Saša Hortig
Grey Sheep
Location
zagreb / croatia
University
faculty of textile technology, university of zagreb
Main Manufacturing Countries
My name is Saša Hortig, I'm from Zagreb, Croatia, and I'm second year (and final) MA student at Faculty of Textile Technology.
From the very beginning of my undergraduate study clothing was so much more to me then just trendy pieces of fabric intended to be worn few times and be forgotten and replaced by new pieces of fabric. It was and still is, more then ever, a statement – media almost – that projects my deliberation about cultural, sociological and other phenomena that surrounds me. As time slowly passed by, my hunger for reproducing such fashion design was not. Vice versa, it was bigger than ever.
By the end of undergraduate study my colleague Petra Vuletic and I associated in team called VULETICHORTIG and competed on International jury competition for fashion design students called Fashion Wardrobe, where we both were acquainted with the whole process of clothes design and manufacture, from sketch to finished product. We won the second place and chance to be a part of a prestigious fashion week. After a while we purchased another competition for best young designers named Portanova Fashion Incubator where we won first place, and in short time found ourselves as a part of Cro A Porter – biggest fashion week in Croatia and region. Quick evolvent from student events to most respectable fashion weeks in Croatia gave me a big insight in real fashion world.
