The Healing Colors Guide: What You Wear Can Transform How You Feel
The Healing Colors Guide: What You Wear Can Transform How You Feel
Color is not decoration — it is language. Discover how the South of France Artisan Collection and Estrella pieces embody the healing spectrum of green, blue, violet, apricot, and white.... Read more...
Woman in Estrella Artisan Tie-Strap Midi Dress standing in a museum gallery among marble busts and classical paintings
Estrella — Where Art Wears You
Estrella began as a painting — warm, golden, expressive. Now she's a dress. Discover the story behind the Estrella Artisan Tie-Strap Midi Dress and the museum editorial that brought her... Read more...
Sunflowers in a Vase: When a Still Life Becomes Something You Wear
Sunflowers in a Vase: When a Still Life Becomes Something You Wear
The story behind the painting that became a dress — Marika shares the Impressionist inspiration behind the Sunflowers in a Vase Premium Bodycon Dress. Read more...
The Forest — an original painting by Maria Hughes depicting the layered, surrounding feeling of chronic pain through dense greens, golds, and burnt oranges on textured canvas
The Forest: How Pain Became a Painting, and a Painting Became a Life
Before Lifestyle Image Shop, there was a painting called The Forest — born from the depths of living with scleroderma. In this post, founder Maria Hughes shares how pain became... Read more...
Wear Your Values: The Unisex Knit Vest Edition
Wear Your Values: The Unisex Knit Vest Edition
Two unisex knit vests, two distinct stories. The bold Save The Wildlife vest in sage green and the refined Plain Knit Vest in plum — styled for the museum, the... Read more...
Midsummer Bloom: A Christmas in July Love Letter to the Flower Collection
Midsummer Bloom: A Christmas in July Love Letter to the Flower Collection
This Christmas in July, we're celebrating with petals, warmth, and effortless style. Meet the Flower Midi Dress, the Cropped Windbreaker, and the Flower Artisan Candle — a seasonal trio made... Read more...
Masquerade — Where Art Wears the Face of Freedom
Masquerade — Where Art Wears the Face of Freedom
Behind every mask lives a universe. The Masquerade Sweatshirt is Marika's Studio's most intimate wearable art yet — a Frida Kahlo-inspired golden mask rendered in amber, copper, and burnished gold... Read more...
How Wearable Art Became My Healing Practice
How Wearable Art Became My Healing Practice
How the artist-inspired collections at Lifestyleimageshop.com became more than fashion — they became a healing practice. Read more...
Original painting by Marika Hughes — Eyes of Frida Kahlo, gold brushstrokes on canvas
Eyes of Frida Kahlo — One Painting, One Gaze
The story behind a single painting — bold gold brushstrokes, Frida's iconic gaze, and how one canvas became an entire wearable art collection. Read more...
Introducing Marika's Studio: A New Chapter in Wearable Art
Introducing Marika's Studio: A New Chapter in Wearable Art
Photo taken June 2026 during the 40th Anniversary of the Contemporary in Blue Star San Antonio, Texas.There are names that follow you through life — not because they were chosen... Read more...