Irina Milijić

Irina Milijić, born in 1980, lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She obtained her Master's degree in Textile and fashion design and works in various fields of fashion and art. She is an independent fashion designer with her own brand NEON RABBIT. Her fashion creations are one-offs based on individualism with casual appeal of "alternative". She utilizes subcultural tendencies and intersects them with a peculiar 21st century way of life and tech.

Irina is best known through her work in fashion, but she works with a wider range of media. As a freelance artist she is a fashion writer and co-founder of ATELIER DRAGONFLY, () fashion and photography magazine and she fuses fashion, textile and art.

Her first art installations were exploring the vastness of city space with large size textile installations within the cities of Slovenia. Fashion shows were transformed into art performances focusing on contemporary issues of textile waist and the new possibilities of upcycling. Her official journey as a painter started with a first solo painting exhibition for her Master’s degree many years ago…and it continues.

Master's of Textile and fashion design.
Department of Textiles, Graphic Arts and Design,
Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Engineering,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

- Deconstruction, solo exhibition at Barabuk, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Group exhibition, painting on canvas, Eating Warhol, DLUM Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia.
- Textile installation, KIBLA multimedia center, Maribor, Slovenia.
- Povodni mož, large textile and wire installation, Ljubljana city center, Slovenia.
- Snail, large textile and wire installation.
- Space, group exhibition, Idrija lace installation, Idrija, Slovenia.
- Recycle, textile exhibition, Ljubljana.
- Women, group exhibition, Idrija lace installation, Idrija, Slovenia.
- Upcycle fashion, fashion show, Ljubljana.
- 2019 Art expo Ljubljana, exhibition of paintings on canvas and fashion items.