accessory-led image building, curated pairings, and custom looks. The work is MODULAR by design: wardrobes built to move together, not around a single piece that carries everything.
What interests me is the longer arc: how presence is shaped, how a visual identity becomes something lived rather than put on. Style as infrastructure, not performance.
Going forward, I’ll be working with select clients through VIRA ELÉA across wardrobe curation, styling, design goods, and creative consulting. 🥂
PITTSBURGH | NYC | DC 🪽
VIRA ELEA: BEHIND THE STYLE.
The Founder: Faith Olivia is a Pittsburgh-born creative strategist and image consultant working across styling, curation, and design. A Howard University graduate with a BFA in Fashion Design, her work explores the relationship between style, identity, and presence.
A Virgil Abloh Scholar, Gucci Changemaker, and Black Design Collective recipient, she has contributed to brands including Luar, LaQuan Smith, Tory Burch, and Tommy Bahama.
Through Vira Elea, she is building a private consulting and curation practice rooted in editorial image-making, cultural perspective, and intentional presence.
Style’s been lost, but never the plot.
Introducing Vira Elea: A private curation and image house. The former fashion label returns, redefined through image, identity, and presence.
Not just what you wear.
How you arrive.
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