Nataliya Gross.
Fashion designer, founder and creative inspirer of the conceptual women's clothing brand MALITE.
Her collections took part in fashion week shows and participated in exhibitions.She is a graduate of the British Higher School Of Art & Design.Explores the inner world of a person, his feelings and emotions, examines this world under a magnifying glass and through the prism of optical illusions, looking for the identity of the incompatible and the contrast of the similar, embodies it in shape and silhouette, texture and dynamics.
Experimenting on her reality, Natalia conveys this in the shapes and proportions of coats, trousers, dresses. Combines static and dynamic, sharp and smooth, rough and gentle, playing with contrasts, breaking proportions and distorting silhouettes.
Education.
2020-2022 British Higher School of Design, Fashion Design
Since 2022, she has been a certified fashion designer, founder of the MALITE brand
"I think the point is not in clothes. But there are clothes with meaning. The clothes you start wearing become like a second skin, because they fit perfectly into your inner world, create a protective shell for it, hide those feelings that you don't want to show. And conversely, it makes you shine brightly, feel, touch. To your soul. Breathe. To listen to your heart. I create just such clothes." Nataliya Gross.
The process of creating clothes. Acrylic painting. Coat made of textured eco-leather with a fur collar.
MALITE means "beginning" in Igbo, one of the languages of the African tribes.
What else are MALITE clothes about?
This is OMINIRA - freedom in the Yoruba language. And UAMSHO. The renaissance in Swahili.
MALITE is a story about a man who is strong and free. And that each of us is the beginning. The beginning of himself and the beginning of his rebirth.
MALITE is the inner world of a person, which he wears like clothes.
Human. There is a whole unique universe inside each of us, but we are still a reflection of our surroundings and what is happening, and at the same time our own projection into the world around us. This is the man. Going through different stages, events and inner realizations, a person is always reborn. But this sometimes happens through complete
destruction, deformation, and deconstruction. And then the whole world seems to be one continuous optical illusion. And does man himself exist? Does the world see him
as he really is? A look through the lens of a magnifying glass at people, their feelings and emotions. MALITE.
A designer is always interested in trying something new, inventing and experimenting when creating clothes. Another MALITE experiment was a test sample of a bomber jacket designed specifically for ANTMX.BIONICS, a company that manufactures sports modules for prosthetic legs.The task was to create something extraordinary and as futuristic as possible for the company's stand at the MOSCOW URBAN FORUM-2023. The result was a sample PVC bomber jacket. The prototype of the planned line of TPU jackets of the MALITE brand.Conclusions were drawn - it is not so difficult to work with the material, but it is necessary to take into account the nuances. There is no room for error - every wrong puncture leaves a mark. We need well-developed patterns and perfect tailoring quality from the first time. There were many thoughts about joining the seams due to the perfect plasticity of the material. Overlap. Butt-to-butt treatment with decorative finishing material. Gluing. We settled on the standard - the inner seams were treated with oblique stitching, they are soft and do not scratch the skin.
Moscow Fashion Week 2022
