NIKA DANIELSKA. construction art in fashion.

A follow up blog from my IS FASHION ART? blog post, where I will be delving deeper into Fashion designers that cross the binary between fashion and fine art.

Nika Danielska is a Polish alternative costume and fashion designer who creates wearable artistic objects based mainly on skeletal designs. Corsets, spines, collars and masks are all included throughout her many collections. Her art has once been described as “blurring the lines between pain and couture with frightening demeanour”. With only 5000 follows on Instagram Nika speaks through her work and exhibition's rather than overindulgence on social media and there is hardly any basic information about her on the web too. I really respect and admire this especially in the 21st century.

However, there is a video on her website where she won the 2018 World of Wearable Art Awards Ceremony with her piece “WOW Under the Microscope” Section Winner

2018 Nika Danielska WOW Under the Microscope Section Winner, Supreme WOW Award Runner Up - YouTube

The phase Wearable Art is the perfect summery of the creators I find inspiring in the industry; another example of one is Iris van Herpen who is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship.

Iris van Herpen started her label in 2007 after interning at Alexander McQueen in London and studying Fashion Design at ArtEZ. At the time she was primarily focussed on simple cloth fashion however she took a jump into architecture when collaborating with Ben Crouwel Architects, a 65-person business. "Collaboration is at the heart of our practice. Excellent architecture starts with an open mind: through curiosity, attentive listening, and detailed research we are able to reveal the question behind the question.” Together they created 'Water' dress. Which inspired her to continue collaboration with other disciplines and to start working with technology. Now in 2022 Iris Van Herpen is the world-leading name for high-tech fashion.

I would say Iris is the closes mainstream competitor of style to Nika, there work has similar outlines and I feel their creative inspiration may have worked off one another. Iris however is a known name within the industry and her work and fame is only growing where Nika, as previously covered is still super underground but this really suits her, it adds a whole new layer or mystery and speciality to her being.