Interview with Vladimira Dancova

Beacause I feel, that people need art, beauty and design to be happier in their lifes. Everybody likes to see something new and something what he finds beautiful.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer. It´s my big dream from my childhood and I just try to reach it.

I make the fashion illustrations, collages, figure studies and small interior accessories from textile. But the most I like to design clothes.

I am not a design legend. I am young fashion designer too, and maybe it is cliché, but it works the best. Never give up and try it again.

Good design is the presence, a really good design is the past, presence and the future. If it is good or really good design we will see after time. Perfect design has to be timeless.

The price is always the same as the customer is willing to pay for concrete design.

I would like to make special garment for Johnny Depp.

Limited edition of socks with unique pattern, which is copying your musles on feet.

It is a lot of names, so I will write only few. Raf Simons, Heider Ackerman, Viviene Westwood, Demna Gvasalia and the brand Vetements, Karl Lagerfeld, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Frantisek Kupka and others.

I love small black dress designed by Coco Channel. I love them because they are timeless. It is almost one hundred years ago and it´s still trendy, and always be.

I think it is my latest collection - Transformation - BackpackJack and exclusive sweaters and socks. I think this designs are really new, look good, have an idea and concept and they are practical.

I don´t know. I think I am better designer because I disscus and consult my works with other people. And of course I always learn on my own mistakes. The more designs, the more mistakes a person makes, so he can learn from them. This moves the designer further.

Maybe I would be actress.

For me design is the way how I can display myself. Design things makes me happier every day, because they are lovely for my eyes and usefull for my hands. The things what you have around you, in your home or what you wear helps you feel better.

My mother.

Great teacher.

To participate in the design competitions is the best way.

I would like to found my own brand and produce my designs to public.

Designs, that come to real production and people can buy it, afford it and wear it. Because I think every design should fulfill its role and that is the wearability in fashion.

It depends on the complexity of the object. The longest process is to create the right technology and materials. On average I think it can be 2 or 3 months. From an idea to the real prototype is a long way of fitting, thinking and working.

I always start with finding inspiration. Inspiration is everywhere, so I just need to let my mind open. It helps, when I am meditating, or walking in nature where is calm and silence. I always take my sketch book with me and then I just draw something. Plants, flowers, view, trees, it doesn´t matter. Just thinking and drawing. When I have an idea I transform it to the garment. I create pattern, technology, shape, practical properties, select materials and create a collection concept.

Let my mind open

Technology has maybe 65% of all design. It is very important and often determines the appearance of the design. Sometimes I have the strict vision, but during the realization I see it doesn´t work. So I have to change material or shape of the garment. And it is everything about technology.

I use mostly Adobe Systems for editing illustrations and preparing documentations, porfolio and other prezentations.

Each designer has some concept of his collection or design and the colour is perfect way how to explain designer´s mood and idea. Colours also have physical role. Through materials and ambient I also catch the concept and include the customer to my idea.

Why did not it come to me before?

I am currently working alone, but I would like to try to collaborate with someone. I believe that more creative people, can make more creative things together than separately.

My teacher and then my close family.

I love to wake up and go to my atelier. That feel that I can do all things I like and they make me happy. I am motivated with my customers and progress. When I see my designs are succesful and people like it and want it.

No it wasn´t. Everybody said "It is hard work and earn money as a designer." But I have always had big suport from my mother.

People will stop work, walk, eat, talk and their lives will be only virtual.

I am young designer and I currently study Fashion design. I do not have a company, but I am working on my own brand .

For me design is the way how I can display myself. Design things makes me happier every day, because they are lovely for my eyes and usefull for my hands. The things what you have around you, in your home or what you wear helps you feel better.

Street style fashion and clothes for every day wearing.

At this time I am designing work uniforms for company, and it is my first experience.

It depends on my current collection or clothing. I like designing prints and patterns on synthetic materials. But I also like to work with natural material such as cotton or wool. My technology is always based on the perfect cut and shape of the garment.

When someone or something inspires me. People, music, place.. everything.

First of all, I will choose an imaginative customer. Then I imagine his needs and I try to satisfy them when designing. In my opinion, however, it is most important to wear clothing in fashion.

I feel some kind of freedom. You can let your mind and imagination be free and put yourself to the something new. It doesn´t matter if it is garment, painting, drawing or furniture. It´s as something is rise from the ash.

Every time it is very special feeling, because not each design is always realized, so it is nice to see your best idea goes real.

Aesthetic appearance, for sure, and practicality. Then very important is marketing, price, prezentation, advertisement and right selectation of customer.

A Harmony of apperiance, if it is practical or not and how can I use it and the idea.

Designer should satisfy needs of people and society, with regard to enviroment. If we want to make and enjoy design, we have to be considerate to our nature. But it is a difficult task.

Future of design is absolutely in new technologies. Evolving of materials, computers and visions. On the other side is important to maintain traditions and our cultures. We need to preserve and transfer our heritage to other generations.

My last exhibition was in March 2017, in Prague, Gallery one and it was a combined exhibition of several students. The next I´d like to have on Mercedez-Benz Fashion week.

Inspiration is everywhere, so I just need to let my mind open. It helps, when I am meditating, or walking in nature where is calm and silence. I try to be connect with nature and draw energy from it. I sketch a lot everytime, so I have all my ideas on the paper. It is
a lot about my curent mood and what I want to share through the collection. Often I visit galleries, check fashion trends and I am interested in other sections of design and art.

I try to work with young people and meet their needs. Through fashion, I display my spirit and attitude to the world, and I want young people to do it too. My style is based on comfort and wearable clothing. Fashion is not just art for me, but also a challenge to incorporate other features into one - visual effect, new design, new idea, originality, comfort and variability. I'm looking for a middle way between a fashionable object and a ready-to-wear garment. A design that is simple but original. Something that is new but inspired by history. It's a long way of discovering art, life, design and me.

I come from a small town in Slovakia, but I live and study in Prague, in the Czech republic. Here are more oportunities for my work and better up-country than in Slovakia. Of course, both have beautiful culture heritage. When I am in Prague I draw the inspiration from multicultural place, people and architecture. When I am at home in Slovakia, my source of inspiration is nature, mountains and calm. Different places, different designs and the best result.

Companies should not be afraid to collaborate with designers. Good design can increase the production and the company's productivity.
It not only about good or bad designer, but it is also about putting the right product on the market at the right time. If it is good or bad designer, companies have to try out.

I always start with finding inspiration. Inspiration is everywhere, so I just need to let my mind open. It helps, when I am meditating, or walking in nature where is calm and silence. I always take my sketch book with me and then I just draw something. Plants, flowers, view, trees, it doesn´t matter. Just thinking and drawing. When I have an idea I transform it to the garment. I create pattern, technology, shape, practical properties, select materials and create a collection concept. Then I continue to the realization. I drape and fit on a figure or model, I look at proportions and fine the details. The rest is sewing by hand or by machine.

Every day I use a Gustav Klimpt porcelain cup. Then there is my linocut, Callendar from my friend artist "Neznamy", with his graphics, Handmade choker from silver and ebony wood from my friend Majda and own production jacket in wardrobe.

I feel to be gifted, to do the work of designer. I love to make things by hand and know there is someone who will be happy with it. It is beautiful to see people like they enjoy and wear my designs and this unrecognizable feeling is why I am doing it.
The negative is, that many designers and artists are under big pressure and often have to work with many restrictions. Because of clients, companies, business and many other things.

Let my mind open.

Endurance, creativity, mettle, flexibility, positivity, courage, tolerance, humility and never give up.

My sketchbook and pencils are always with me, you never know where you can get the best idea. Then I work a lot in my laptop, for research. And of course needle, thread, sccisors and pins everywhere.

Sometimes it's really hard to manage your time. I'm trying to work and distribute my time. But before the deadline, I'm always in a hurry.

It depends on the complexity of the object. The longest process is to create the right technology and materials. On average I think it can be 2 months. From an idea to the real prototype is a long way of fitting, thinking and working.

Where should I wear it?

I absolutely love design fashion. For me it is the best way how I can show my attitude, my opinions, my art. And the best thing for me is, when people can wear it and use it.

I would like to stay in Fashion design and continue studying at University abroad.

I work and suggest myself, but I often consult my sketches with other people, because it is important for me to have a different view. I try to consult with people in the fashion industry and on the other hand with people from another section. They have different opinions, everytime. I am averaging them and trying to develop the design in the best way

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