Collection ALEKSEJA

Have you ever seen a Russian tale The fool of the world and the flying ship? If you have, then you know that the Russian princess in it is Alekseja. And this flying ship was my inspiration for the fashion show Wings.

Ste kdaj gledali rusko pravljico Bedaček Peter in Leteča ladja? Če ste, potem veste, da je ruski princesi v pravljici ime Alekseja. Prav leteča ladja pa je bila moja inspiracija za modno revijo Krila.

Inspiracija

I created a collection of women's clothes, with a hidden transformations. Because of the zippers you can wear a dress in different ways. To me zippers are a wonderful thing - both functional and aesthetic, so I would not be surprised if I soon made a collection full of zippers...

Nastala je kolekcija ženskih oblek, ki v sebi skrivajo transformacije. Zadrge se odpenjajo in zapenjajo, obleka pa se spreminja... Zadrge se mi namreč zdijo čudovita stvar – hkrati funkcionalna in estetska. Ne bi se čudila, če bi kmalu naredila kolekcijo iz samih zadrg...

Photoshooting of Alekseja:

Photographer: Matic Verbančič

Model: Teja Sedovšek

Hair: Simon Potokar

Make-up: Tatjana Stojanovič

From fashion show WINGS:

Collection WARRIOR

Collection Warrior was “in the making” for a very long time. I started drawing sketches when I lived in France and also completed them - quite a few times. In fact, when I finished drawing, I put all the sketches up on the wall and just watched them for two weeks - and then I made one change, and then another ... and so on, until the collection was completely different - and I repeated this process for several times :)

But somehow I still finished drawing all the designes and ideas become a reality. The first photoshooting happened before all the outfits were even made. Here you can see my favorite photos.

NIKATOrkar design
model: Petra
hair: Simon Potokar
make-up: Anja Kert

Kolekcija Bojevnica je nastajala zelo dolgo. Začelo sem jo risati v Franciji in jo tudi dokončala – kar nekajkrat. Namreč, ko sem zaključila z risanjem skic, sem jih nalepila na steno in jih dva tedna samo gledala – in potem sem ugotovila, da bi lahko naredila eno spremembo, pa mogoče še drugo... in tako naprej, dokler se ni kolekcija popolnoma spremenila – in ta proces se je večkrat ponovil :)

No ampak nekako mi je vendarle ratalo, da sem zaključila z risanjem in so ideje postale resničnost.

Prvo fotografiranje se je zgodilo še preden so bili narejeni vsi modeli. Tukaj lahko vidite moje najljubše fotografije.

NIKATOrkar design

model: Lea

hair: Simon Potokar

make-up: Anja Kert

You are also welcome to check out this video about phootoshot made by Eva Jančar Kalan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CTLUemSxww

In the collection are also two black wool coats, which were first photographed in snowy Switzerland.

V kolekciji sta tudi dva črna volnena plašča, ki sta bila prvič fotografirana v zasneženi Švici.

NIKATOrkar design
photo: Zlatko Pulko

NIKATOrkar design
photo: Zlatko Pulko

But the photoshoot of full collection happened at the Railway Museum in Ljubljana where old black locomotives nicely complemented the elegance of clothing.

Tisto res pravo fotografiranje pa je kolekcija doživela v Železniškem muzeju v Ljubljani, kjer so stare črne lokomotive lepo dopolnile eleganco oblačil.

Photographer: Matic Verbančič

Model: Teja Sedovšek

Make-up: Anja Kert

Photographer: Matic Verbančič

Model: Teja Sedovšek

Make-up: Anja Kert

Collection ATTENTION

I made collection Attention ​​for an exhibition in Ljubljana, organized by the SOTO Society, which showed the top 50 designers from South and South-East of Europe. For the photoshoot I added some new pieces. My favorite is beige coat with red "scratches" on the back. What about yours?

NIKATOrkar design
photographer: Luka Gorjup www.gorjup.eu
model: Neja Žagar
make-up: Ayda Wild

Kolekcijo Attention sem izdelala za prodajno razstavo, ki jo je organiziralo društvo SOTO, na njej pa se je predstavilo 50 najboljših oblikovalcev J in JV Evrope. Odkar je bila narejena sem dodala še nekaj novih kosov. Meni najljubši je bež plašček z rdečimi »praskami« na hrbtu. Pa vam?

NIKATOrkar design
photographer: Luka Gorjup www.gorjup.eu
model: Neja Žagar
make-up: Ayda Wild

WHY WARRIOR?

When I think about new ideas, I think of a woman who will be wearing my clothes, and I always imagine some kind of a warrior - sometimes I see her in an armor with a sword in her hand, another time she gracefully rides on a horse, I can see her as a modern woman, who is fighting for higher position at work or as a romantic girl who fights for her love. NIKATO warrior is not a warrior only in her appearance. She is a woman with clear goals, with fearless heart and a natural elegance.

In fact, I only recently started to think where "my" warrior came from. I admit that I like to get lost in the fantasy world, ruled by elves, dragons and magic... in a world where anything is possible. I was mainly influenced by books and later also by movies – and today they can show the incredibly wonderful world I've sometimes only read about and imagined in my mind. These stories were always full of men warriors, so a woman warrior among them looked all the more powerful and attractive.

So whether it is Ellen Ripley, Jeanne d'Arc, Leeloo, Arwen or any other, I was impressed (and still am) by all of them.

Ko razmišljam o novih idejah, o ženski, ki bo nosila moja oblačila, si vedno predstavljam nekakšno bojevnico – včasih jo vidim v oklepu z mečem v roki, drugič kako graciozno jaha na konju, lahko jo vidim kot moderno žensko, ki se bori za višji položaj v službi ali pa kot zaljubljeno deklico, ki se bori za svojo ljubezen. NIKATO bojevnica ni le bojevnica v izgledu. Gre za žensko z jasnim ciljem, z neustrašnim srcem in naravno eleganco.

V bistvu sem šele pred kratkim začela razmišljati od kje je prišla »moja« bojevnica. Priznam, da se rada izgubim v fantazijskem svetu, kjer vladajo vilinci, zmaji in čarovnija... v svetu kjer je vse mogoče. Name so predvsem vplivale knjige, kasneje pa tudi filmi, ki danes že prav neverjetno čudovito prikažejo vse o čemer sem kdaj brala in si le predstavljala. Te zgodbe so bile vedno polne moških bojevnikov med katerimi je ženska bojevnica izgledala toliko bolj mogočna in privlačna.

Pa naj bo to Ellen Ripley, Jeanne d'Arc, Leeloo, Arwen ali katera druga, vse so naredile vtis name.

FORGOTTEN

Fashion is a battlefield. Designers, models, photographers, stylists ... and of course bloggers, we are all searching for our place in the spotlight, we fight and we hope that we will still stand among the living when the battle is over.

Dresses from the Warrior collection
Models: Lea & Petra
Make-up: Anja Kert
Hair: Simon Potokar

Blogs really are a funny thing. For many years I wrote a diary - hidden diary just for me, the old-fashioned way - only paper, pencil and my thoughts. But now everybody share their thoughts on the internet, sometimes even the most intimate. Quite bizarre, don’t you think?

So recently, when I talked with a friend who writes a blog called Blue Valentine, I started thinking about joining the growing crowd of bloggers, when I realized that actually I already have a blog, but I totally forgot about it. So I quickly went into action and decided to do some renovation. Since the establishment of my forgotten blog many things have changed. I lived in France for a while, where I broke my tongue trying to speak French, I admired how Paris comes to life during Fashion Week and enjoyed many trips with my boyfriend. After returning to Slovenia I graduated from Fashion and textile design at NTF in Ljubljana and started with postgradute studies, which led to 1st prize for best collection of the year at NTF fashion show “Wings”. And now I am working on my next project - bridal gowns - because even warriors can fall in love.

Just for fun I made this jersey shirt and a skirt made entirely out of colorful shoelaces.
Photo: Zlatko Pulko
Location: Rouen, France

Svet mode je kot bojišče. Oblikovalci, modeli, fotografi, stilisti... in seveda blogerji, vsi iščemo svoje mesto pod sojem žarometov, se borimo in si želimo, da bomo na koncu bitke zmagoslavno še vedno stali med živimi.

Blogi so res hecna stvar. Dolga leta sem namreč pisala dnevnik – skriti dnevnik, samo zase, na staromoden način – samo papir, svinčnik in moje misli. Zdaj pa na spletu vsak deli svoja razmišljanja, včasih tudi tista najbolj intimna. Precej bizarno, se vam ne zdi?

Ampak pred kratkim, ko sem se pogovarjala s prijateljico, ki piše blog, sem začela razmišljati o tem, da bi se pridružila naraščajoči množici blogerjev, ko sem ugotovila, da blog dejansko že imam, le pozabila sem nanj.

Tako, da sem hitro stopila v akcijo in se odločila za renovacijo, saj se je od ustanovitve pozabljenega bloga do danes že marsikaj spremenilo. Nekaj časa sem živela v Franciji, kjer sem si lomila jezik s francoščino, občudovala kako Pariz v času tedna mode oživi in uživala v mnogih izletih s svojim dragim. Po vrnitvi v Slovenijo sem diplomirala iz oblikovanja tekstilij in oblačil na NTF v Ljubljani in se vpisala na magisterij, ki me je ponesel do nagrade za najboljšo kolekcijo leta na NTF modni reviji Krila. Zdaj pa me oblikovalske ideje peljejo tudi med poročne obleke – ker se tudi bojevnice zaljubijo.