An innovative fashion showcase at the intersection of avantgarde aesthetics, technology, and political activism
The second edition of Romanian Annual Fashion Showcase organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute New York every year starts Friday, February 17, during the New York Fashion Week 2023, bringing front and center award-wining San Francisco-based designer CAMELIA SKIKOS, an innovative creator working at the intersection of avantgarde aesthetics, technology, and political activism.
The exhibition,aone-off fashion showcase, opens at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York on February 17, 2023, with a special event running between 6:00 – 9:00 pm.
The show entitled “Imago” focuses on the influential designer’s stylistic vocabulary as typified by her latest collections, “Language of Goddess” (2020), “Permission to Bloom” (2021/2022), and “Imago” (2023), aims at showing how garments can make an impact on our lives based on the unconscious relations between us and the clothes we wear.
The approximately 20 pieces on display will be accompanied by Camelia’s sketches and illustrations, which underscore her complex creative process. They illustrate the artist`s conscious effort to maintain a small environmental footprint by working with Bay Area garment manufacturers, by using cruelty-free materials, and by producing in limited quantities. The exhibition offers an opportunity to enter the creative lab of a visionary designer whose ideas and works embody today’s most daring fashion creativity.
More information here:
https://www.rciusa.info/events/daring-romanian-american-designer-camelia-skikos-in-focus-at-the-romanian-annual-fashion-showcase
CAMELIA SKIKOSgraduated from the Faculty of Art & Design at the University of Art in Romania, then moved to London where she completed her fashion studies while working as an illustrator and fashion designer for various British brands.After working as a designer for well-known brands such as GAP and LEVI STRAUSS, she launched her own brand "Camelia Skikos", a conceptual women's clothing brand based in San Francisco, launched in 2010.In 2011 she won the "San Francisco Fashion Award" for the best designer of women's clothing.While developing its brand as a creative playground to explore new aesthetic boundaries, Camelia also continues to collaborate with other fashion and technology companies. Since 2014, she has been a consultant at GOOGLE on wearable technology designing smart clothing using interactive textiles.
Upcoming event:
Camelia Skikos is also part of the CURATE International Collections, Fall/Winter 2023 season, February 19–21, 2023. More info about the eventhere.
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Brâncuşi Gallery was inaugurated on September 17, 2021, through an extensive program of renovation and redevelopment of the RCI New York headquarters in Manhattan. The gallery is engaged in promoting Romanian and Romanian-American artists, offering Romanian visual creativity a unique platform on the New York metropolis art scene.
