Zero + Maria Cornejo originally opened in 1998 as a purely retail concept, until when wanting to connect with her design roots, Cornejo, opened up a space in New Yorks NoLita, and transformed it into a personal store and workshop. Maria Cornejo's work has often been described as spare, modern, architectural, minimal, feminine, and unpretentious and each season she reaches into her own international experience to develop a collection that is unexpectedly simple yet based on sophisticated cuts and angles.