Meet Zorica, The Woman Obsessed With Colour Red

An extremely weird woman from Bosnia and Herzegovina named Zorica Rebernik has spent her life surrounded by the Red colour and she plans to stay that way.... even after she dies.


After 40 years of dressing in the red color from head to toe, the 67-year-old Bosnian has had tombstones made for herself and husband Zoran (whom she married wearing a red gown).

The special red granite imported from India has been used in building the burial place in preparation.


The retired schoolteacher lives in a red house, where she and Zoran eat from red plates, drink from red glasses and sleep in red bedding. Even her hair is dyed red.

“When I turned 18 or 19 there came a sudden, strong urge to wear red,” Rebernik said.

“There must not be a single dot of any other color on my home decorations or clothes. Wearing shades like scarlet and vermillion gives her “the feeling of strength and power.”


Rebernik’s obsession with the color has made her a local celebrity in her hometown of Breze, close to Tuzla in northern Bosnia.

“Everybody knows me. As soon as people see me, they offer me different red things,” she said, adding that she would reject any gift that was not red, no matter how precious.

She even goes to funerals dressed in red, disregarding the traditional black outfit meant for such occasion.

The only problem is that her husband does not notice when Zorica wears something new.

“I can’t tell the difference. Everything is the same,” he said.