BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear
Achievements: - October 2013 - Garments featured in SHOWstudio video clip, shot by Nick Knight. - October 2013 - featured in Vogue Fashion Dubai Experience, selected by Vogue Italia and Dubai mall with Scouting Manifesto project. - July 2013 - Latitude Festival Fashion Show presented by Bip Ling and Jamie Lang http://www.latitudefestival.com/line-up/artist/storm-models-jamie-laing-and-bip-ling-present-graduate-fashion-show-central-saint - June 2013 - Raw Designers Fashion Show at the Hoxton Arch. - June 2013 - Brighton Fashion Week- The Sustain Show. http://www.brightonfashionweek.com/anna-bykova/ - May 2013 - Interviewed for Brighton Fashion Week Blog, as an emerging new talent. http://www.brightonfashionweek.com/blog/anna-bykova -June 2013 - exhibition at Brooom Gallery. -May 2013 - Ethical Fashion Show, organized by London College of Fashion. --------------- Experience: -October 2013 (and November 2012)- Future Fabrics Expo. Helping to organize the sustainable fabrics exposition (two consecutive years running)- raising awareness of sustainable fabrics and suppliers, working closely with Centre for Sustainable Fashion. - August- September 2012 - Mary Katrantzou, design intern. Pattern cutting on digital printed fabrics, toiling, research, handcrafting the embellishments, sewing up samples. - January â May 2012 - Iris Van Herpen, design intern- Constructing haute couture garments, working with innovative materials, using varies hand craft techniques, working with leather, toiling, pattern constructing. -March â May 2012 - Georgia Hardinge, design intern- Drafting, tracing, grading and cutting patterns. links: http://www.notjustalabel.com/anna_bykova http://annabykova.tumblr.com/ http://www.pinterest.com/annabykova/ https://twitter.com/annabykovaBOOM http://abykova1.wix.com/anna -------------------------- In my designs I like to tame the essence of psychedelic free-spirit with elegance of refined aesthetics. I am an inventor; I experiment with innovative techniques, unorthodox materials and compose new formulas. Also I seek to invent designs that donât only look intriguing, but also enhance well-being in our society, culture and environment, creating balance and sustainability. I look for sustainable innovations; this makes the design process more challenging and purposeful, creating a whole new mission for me as a fashion designer. I research into primitive ethnic techniques of different cultures, and mix them with advances in technology to create my own vision of the future. My main aim is sustainability and innovation, which results in my signature look as futuristic and ethnic. In my latest collection I explore the idea of esotericism. This is a theory that there is something beyond the materialistic world, which we can not rationalize with our 5 senses, branching out into phenomena of spirituality and the new age movement. New age movement draws the ideas from ancient and perennial wisdom teachings seek to gain higher knowledge of our being, such as Buddhism, ancient Maya, Hinduism, Aztecs, also scientific theories, such as the chaos theory blur the line between science and religion. People that are part of the contemporary new age movement tend to be interested in travelling. A sleeping bag would be one of the main items carried by them since itâs easily fold-able. There from comes the decision to marry the ideas of re-incarnation, travelling, and sustainability (up cycling and deconstruction of sleeping bags). http://abykova1.wix.com/anna http://annabykova.tumblr.com/