1000 Ideas by 100 Fashion Designers

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Bosnian-born artist,

designer, healer,

and teacher, Lidija

Kolovrat, has been

based since 1990 in

Lisbon, Portugal.

Her local studio is

the platform for sale,

research, work, and

discoveries. Working

womenswear and

accessories since

her early years in

Zagreb, Lidija started

showing her  rst entire

menswear collection in

March 2006 at Lisbon

Fashion Week. With

a strong, innovative,

and crashing vision,

her menswear has

been around now

for years. She has a

multidisciplinary

approach to her work,

taking everything

from the particular to

the whole, observing

everything in its

entirety. In her words,

design follows the

inherent nature that

goes,  ows, and talks

in objects. She regards

fashion as a  eld where

one can express and

melt art, politics,

human behavior, and

social need.

Lidija Kolovrat

www.kolovratconcept.com

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531 INSPIRATION. Before I start the

collection, I recognize my feelings–that

is the initial start of any reasoning. It is

therefore more like a sensation from which

the themes and sensations come out of

organ ically.

532 D

EVELOPING A COLLECTION. Because

things start from initial reason-feeling,

everything that gets developed falls into a

place or it’s eliminated.

533 C

OLORS. It is like a melody. It tunes

the light. Therefore it can be lighter or

heavier. Again, it is something intuitive, it

comes to express the same feeling or take

away from the initial idea and use it as a

contrast.

534 B

RAND VA L U E S . I promise research

and constant appreciation.

535

I

NDIVIDUALITY VS. GROUP

BELONGING. I pretty much

defend freedom and, therefore,

individuality. I work from that

point. It is also very interesting

to  nd and use common

sense. These two ideas are

not necessarily opposite. Just

through the matter of liking

them or not, I can decide between

perspectives: individual or group

belonging.

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536 COMMUNICATION. Communication

is very important for me, but that does not

mean that I am good at it.

537 E

VOLUTION. I feel that I need to

be alive at every moment and to interact.

Therefore, in some way there is always

work being generated.

538 I

S FASHION ART? I think I have the

posture of an artist but what my exercises

are about is that my body is mind-need

situated and vice versa, as well as body

with the object and reverse. My latest

project is relating mind and space with the

body in the middle.

539 A

DVICE. The original feeling

of things will always give the result

accordingly, it is mathematical.

540 A

CKNOWLEDGEMENT. The best

praise is when people love my work!

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