my demgod |Slavna Martinovic

slavna's creation process does not accommodate speed. she works with artisans to produce each garment or embellishment as an autonomous object. she is touched by exquisite production and the energy dress or adornment carries. her fashions are solemnly available as she follows no fashion system, and creates intuitively when exalted with an urge to make or remake.

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'eightcapsuleblack' is an anniversary gesture to her first collection 'brave new luxury' which she debuted at the berlin fashion week in 2008. she contemplates the symbolic meaning of the 8ball, the good luck bad luck duplicity, translating this through her creative practice taking a chance at appropriating her own past designs. she reconstructs 8 black pieces searching for a close-to-perfect being, someone and no one in a handsome black dress.

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referred by vogue uk as a black sheep of berlin fashion week the 'brave new luxury'' collection (2008) resonated with the singular luxury of precious handmade silk wearables with delicate hand crochet and point-laced details.

slavna's design practice encouraged the concept of sustainability, manifesting a desire for sleek dainty pieces untouched by season or current trends to be worn again and again. accessorized by wonderfully hand-crafted jewelry, the collection becomes a conceptual and visual apothegm for her future creative process.

hello tiger! was a playful homage to bollywood's plenty. using traditional indian hand beading, the collection of silk pieces encrusted with flying tigers and pink fiery wings of crystals and pallets was heard roaring for years to come. the jewelry made of exclusively vintage crystals from the 1950's brought 'more' to the plenty. the collection was shown at the arte realle gallery in milan in 2010.

her jewlery copious in detail with gleaming vintage stones is produced entirely by hand. these charming trinkets are all unique, as their artisan crafting process does not allow two pieces to be exactly the same.

'how the moon floats through her' is an attempt to give new life to antique crochet lace tollies and also marks the beginning of a process of re-salvaging the past slavna continues to use in her creation. she attempts to fashionably augment the product of the time's past feminine practice, consummated during the time of rest or leisure. she re-envisions the tollies as delicate beaded capes, accessories of filigree quality. the abandoned once-priced possessions, products of hours of labor and love, become objects of desire in a new form in the new century, 2011.

'this side of paradise is a utopian attempt to create a collection by deconstructing an 'objet trouvé', black jeans, antique kimono, a crochet tollie, a leftover beaded appliqué of the past collection... painted and crafted by hand, these one of a kind pieces adorned and adored become fetishes of sustainability, a small island of hope on the other side of luxury, 2013.

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'my demigod' is a tiny collection where slavna traverses between the familiar process of reconstructing the found and an attempt to create very precise, intricate pieces created from a drawing. she works on perfecting the process of point lace, wishing to blur the boundaries between jewelry and accessories. the process is painstakingly slow, slow and magical, a mantra of a kind, to the gods of art nouveau no less.

in 2002 while still living in los angeles slavna produced her pilot collection. the collection of hand-crafted designs of fine leather and knitwear. an homage to the 70s los angeles rock and roll fashions, it was an attempt of produce one-of-a-kind garments for the celebrities of the time. the collection was stolen and the scenario of starting her fashion line was postponed to a later date...thus she renamed it 'the land of tears'.