FASHION
Ana Ljubinković│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: Stranger’s letters to the loved ones intensified by distance and separation - the beloved woman seems ideal and almost ethereal. The embroidered picture itself represents a love letter. It depicts the Greek God of winds, Aeolos, who saved a struggling ship that got attacked by a raging creature. It tells a story about the never-ending hope and faith in the existence of true love. Ana
Fotini Lagaki / Fotini Lgk│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: Space phenomena and traditional Japanese clothing. I used photos and videos of NASA illustrating the activity of the sun. By composing them I created images from which took out the color palette, the shapes of the clothes and the digital prints of fabrics. FILE Collection or creation: THE SUN Brand: Fotini Lgk Designer and / or studio: Fotini Lagaki /
Peter Movrin│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: “The collection was based on my own universe of elegance and glamour, because I think that this is something we really need at the moment. Its glamour with references to workwear. I made my own fabric from paper, foil and organza. I created interesting combinations of cheap and expensive materials.” The career of this fresh CSM MA Womenswear graduate is rapidly flourishing and showing no sign of
Cyber Geisha
Inspiration: Strong and avantgarde, futuristic, extraordinary and mystical, everything that impresses our imagination and turns our dreams into reality. Minerals, crystals and geometric shapes found in nature serve as the primary source of inspiration for the collection. And thus the black crystal Cyber Geisha has been born. Materials and techniques: silk, layering and sculpturing padded materials in almost origami style Credits
Lenka Sršňová│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: The bold print, reminiscent of brush strokes that was exclusively designed in house and digitally printed, is the key element of the POP LINE collection and the selected pieces. FILE Collection or creation: POP LINE Brand: Lenka Sršňová Designer and / or studio: Lenka Sršňová Photography: Petra Bošanská for Evita Magazine Materials and techniques: 100% cotton / digital print
Sisa Holla│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: I cooperated with Slate Lite company and used their products (flexible stone), and for me it represents a unique combination of nature and technology in fashion. I see nature as an intelligent element which is much above the human world, and it embodies the beauty of its patterns, structures and shapes. In the past the images of women used to be carved in stone. Today, however, I want
Andrea Pojezdalova│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: ’’There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.‘‘ - Virginia Woolf (Orlando) Andrea Pojezdálová is a young Slovak fashion designer. She studied fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in
Nevena Ivanović for NEO design studio│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: Khazarian dictionary, a book by Serbian writter Milorad Pavić, written in such a way that it can be read and observed from many different angles and viewpoints. Also, Khazarians have a strange ability to wake up every day with a different appearance and sometimes even with a different gender. The title of the collection comes from the name of Khazarian princess, ATEH. She was a teacher, an adviser,
Athenas and Anastasios Tranoulis / ATHENA BY TRANOULIS│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: To protest and to be the fashion voice among other voices around the world, for the return of the stolen Parthenon marbles to its original place. The name of the protest campaign is “TAKE ME HOME”, and it is under the auspices of Hellenic Olympians Association. The designers were awarded the 2018 personality award by the Academy of Greek Art Awards. The movement is strongly supported by artists,
Flora Miranda│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: We 3d scanned the Négilé Coat which is part of the Fashion and Costume Collection of The University of Applied Arts Vienna. The garment was worn either by the crown princess Stephanie von Belgien or the Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg in 1895. By virtualising this piece it transforms to be dead in cyberspace. But its data becomes everlast ing, the information is stored and can be directly reproduced at
Loreta Gudelj (clothes), Mihaela Markovic (knitted bags), Priyanka Desai (jewellery), Naša Posla (shoes) / Arte Studio│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: Arte is a capsule art collection project created on the basis of a collaboration among various international designers sharing the same idea of paying homage to modern and contemporary artworks. This collection was inspired by modern Basque sculptor and graphic artist Eduardo Chillida. FILE Collection or creation: Edition Chillida Brand: Arte. Designer and / or
Mario Vijačkić│BIG SEE Awards 2018
Inspiration: The collection is the result of the reflection related to the autobiographical moments from the recent past reflected in the present, and it also touches upon the question as to how much geo-political aspect affects the perception of the Croatian fashion in the world. The aesthetics of the nineties in the Balkans as a protruding motif, elements of formal work clothing as well as the historical and traditional