Maria Kulieva
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Spring / Summer 2026 Allegory of Death Chapter 01

Allegory of Death

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Scroll Kharkiv, March 2026 — presented with Ukrainian Techno Movement Electroperedachi
The Maria Kulieva brand can show you how to be naked wearing clothes.

House manifesto · est. 2019 · Kharkiv

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Shop Party wear, occasion wear and premium leather goods.
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What we create

Maria Kulieva creates clothing for people who are ready to be seen — not only as they appear, but as they truly desire to be.

To us, being naked does not necessarily mean being undressed. It means becoming emotionally, sexually and creatively open. Our garments exist between clothing and revelation. They can protect and expose, restrain and liberate, provoke and comfort.

We do not dress bodies to conceal them. We dress bodies so they can speak.

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Black and white: a model in a laced leather dress beside a bare concrete column
Made in Kharkiv

Kharkiv is not simply where we work. It is present in our silhouettes, our contradictions and our understanding of beauty — a city of monumental structures and intimate underground lives, where fragility and defiance exist beside one another.

In a city forced to live beside death, desire becomes evidence of life.

A model in a sheer mesh shirt raises a heeled shoe to the mouth
The next chapter

At the centre of this evolution is a new exploration of the male body: dresses, corsets and costumes cut for men, taking forms traditionally associated with femininity and allowing them to reveal different expressions of masculine beauty, vulnerability, sensuality and power.

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