WE ARE ALL CONNECTED II/Bulgarian Triennial of MINI TEXTILE 2023 Painting

Dimana Nakova holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fashion & Textile Design from University of Technology Sydney, Australia. During her studies she interned with some Australian fashion designers and worked as a fashion designer assistant and a couture dressmaker for some of the most prestigious bridal boutiques in Sydney. In 2003, Dimana Nakova established her own label IXTYS (https://atelierixtys.com/) and opened a boutique in Sofia/ Bulgaria, Europe. The atelier produced couture wedding and ball gowns, evening and cocktail dresses. Since Spring 2023, Dimana Nakova has started a whole new approach to her fashion collections for IXTYS and has introduced One-of- a-kind textile artworks with each one of them. The textile artworks are meant for interior decorating, but also serve as a starting point and a concept for the created afterwards dresses. The main techniques are hand stitched digital embroidery and beading, 3D. Sustainability It is important for us to think sustainable and make sustainable choices. We make the effort to use excess designer fabrics for at least 90% of our production. Investing in technology, we have brought the embroidery process in our atelier and thus have insured minimal wastage of fabric and thread. Making the embroidery in the atelier requires less courier van transport then before. We use the embroidery threads of Madeira, a winner of The Sustainability Award. Even the smallest fabric remnants left after the cutting and the embroidery process, are further processed. For example, they are cut on small pieces or even unraveled to treads, stitched to a base to form a texture, and then embroidered.