On June 10, 2024, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava presented the graduates of the Fashion Design Studio Tina Zsapka, Jaroslava Poliaková, Viktória Košíková, Filip Fecko, Lenka Vallová, and Rudolf Št’astný with their bachelor and master collections under the guidance of professor and academic painter Julia Sabová.
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Tina Zsapka
Like Fine Vessels presents Tina Zsapka’s women’s wear collection, inspired by archaeological finds. The work combines traditional craftsmanship with modern design and emphasises ecological sustainability. The collection features ten designs with silhouettes and textures inspired by prehistoric and ancient artefacts, using natural materials and techniques such as knitting and felting. The aim is to explore creative possibilities and contribute to a more ecological approach in fashion, while also reflecting historical and philosophical aspects of material culture.
Jaroslava Poliakova
Jaroslava Poliakova’s collection is titled We Are Someone Else and is based on Slovak folk clothing, but looks at it critically. The aim is to connect traditional elements or craft techniques with the present. Important elements of the work are wit, light irony, and playfulness, which are accentuated by the contrast of materials or colours using both traditional and contemporary techniques.
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Viktória Košíková
Viktória Košíková has created a women’s collection called Nereida, which is inspired by the ancient Greek mythology of sea nymphs, known as nereids. The models represent the artist’s personal interpretation of the aesthetics of the underwater environment. The aim was to translate the fairy-tale mythical theme of nereids into clothing with subtle elements of the surreal and poetic.
Filip Feck
For Filip Feck, his Topology perturbation collection was inspired by a dialogical understanding of the world, where language is seen as a tool for understanding. His work focuses on the visual treatment of the physical properties of black holes, which was motivated by the analogical similarities between the hermeneutic horizon and the event horizon. He points out that the acquisition of any new language—in this case, a physical one—expands the horizons of our understanding of the world and, by extension, our understanding of ourselves.
Lenka Vallová
In her collection PROTOPIA: Memories of the Future, Lenka Vallová reflects on the artist’s coming to terms with the state of today’s world through the creation of her own imaginary worlds and dreams full of radically kind hope. The clothing collection is characterised by a return to the primordial relationship between man and nature, materialised in the simplicity and naturalism of the entire collection through the use of experiments with natural dyeing, the choice of clean-cut solutions, or working with linen fabric.
Rudolf Št’astný
Rudolf Št’astný’s capsule collection Transformation focuses on the modularity of clothing and knows no boundaries of gender identity. The garments are designed with attention to technical details, year-round use and support for circular and sustainable textile and garment production. The overall visual of softness and romance of the collection is complemented by the prints by Juraj Straka.
This project was financially supported by the Fund for the Support of Art and the Tatra Banka Foundation, to whom we thank.
