Petra Kovacs
Slovakia
Petra Kovacs is a Bratislava, Slovakia based fashion designer. Petra explores the balance between elegant cocktail fashion and playful streetwear style with a healthy, cheeky and naive colourist vision.
The unifying line is the humor and the characteristic girl's fragility. Each collection responds boldly to current global, social or political issues. She fights for rights through her fashion collections, which is always preceeded by her research, the most important process for her creations. Self-irony and a certain satire gives to Petra Kovacs´ work its special style.
Every collection tells a new story, often with a romantic point of view with a large dose of humour and a drop of bitterness, that every romance always brings with itself. Loves unexpected, refined situations in clothing, hidden details. Through significant, colorful expressions for contemporary feminity.
‘Lobster Party’
‘Lobster Party’ is a collection inspired by the magical underwater world and the world of natural virgin beaches, which despite their beauty, carry criticism of the "artificial" lifestyle of noble mistresses. But which is, in a figurative sense, the greedy material lifestyle of all of us.
The main inspiration for the collection comes from environmental problem in the oceans, mainly coral bleaching. The materials themselves and the colour scheme of the collection point to the fading of the coral reef due to climate change. These problems are highlighted, for example, by a lightbox bag with the question "Shell we?" in a romantic orange outfit, or on a second lightbox handbag shining from a luxury restaurant that bears the message: "Be Moral and save the Coral!"
This collection feature pieces such as a white silk outfit which sparkles beautifully like reflections of the sun's rays on the surface of the sea. It is complemented by a shell fastenings and drawstrings that imitate the defence mechanism of fragile sea animals. The most striking outfit, in contrasts of blue and red is inspired by my aunt's corals necklace, I remember from my childhood which has always been like discovering treasures at the bottom of the sea.
