SLAVNA MARTINOVIC

Grey Sheep

@my_demigod

Location

Frankfurt am Main / germany

University

london collage of fashion

Main Manufacturing Countries

serbia
germany

Slavna Martinovic was born in 1977 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. She moved to Hong Kong with her parents as a child where she grew up and completed high school.
She continued her studies at the London College of Fashion in London. Following her graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, where she met Theadora Van Runkle the legendary costume designer (Bonnie and Clyde, Godfather II, York New York) who become her mentor. Their friendship has had a pivotal Influence in development as a designer. She has lived in Los Angeles for designing for films, music videos, and styling for celebrities and fashion magazines.
In 2008 Slavna launched her own fashion and jewelry label that premiered at the Berlin Fashion Week and was featured in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Another Magazine, Elle and many more online and printed publications. The collection was also a part of the book "Backstage - Fashion Week Berlin" by teNeues publishing.
Her creation process does not accommodate speed. She works with artisans to produce each garment or embellishment as an autonomous object. Each attire is concluded made to measure for every unique performance of gender.
Her fabrics of choice are crepe silk, kid leather with Japanese embroidery thread. The lace in Slavna's work is made entirely by hand thus the slight difference are likely due to the nature of the artisan production.
She is touched by exquisite production and the energy dress or adornment carry. Her fashions are solemnly available as she follows no fashion system creates intuitively when exalted with an urge to make or remake. She also creates unique pieces for theater and opera and dance.
Slavna has completed MA in Multimedia Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade in 2009 and is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna at the Faculty for Fashion and Styles. Slavna lives between Frankfurt, Viennna and Los Angeles and wherever her work may take her. www.slavna.net

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