ALEK ZIRA_CREATIVE UNIVERS

CREATIVE UNIVERSE

TOMBOYBelgrade, around 2002

FATHERauto mechanic / auto electric

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGYBertone Birusa / concept car

Sketches made during the studies at Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, around 2002

Editorial shoot with my brother, shirts in menswear, 2005

ARCHITECTUREInterior of Neues Museum, Berlin

REALITY OF THE BODY

Print for bedlinen, 2008

Imagery created for womanswear collection, 2008

Sketches for shoe collection / 3 directions, 2008

Sketches for the first womenswear collection, 2008

Sketches for the first womenswear collection, 2008

Designs made according to the sketches of the womenswear from 2008

Womenswear collection, 2010

Project Step Into is an attempt to bridge the boundaries between different, but in a way similar, artistic disciplines that create a kind of total artwork /Gesamtkunstwerk/in the defined spatial constraints - public spaces / colaboration with photographer Nemanja Maras and architect Iva Cukic, 2012

JAPANHAGAKURE / Hidden Beneath the Leaves - Book of the Samurai - is practical and spiritual guide for a worior and philosophy of cultivating the self.The most valuable sword is worn in the old cover.

HIDDENUNDERCOVER / INVISIBLE / CAMOUFLAGED/ MASKED

Character mask of no ko-omote, young beautiful virgin / photo by Morita ToshiroThis is Noh theatre mask and it represents a young woman who is calm.Traditional Heian beauty : shaved eyebrows, blackened teeth, and neat hair.

Sandals Zori, covered in cane weaving / photo d’Iwamiya Takeji

Sketches made during the studies at Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, around 2004

Sketches made during the studies at Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, around 2002

FIGHTS / WAR

Womenswear collection, 2012 The marble statue of Laocoön and His Sons, Vaticans Museums, Rome

PROCESSperson + mythology / “automatic” sketcing + ratio

AIMS : COLOR / PRINT / TEXTURE

FUTURE IS NOW