About me
Kukushkina Natalia
Russian fashion designer
I have been doing visual arts my whole life, and I am really interested in creating something new and unique. There was a time in my life, when I used to paint on cars and walls, making graffiti art, but I am keen on traditional art as well. Designing clothes is the closest art to people, and more clothes I create more I get to know people and understand them.

Special skills
· Experience in creating exclusive fashion collections.
· Knowledge in academic drawing, artistic graphics, styling and modelling.
· Knowledge of kinds of fabric, fur, leather, accessories and applied. tools, characteristics, and its speciality.
· Have skills in preparation of curricular and illustrative information.
· Painting on fabric, clothes, illustrations-making, creation of patterns and prints.
· Firm user of PC, skills in programs, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
Personal qualities

· Creative, organized, careful and precise worker.
· Good artistic and aesthetical taste
· Visual thinking and ability to look at the product as a whole
· Ability to listen to the customer, understand their demands and requirements
· Always improve as a professional (attend master-classes, higher my qualification

Education
Kemerovo Regional Art College 2007-2011
The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design 2013-2017

Experience
Freelance 2011-2017
· Graphic design
· Graffiti artist
· Illustrator artist

Tatiana Kotegova's Fasion house, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2017-2018
· Creation of exclusive models and collections
· Participation in fasion shows
· Selection of fabric, materials and tools

Fashion Designer, Kykyshka brand, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2017-2019
· Creation of clothes for individual customers
· Creation of patterns and prints for clothes


Awards
· Member of the festival of young designers "line", 2015
· Participant of St. Petersburg Fashion Week "SPB Fashion Week", 2016
· Participant of the international exhibition in the framework of the 20th festival "salt town - the city of masters", 2016
· Participant of the international competition "Heritage ar-matter: from past to future", 2017
· The winner of the international competition of young designers "Generation NEXT" (direction "costume" / nomination "industrial sample", 2017
· The winner of the international festival of designers "Etnomoda", in the category "Ethno motifs in modern costume", 2017
· Winner of the semi-finals of the international competition of young designers "Russian silhouette", an internship in the fashion house "Tatyana Parfionova", an internship in the fashion house "Tanya Kotegova", an internship in the company Concept Club, 2017
· The winner of the contest "St. Petersburg Beauties" in the nomination "New Name in Design", 2018

· Winner and winner of the 12th international competition of young designers "Russian Silhouette", an internship in the fashion house "Laurel", an internship in the fashion house "Etro", 2018

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Winner of the national prize "Golden Spindle - 2018" in the nomination "Debut", 2019

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Internship in the city of Munich, the company "Laurel", 2019
· Internship in the city of Milan, the fashion house "ETRO", 2019

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