Julia Nikolaeva usually works in a light-minded manner, creating bouffant forms and combining different materials. Her perfect sense of colours and absence of fussy details makes the looks stylish, laconic and elegant.

No hills, no waist, no tight pants or tops – such a boyish style can characterize the latest collection by Julia Nikolaeva.

“We always make our collections out of waist, not sexual, not glamorous, but very tactile – nothing new,” Julia says. “Practically all our clothes, even those made of stiff metal are very gentle to the body.”

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Wide bouffant dresses come with long socks over the knee with flat boots or high riding boots, massive bags, and round black rimed glasses, short velvet skirts or shorts go together with oversized cashmere coats or loose tops.

“This collection is not addressed. It happens [collections] have a concrete address, and this one is just winter. It’s made in winter’s colors: brown, beige, black, grey all together with coral red,” Nikolaeva explains.

Materials: velvet, strange fabrics with metal, cashmere as always, and crepe de Chine. Plain goat fur is used to underline the designer’s style.

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Julia Nikolaeva is a chemist. But it’s no surprise she chose another way of life: she was raised into a creative family, where everybody could draw well and do handiwork. Julia has always wanted to become a professional artist. Her talent was revealed by her mother, Julia says.

”To create for me is possibility to experience new sensations, it merges your energy and energy of other people with one supplementing another, instead of disturbing or contradicting,” Julia Nikolaeva says.

In 1992 Julia established her own studio. Through the years she has been working with theatrical and cinema costumes and won several prizes in this sphere.

Diana El-Bakri, RT