Roksanda Ilinčić

Fashion Designer

Belgrade-born Roksanda Ilinčić is a fashion designer based in London, founder of the womenswear brand Roksanda.

During the early nineties, Ilinčić studied at the University of Architecture in Belgrade, going onto study on the MA Womenswear programme at Central Saint Martins. In 2002, two years after her graduation, she launched her eponymous label, making her catwalk debut as part of London Fashion Week in 2005, having won sponsorship from the BFC/Topshop NewGen scheme. She subsequently gained sponsorship a further two times under this initiative, and in 2006 was nominated for the British Fashion Council’s New Designer award. In 2007 and 2008, Ilinčić was a recipient of the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Forward award.

Ilinčić is famed for her romantic and avant-garde fashion sensibility and uses only a small number of idiosyncratic materials when creating her architectural dresses: satin, silk, ribbon and handmade roses. At the beginning of her career, she eschewed conventional methods of presenting her collections, opting instead to stage salon-style shows in offbeat contexts. In a significant shift, for S/S 09, Ilinčić held her first formal runway show in a gallery space as part of London Fashion Week and also launched a collaboration with footwear designer Alejandro Ingellmo.

The designer has also collaborated a number of times across her career, including a 17-piece capsule created with non-profit organisation Malaika and The Outnet, where 10% of sales were be donated to help girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2020, Ilinčić's brand Roksanda collaborated with activewear company Lululemon.

Ilinčić’s designs are stocked internationally, in outlets such as Net-a-Porter, Browns, Harvey Nichols and Matches, and she has exhibited work in her native Belgrade as part of the Applied Arts Biennale, where she was awarded a special prize, and also won first prize in the Smirnoff Fashion Awards. In 2008, she presented her collection as part of the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum’s Fashion in Motion programme. In 2018, the designer curated a contemporary art sale with Sotheby's auction house.

Belgrade-born Roksanda Ilinčić is a fashion designer based in London, founder of the womenswear brand Roksanda.

During the early nineties, Ilinčić studied at the University of Architecture in Belgrade, going onto study on the MA Womenswear programme at Central Saint Martins. In 2002, two years after her graduation, she launched her eponymous label, making her catwalk debut as part of London Fashion Week in 2005, having won sponsorship from the BFC/Topshop NewGen scheme. She subsequently gained sponsorship a further two times under this initiative, and in 2006 was nominated for the British Fashion Council’s New Designer award. In 2007 and 2008, Ilinčić was a recipient of the British Fashion Council’s Fashion Forward award.

Ilinčić is famed for her romantic and avant-garde fashion sensibility and uses only a small number of idiosyncratic materials when creating her architectural dresses: satin, silk, ribbon and handmade roses. At the beginning of her career, she eschewed conventional methods of presenting her collections, opting instead to stage salon-style shows in offbeat contexts. In a significant shift, for S/S 09, Ilinčić held her first formal runway show in a gallery space as part of London Fashion Week and also launched a collaboration with footwear designer Alejandro Ingellmo.

The designer has also collaborated a number of times across her career, including a 17-piece capsule created with non-profit organisation Malaika and The Outnet, where 10% of sales were be donated to help girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2020, Ilinčić's brand Roksanda collaborated with activewear company Lululemon.

Ilinčić’s designs are stocked internationally, in outlets such as Net-a-Porter, Browns, Harvey Nichols and Matches, and she has exhibited work in her native Belgrade as part of the Applied Arts Biennale, where she was awarded a special prize, and also won first prize in the Smirnoff Fashion Awards. In 2008, she presented her collection as part of the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum’s Fashion in Motion programme. In 2018, the designer curated a contemporary art sale with Sotheby's auction house.

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