Diana Nagorna belongs to the fashion world: runway shows, beautiful models, professionals at work ensuring that every detail corresponds to her enchanted and sensual vision of femininity.
Diana studied at the Donetsk State School of Art and later at Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts in her native Ukraine and she came across the technique of felting, which she fell in love with right away: “Wool is flexible and elegant like porcelain, resistant like fire clay, its colors are rich like the wing of an exotic butterfly and it has the warmth of a mother’s hands, that held you when you were little.”
Diana personally designs and creates collections of dozens of pieces of clothing unified by a common theme and evocative names. Through her work, she translates the magic of the eternal feminine and its oneiric, enchanted world into dresses, jackets and skirts.
Her work originates from a notebook full of sketches, as tradition would have it, then from a fashion sketch that Diana Nagorna translates into a paper model and then, after careful calculations to account for shrinkage, into a model made of thin plastic. It is this model that she will use for working with wool, silk, precious fibers, and silky fabrics.
She spreads out the wool with care, so that the natural shrinkage of the fibers during the felting process adapt perfectly to the shape of the body, aligning them with the model, diagonally or concentrically, wherever necessary.
She loves composite surfaces, three-dimensional effects, and including opaque fibers to contrast the sheen of the silk and viscose (which is even shinier than silk!). She chooses iridescent fabrics, making her clothes into a very close-fitting and very soft mermaid-like second skin. She creates jackets that are true sculptures, in which the protruding elements are aligned with the movement of the arms or decorate the voluminous and expertly embossed sleeves.
This tiny, young Ukranian creator studies every detail. Her accessories, colorful and highly-tactile scarves, shoes and bags are precious, perfectly manufactured to the most minute detail. Also, to guarantee the best quality, she specially orders her wool, leather, and metal closures for her beautiful bags all from Italy.
We contacted her recently and are pleased to announce that in September she will be our guest in the DHG Art exposition space.
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