exhibitors
Whoabi
Sabi
Founded in the winter of 2013 in Cluj-Napoca, Whoabi Sabi was born from a lifetime desire to provide distinctive, eclectic, high quality fashion.
The designs are always vibrant, playful and effortless, comprised of contrasting fabrics, statement colour palettes and clean and fluid lines.
Whoabi Sabi designs are proudly designed and crafted in Transylvania, Romania, in limited collections.
(Roxana Cioflica-designer entrepreneur)
Cirlugea
Mihaela
Mihaela Cîrlugea graduated in 2008 the University of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca and in 2010 the Master studies of the same university, the Fashion Design section. She was finalist of the “Arts of Fashion” student contest in Philadelphia(2009) and San Francisco(2010). With these ocasions, Mihaela Cîrlugea took part at the Masterclasses held by Matthieu Blazy, former designer for Raf Simons, nowadays for Martin Margiela, Julie Perrin, colaborator for Hermes, Aurore Thibout winner of the Hyeres contest and Laurence Teillet, former designer for Martin Margiela.
The designer’s main preoccupation is for experimental techniques in exploiting the textile fabric, to obtain unique surfaces. Another direction to create unique pieces is through spontaneous hand painting. The collections are visceral, some dresses are cut directly in the fabric, without any pattern.
Durnea
Emma
I grew up in the heart of my parents’ knitting garment factory, surrounded by clothing patterns and the smell of chalk.
I began as an apprentice, working from scratch on each database individually. After much practice and study, I became a manager and eventually a designer. I was rewarded eventually, receiving contracts with stores hosting only Romanian designers’ creations.
Now leather, cotton, and fine fabrics help me tell my “story”. Everything takes shape in my personal showroom in the historic center of Cluj. As each of us has our own particular taste, we manage to find a look that makes us feel appreciated as powerful and sensual women. My passion and desire is to find this look, always combining styling of rock, avant-garde, and glam.
Tabita
Gliga
Elen's by Tabita Gliga begins with the story of its name ... The story begins dedicating all to her grandmother, unfortunately to her memory.
The refinement, the good taste and decency were qualities inherited from the one who was her "support" during the most important years of her childhood. The need of expression, of sharing the beauty got to maturity and hence Elen's by Tabita Gliga was born.
Elen's concept arose two years ago, two beautiful years ago, time in which we managed to expand to Cluj-Napoca in the Boudoir Designers Boutique in Polus Center, in Sibiu in the All for Art store and Baia Mare and the Belle Designers Boutique in Baia Mare.
Our desire is to continue growing as beautifully as possible and to take this concept further and to bring joy to women through Elen's creations.
Iulia Manciulea
The story is a simple one, yet :)
Iulia Manciulea graduated the University of Arts and Design in Timisoara in 2008 and two years
later, in 2012 the Master of studies of the same university.
After finishing her studies she moved
back home, in Sebes, where she successfully runs her business, known in Transilvania for the hundred of beautiful dresses, after 5 years of hard work and dedication.
9th of November 2009, was the beginning of this adventure with a lot of hard work, attention to
details, and maximum dedication.
Lina by Alina Vlad
Having a call for art, Alina Vlad graduated in 2007 Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca.
Since 2013 she is expressing the artistic side by creating jewelry from natural threads and copper wire.
Lina is part of her name and represent the brand born with passion and desire to create something unique and special.
At the 2nd edition of TIDAFF she will also present her latest collections, ”Solaria” and ”Revival”.
”Lina Contemporary Jewelry Highlight the Feminine Beauty”
Ligia
Mocan
She's talented, young and ambitious!
She knows that a win never comes without a fight and what good quality means in this industry.
Ligia Mocan’s philosophy is: quality not quantity. Her dream is to make quality, unique and extremely beautiful dresses! She designs, creates, alongside her team of seamstresses always keeping beauty and quality as a first priority.
The Mistique Moth
The Mistique Moth is about the metamorphoses of paper into beads and of beads into one-of a-kind jewelry pieces designed to emphasize your uniqueness.
I was learning the paper way by myself, driven by the idea of recycling and creating eco-friendly jewelry. I'm doing it since 2011 and even if i reached a certain level of skill, there is always something new and fun and about it. That's why I can keep my fascination for my paper work and always put my best energy in it.
At TIDAFF I will present you my latest collection, "Counterpoint" created out of old musical sheets. For showing different ways of working with paper, I chosed to also bring "Magic Spirals" collection and "The Path" collection.
I hope you'll enjoy it! "
Lajtar Csilla
LAJTAR by Lajtar Csilla
“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it"
Yves Saint-Laurent
Luminita Balazs
I do not create clothes, I create emotion, feelings.
Ever since I was a child, I used to imagine designs for imaginary clients. I have always loved to work in the world of luxury and design.
Luminita Balazs Fashion has a singular vision: to capture a timelessly elegant and sophisticated look. The result is a series of figure-flattering dresses that are at once sexy and reserved, classy and daring, shockingly simple and attention getting.
I dedicate my collection to those wonderful women who make a difference no matter what they do ,who inspire ,who share love and knowledge ,who are not afraid to dream.
Denise
Berekmeri
Creative Chaos is a very fresh project initiated by my love for decorative art, in all of its forms. Being a textile design student I got into experimenting with different materials, colors and techniques.
As a result I started doing my own products and TIDAFF will host the premier of my succeeded experiments.
3.r.K
3.r.K is a new personal fashion brand born as a new start of a lifestyle, bringing home and make best use of a wide international experience in luxury fashion industry.
Erika, myself, developed as style, work and person, working in the luxury fashion industry inspiring people visually trough instore and window styling by total look creation and styling, following high standards that luxury requires.
3.r.K gets inspiration from the lifestyle I learned living for several years in Milano and working for the #1 British Fashion brand Burberry.
Having a strong styling background 3.r.K offers urban chic handmade pieces that can be easily styled.
Anamaria
Pop
Anamaria Pop, a young licentiate in Textile Arts-Fashion Design and a graduate of the Master Studies Program at the Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca, Fashion Design specialty, has made her debut at the Romanian Fashion Week.
She proved herself even from her college years, when she won First Prize at the National Fashion Design Contest “Inspired”.
She gained a lot of experience in her field by attending several internship programs and partnerships with important brands over the years.
As a perfectionist and detail attentive, the designer Anamaria Pop is very interested in the quality and the comfort of the products she creates.
Mossa Shoes
Mossa Shoes - always made in natural leather , inside and out.
We're also specialized in custom made shoes to create your dream shoes at special prices.
Colours
by Cristina Gavrilut
My name is Cristina and I am passionate about jewelry ... to wear and create them.
After 19 years working in banking, I began to spend quality time making jewelry; at first, I worked with beads, but then I got to work with textiles, crystals and feathers.
After some time, I discovered soutache technique, which I felt in love with: the cords are binded through sewing, in oder to seem stuck and dance along with crystal beads or gemstones, in perfect pirouettes. Jewelry created through this technique has become the superlative of what they once were: French military uniform embroidery."
Felicity Store
My name is Georgiana Lungu and Felicity Store is the most important project of mine. It can be both followed online on the website: www.felicitystore.ro and at fairs around the country. It has been 3 years since the brand was born, since I first started beadworking.
The name was carefully chosen and expresses what I want to show the world: a spectrum of jewelry “with attitude”, childlike and interesting at the same time.
I like to create as much as I like to sale. I consider myself the man of ideas and I am always convinced that there is more space for better. My purpose is to bring something new and to make the Felicity Store’s jewelry carriers to feel special.
FierForArt
by Iulia Cadar
[Hi!] My name is Iulia Cadar and since 2000 and another couple of years I've started weaving polished gemstones and found stones into copper wire.
A novice in this craft, I discover and rediscover things every day, although at times I feel like I myself have invented the copper weave. I like to say about my jewelry that it is the work of an unpublished author of short novels, because as much as time and inspiration allow it, I try to weave a story in each jewelry I make. I learn the value of every stone and wood I use and I see how a material that seems at first common finds its uniqueness and worth once integrated in a piece of jewelry. I learn slow but steadily because I found in copper a flexible teacher.
Ileana Bijoux
Without doubt, the jewel has appeared as a visible continuation of the soul.It always comes to compliment, to put into perspective, to amplify: a state, a thought, a flight.
One might say the jewel is the "keeper of the word" for those who wear it, and which will always tell of the carrier things which might otherwise remain shrouded in mystery...
IVY by Irina Voinea
IVY is a made-to-measure menswear brand, which appeared in 2012 as a response to men who seek to find and develop their own personality through style and clothing.
It encourages individuality and the uniqueness that is in each and every one of us.
IRINA VOINEA, the designer behind IVY, desires to push the frontiers of the fashion industry by letting go of all known patterns and paths we are used to.
The brand is known for the graphic prints developed in the limited edition T-shirt collections as well as re-inventing pattern cutting
Speranta pentru suflet
Let us know each other,
The Hope for Soul Floreşti Association is a sewing workshop that produces and sells tote bags, is a story of successful thoughts for support and community development.
We will accompany you at events, we are going to promote you with embroidered or printed bags, we will support your welcome pack received at conferences and we will replace the plastic bags with custom decorative tote.
Motto: good deeds resistant bags, carrying new ideas and social responsibility!
LexaLexa
The brand LexaLexa under which I laid my thoughts and feelings was born from the love of art and free creation. LexaLexa’s go is to always surprise through well thought lines and sculptural symmetries that give the product a touch of dynamism and passion.A challenging concept is also the combination of textures with energetic attributes such as wood, leather, metal and other materials which blend into each other to provide a special emotion. The contrasting elements that once streamed through the artistic filter lead to the discovery of a fresh and unexpected final product.
LexaLexa is for those who understand beauty as something powerful and interesting with own rules and bold attitude. Unique or limited edition products LexaLexa accessories are dedicated to lovers of art and style.
the artist . alexandra gheorghica
Patore'
The idea of creating the Patore' wooden bow tie came after a really nice Christmas present in 2014.
Without any background in design, we decided to create a business around the idea so we can use our creativity in a totally different way than we do at our profession.
The point off Patore' is that everything is created by us, and we would like to keep it that way in the future too, because this is what makes it exciting for us. Our inspiration comes from different design blogs and from our traveling from last year. It's not a secret, we've got into this business with big hopes and a great desire to grow outside of Romania so we can work in many different countries.
Kristine
Kristine was born from the desire of bringing something new and original , while being in love with the vintage and keeping in mind that a classy accessory is always welcome.
Making high quality bow ties for both men and women, custom made ties and pocket squares. Here you will find a wonderful selection of chic, classy, elegant, cute, expressive and original accessories , most of them being Limited Edition, all handcrafted in the heart of Transilvania.
New line of leather clutches will be available at the fair.
Ruxandra Flueras
I began my career studying fashion design at the University of Arts and Design Cluj-Napoca. Upon graduating Masters in fashion design, I had the opportunity to work in design for myself from the very beginning and slowly growing my knowledge.
The invaluable experience gained from working abroad inspired me to fulfill my lifelong dream and launch my own line, ARMOAR
When I’m designing, I’m inspired by shape, textures, and color. Every design focuses on flattering a real woman's body. My technical knowledge of a garment’s proper fit and design, combined with creative abilities, results in an effortless and wearable line that reflect the kind of woman I am; sensitive, sexy, fun, and delicate.
Şezi
ALL YOU CAN SEAT invites you to sit and eat, and then go visit the city. 6 chairs in the kitchen, 6 points of view. youth!nk that's it? There's more!
A window is an opening, that allows the passage of light, air and sound.
A door is a moving structure, that allows the passage of people, animals, light, air and sound. Both doors and windows have two sides, in and out of space.
A walk in town is a walk through shapes. We try to give people a diffrent way of looking around.
Be an active traveler. ȘEZI at youth!nk hostel. SOON.
ELFiarmaroc
ELFiarmaroc means jewelry with a soul, handcrafted from the heart.
A unique jewelry that carefully preserves a tiny piece of Romania’s beautiful flora.
Buy ELFiarmaroc jewelry and be the first who becomes part of a worldwide movement of preserving nature, understanding it’s value and keeping ancestral traditions.
At TIDAFF I will present you my latest collection, "Elfen Lied".
Ada Balan
Years after, here I am, still experimenting new techniques, new fabrics, recycling old stuff and transforming it into something else.
My intentions are to remain the same child with great eyes wanting to transform all the things around me, to catch the essence of a certain era from the past and bring it in the XXIst Century, filtered through my imagination.
Sometimes I dive into the Middle Ages and work with leather and metals, sometimes I wander through the seventies or eighties, sometimes I’m a rocker or a punk alienated kid, the next day I’m a mademoiselle at the King’s court …
Leather, textile fabrics, metals, paper, plastic, everything is around me will become someday a piece of your wardrobe …
My world, my playground, is filled with colors, textures, scents and sensations, I feel them and I bring them out for you in my personal way.
That’s who I am. Discover me.
INDEE by Diana Magda
Studied Visual Arts at University of Arts and Design Cluj Napoca followed by a Masters Degree in Painting.
Started the INDEE project in 2014, inspired by Romanian traditional elements, nature, some ingredients from the Native American culture and Bohemian Gypsies (Boho-chic) style, all with a final touch of modern.
For the INDEE accessories she reuses natural fur and always use natural materials, like leather, untreated cotton and wool. These are handcrafted in small series in a workhouse, based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. We hope you'll love INDEE accessories as much she enjoys creating them!
She promised that she will have some surprises for you at this TIDAFF edition!
Tatiana Strimbovschi
Tatiana Strimbovschi holds a Master of Fashion Design from University of Arts and Design, Cluj-Napoca. Her debut collection was presented during the Romanian Fashion Week in 2010. She received excellent feedback from fashion bloggers, critics and top fashion magazines.
Afterwards, Tatiana continued to develop and improve her skills by doing a fashion design internship in Belgium 2012 , and then by collaborating with several Romanian brands.
In the present, Tatiana is building her own fashion brand. Her designs combine fine handwork techniques (embroideries, textures) with digital printing.
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Andrea Andras
Andrea András established her own fashion workshop in 2013. Her works are characterized by minimalist lines, clean shapes, graphic textures and surfaces.
She emphasizes greatly on the quality and the execution of the used fabrics.
She uses exclusively natural materials, such as natural silks, woolen, in particular bouclé materials.
The clean garment of the clothing pieces is also extremely important to her. Her designs are casual, comfortable and easy going.
Andrea is looking for the easy to wear shapes, and by this she aims to highlight the simplicity out of the mundane.