Photo * Mike Vensel
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Photo * Mike Vensel
Kitten*
Photo * Mike Vensel
DESANKA * FASHION
Interview by Mike Vensel DF: I am Desanka Fasiska and I am a designer. MV: How long have you been designing? DF: I guess all my life, professionally for about 3 or 4 years MV: Where are you from? DF: Los Angeles MV: How has growing up in Los Angeles affected your design? DF: It’s a mixture of growing up in Los Angeles and I’ve lived a lot of other places, I went to school for design in San Francisco and I lived for a little bit in Paris and New York so I cant pigeonhole myself as an LA designer because I feel I was influenced by living a lot of different places. MV: How do you feel about the LA fashion scene? DF: I don’t really feel its so much a of a scene here as it in is other places like Paris and New York or even San Francisco, I feel like LA is more about business and actually making your craft work for you and Becoming a professional designer as opposed to the struggle that you have to endure living and working in other cities. MV: When did you decide you wanted to be a designer? DF: It’s hard to say, I toyed around with it in high school, my mom really pushed me towards going to fashion school. At the time I didn’t know what to do and she decided to send me to fashion school and I realized I really loved it. MV: What makes Desanka unique? DF: I feel like every designer no matter what they do will put themselves into what they do. I am not trying to be the most original designer in the world I just want to make beautiful clothes that girls want to wear.
MV: Can you tell us about your spring collection? DF: Spring 06 was great, it was African safari inspired, I had the idea of a little English girl traveling on a safari in Africa. That’s what it was inspired by. MV: Can you tell us about your fall collection? DF: I am Polish and Serbian, so it’s inspired by the eastern European heritage, I took inspiration from it but its really translated into something modern. MV:What inspires you? DF: Everything inspires me; I don’t want to say there is one particular thing. I really like mystical kind of things, I like traveling but I cant travel as much now that I have this business its always going and going, but I kind of let me design take me on trips that I would like to go on. MV:Who is your customer? DF: My customer is a boutique girl, that likes to shop in boutiques as opposed to department stores, who wants to find something a bit different and a bit more edgy as opposed to what they would find in a department store, but also wants something wearable, something they can wear everyday as opposed to just once and then throw it away MV: What can we expect to see next from you? DF: That’s a secret. MV: What advice can you give to a designer just starting out? DF: Don’t think that is a glamorous life, its really the least glamorous life. It’s a lot of struggle and a lot of money that you have to put out, if you have the talent and you really want to do it then do it For more visit: www.desanka.com
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