Final collections at Ljubljana Fashion Week 2025
At Ljubljana Fashion Week 2025, the third-year Fashion and Textiles students of the Faculty of Design proudly presented their final collections under the mentorship of Assoc. Prof. Matea Benedetti, with technical and professional support by Lidija Rotar.
These collections represent the culmination of several years of study, creative growth, and a deep understanding of fashion as a cultural, aesthetic, and socially responsible expression. The students combined personal storytelling, experimental approaches, and contemporary sustainable values, resulting in authentic, innovative, and thoughtfully developed fashion narratives.
Each collection reflects an individual design vision, a refined sense of materiality, silhouette, and the communicative power of clothing. We invite you to explore their creative worlds and discover the diversity of ideas that together shape the future of Slovenian fashion.
Maša Vajd: RE-FRACTURE
The collection Re-fracture explores the contrasts between fragility and strength, transience and permanence. Its central material is women’s nylon stockings – a symbol of everyday consumption, delicacy, and vulnerability. Here, they take on an entirely new role: they become the primary textile, the structural element of forms, volumes, and textures.
Each stocking has already experienced its first “fracture” – torn, worn out, discarded. The damage, cracks, and imperfections are no longer flaws – they become the main ornament, the highlight, the focus. Two additional materials stand in contrast: 100% cotton denim and sheepskin. This establishes a tension between light and heavy, transparent and solid, decaying and eternal.
The silhouettes are asymmetrical, layered, and intentionally imperfect, with elements of hand finishing that emphasize the individuality of each piece. The garments act as a kind of contemporary armor – a fragile, transparent skin that conceals strength, resistance, and defiance.
In a world where everything ages, breaks, and is discarded at a terrifying speed, Re-fracture redirects attention to the value of the damaged, the worn, and the torn. It is a tribute to all “imperfect” things that are, in truth, part of the process of growth, change, and creation.
The stockings in this collection have surpassed their original life span, yet precisely because of the traces of wear, they become unique – they tell stories of life, use, and time. In this new form, supported by the robustness of denim and leather, these delicate nylons are stronger than ever.
Geja Šušteršič: HUNTING FOR STYLE
A contemporary interpretation of tribal symbolism transfers distinctive iconography into elegant silhouettes and oversized cuts that transform into an urban armor, while prints revive ancient traditions. Each garment merges the contrast between the rawness of animal patterns and the sophistication of corporate fashion. Dresses, coats, and blazers are no longer just business uniforms but carry the same power that tribes once expressed through animal skins.
The collection builds a bridge between the past and the present and raises the question: who is truly more civilized – human or animal? In a world where everyday life has become another form of hunting, clothing turns into a status symbol, protection, and a tool of self-expression.
Karin Glavina: NACRE
The collection combines a touch of summer with minimalist yet bold aesthetic elegance, expressed through refined silhouettes. Inspiration flows through the organic forms of sea waves, shells, and coastal sand textures, reflected in the subtle play of textures and details.
Urh Jaklič: DECONSTRUCT
“WE DECONSTRUCT THE FAMILIAR, TO CRAFT GARMENTS THAT ECHO WITH THE BEAUTY OF DISTORTION AND THE GRACE OF RUIN.”
The DECONSTRUCT collection reimagines dressing through the lens of creative destruction. There is no place for perfection here – only for the raw beauty found in decay, wear, and re-use. The garments are crafted from recycled materials that carry the memory of previous lives. Pieces of the past are joined into new wholes that express not only aesthetics but also environmental responsibility and awareness of our impact on the world around us.
The clothing is made from denim (dark blue, grey, and black), cotton (beige-brown), and knitwear (black). These materials and colors stand in deliberate contrast. The collection evokes a gothic, post-apocalyptic, industrial, and grungy-punk vibe – an aesthetic that has accompanied the designer for many years.
Nina Treven: CLONES
The CLONES collection stems from the idea of algorithms, trend cycles, and the visual economy of platforms that create a sense of “uniformity,” where individuality becomes replaceable. The monochrome black palette acts as a metaphor for a dystopian future and erased identity; negative spaces (cut-outs) and silver metallic elements introduce traces of individuality that resist homogenization.
The designs merge comfort, protection, and essential streetwear elements (hoodies, tracksuits, oversized silhouettes, hoods, and volume) with high-end finishing and contrasts between textures (matte/glossy; soft/hard).
Neža Plestenjak: La Silhouette Secrète
The collection intertwines the historical elegance of late 19th-century France with contemporary avant-garde. Strong silhouettes and structured tailoring meet playful proportions and daring volumes. These garments are not mere everyday pieces but visual manifestos of identity, individuality, and artistic expression.
Aida Mustafić: NOOR
The NOOR collection is a tribute to femininity, elegance, and the eternal play of light. It draws inspiration from the rich heritage of Arabic architecture, particularly from mashrabiyah patterns, where light and shadow intertwine in refined geometries. This sense of architectural harmony is translated into garments, where carefully sewn cords create three-dimensional structures that evoke movement and depth.
Each piece is the result of countless hours of handcrafting, with selected designs brought to life through the addition of meticulously stitched beads. These delicate details can be read as a contemporary homage to stained glass—colorful windows that refract light into rainbow hues.
In this way, the collection transcends mere clothing and becomes wearable art. NOOR is haute couture that speaks not only of fashion, but of a story—a story of women who carry both strength and tenderness within. It is light captured in fabric, an expression of elegance unafraid to reveal its sophistication, and a reminder that what is handmade is always the most precious.
Edita Kapš Šikonja: THE DOLL CHRONICLES
The collection draws from the world of porcelain dolls – long-standing symbols of perfection: untouchable, silent, motionless. Their beauty is idealized but voiceless, without bodily freedom. Within this silence lies a question: what does it mean to be a woman when she is expected to be above all a beautiful image?
Through baby doll aesthetics, playful proportions, and ribbons adorning the garments as symbols of neatness and girlish innocence, the doll is brought back to life. Amplified shapes, exaggerated femininity, and delicate decorations transform into a statement: the female body is not an ornament but a space of strength, play, and freedom.
What once embodied passivity now comes alive as an act of defiance. Inspired by the nostalgia of our grandmothers – their dreams of beautiful dresses once worn only by dolls – this collection redirects that desire: today, the dress is no longer a symbol of silent admiration but a story of women reclaiming beauty as an expression of will, identity, and power.
This collection is thus a poetic manifesto of femininity: playful, self-aware, soft, yet never submissive. Bows, baby-doll silhouettes, and porcelain aesthetics become the language through which it speaks of the body, beauty, and autonomy. The woman here is not an object, but a subject – one who shows herself, plays, and expresses her fullness.
