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Katarina Rimarcikova

Profession
Subject Leader and Senior Lecturer
College
London College of Fashion
Person Type
Staff
Katarina Rimarcikova

Biography

Katarina is Fashion Art Subject Leader and Senior Lecturer in Fashion, Design, Media and Management for postgraduate courses at London College of Fashion .

Katarina launched the first Collaborative Unit across the graduate school in 14/15 and is constantly working and developing the concept of collaboration at LCF and with fashion industry. Katarina founded her luxury womenswear label in 2006 in her Paris atelier, having also worked at the renowned Parsons Paris school of Art and Design for 8 years as Professor and Draping Specialist and developing curriculum and concepts for industry projects for PP Fashion Department.

She works on cross-disciplinary projects, collaborating with artists, designers, photographers, neuroscientists and psychologists and has led many interactions academic and art & design projects and collaborations.

Katarina is the Creative Director and CEO of the CarteBlanche atelier d’art & design, the first unique gallery/concept store in Central Europe to introduce and combine beautiful and timeless design with integrity.

Katarina has an eye for new and hidden talented designers creating work with substance, thought, passion and high quality materials and production. She has developed unique relationships and productions with rare manufacturers in France and Italy. Katarina graduated from Central Saint Martins and has worked for many luxury designers such as Alexander McQueen, Savile Row, Tom Ford at Gucci.

Interview

What inspires you about what you do?

I am very passionate and extremely curious, I need to keep pushing myself to learn more in fields I am interested and work in. Interacting and working with students can be very exciting and challenging, it keeps one on their toes.

Interacting and working with students can be very exciting and challenging, it keeps one on their toes.

What kinds of work do you do with the students?

Lectures, talks, discussion, project discussions, tutorials, consultancies, design and entrepreneurial initiatives development.

What makes LCF unique?

The “cocktail” of people, courses and professionals and a central London location.

What’s the best thing about the students at LCF?

Their international scope and background, the way they share their stories, and express their stories through their projects.

Links

Postgraduate courses in Fashion Design

London College of Fashion

Contact

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7514 7400

Address

105 Carpenter's Road
London

E20 2AR