Maritza Gonzalez is the creator of Lady Gore’s Boutique. The daughter of Puerto Rican parents, she was born in the winter of 1970, and raised in a small city called Peekskill in New York.

“All my life I have been different. I love the gothic world, vampires, witches and the unknown. I have seen and gone through years of gothic styles.

A few years ago I went to a vampire ball and counted the amount of girls who had the same outfit I had. I wanted to be unique not a copy of the rest. Then, there was the coffin idea. Back in the days coffins were made out of cheap crooked wood materials. Strange and unusual, but beautiful and unique to me. Nowadays, coffins are made of expensive and perfect wood seems that just seem boring to me. They all copies, nothing unique about them.

So I started making unique things out of old broken pieces of bones and other creepy materials, one of a kind. People love that. My shop provides unique gothic items, weather simple gothic, medium or full blown gothic.

I want to thank my son Luis Jimenez who one day walked into my studio saw the work I have done over the year just sitting there. He said; “Mom you need to sell these things! They are awesome!” So he build this website and here we are today.

Old pieces made from old stuff and creating new ones every day. Hope you enjoy the beauty I see in them.