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AVTANDIL Tskvitinidze
Key Qualification:
- Fashion Designer
Education:
- 1990 - 1995 State Academy of Arts of Georgia - Diploma of Painter Conveyed with Honors
- 1979 - 1990 Secondary School N 2 - Secondary School Diploma Conveyed with Distinctions
Professional Experience:
- 2000 Present Fashion House "Avtandil" - Director; Designer
- 1997 2000 Factory of "Imereti" in the city of Kutaisi Designer
Accomplishments and Awards
- 2011 November, Monaco Fashion fair - Collection Spring-Summer 2012
- 2011 November, Kazakhstan Fashion week - Collection Spring-Summer 2012
- 2011 October, Tower Bridge Fashion Show London - Collection Spring-Summer 2012
- 2011 October, Georgian Fashion week - Collection Spring-Summer 2012
- 2011 April, Kazakhstan Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2011-2012
- 2010 November, Hotel Bristol - Paris, France
- 2010 October, Georgian Fashion Week - Collection Spring-Summer 2011
- 2010 October, Ukraine Fashion Week, Kiev - Collection Spring-Summer 2011
- 2010 March, Georgian Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2010-2011
- 2010 March, Kiev Fashion Week, Ukraine - Collection Fall-winter 2010-2011
- 2009 October, Kazakhstan Fashion Week, Almaty - Collection Spring-Summer 2010
- 2009 October, Tbilisi Fashion Week, Georgia - Collection Spring-Summer 2010
- 2009 March, Kiev Fashion Week, Ukraine - Collection Fall-Winter 2009-2010
- 2008 December, New Year's Festival at Meidan
- 2008 October, Kiev Fashion week - Collection Spring-Summer 2009
- 2008 March Athens Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2008-2009
- 2007 october Athens Fashion week - Collection Spring-summer 2008
- 2007 april Dubai Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2007-2008
- 2007 march Athens Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2007-2008
- 2007 march Kiev Fashion week - Collection Fall-winter 2007-2008
- 2006 december Night office, Tbilisi
- 2006 october Athens Fashion week - Collection Spring-summer 2007
- 2006 october Kiev Fashion week - Collection Spring-summer 2007
- 2006 May "May Fashion", Moscow - Participant
- 2006 March Fashion-week in Moscow - Collection Fall-winter 2006-2007
- 2006 March, Kiev Fashion-week - Collection Fall-winter 2006-2007
- 2005 Became an Honorable Member of Haute-couture Association of Moscow
- 2005 October, Fashion-week in Moscow - Collection Spring-summer 2006
- 2005 September, Kiev Fashion-week - Collection Spring-summer 2006
- 2005 July, Fashion Show in Rome - Collection Spring-summer 2006
- 2005 May, "May Fashion", Moscow - Participant
- 2005 March, Fashion-week in Moscow - Collection Fall-winter
- 2002-2004 Three times awarded with a prize of "The Best Designer of the Year" in Georgia
- 2004 March, Russian-Fashion-week - Collection Fall-winter 2005
- 2004 October, Russian-Fashion-week - Collection Spring-summer 2005
- 2003 March, Russian-Fashion-week - Collection Fall-winter 2004
"Discovery of the Week"
- 2003 "Asian Night", Georgia - Collection Spring-summer 2004
- 2002 "Marlene Dietrich", Georgia - Collection Fall-winter 2003
- 2002 "Women from the past", Georgia - Collection Spring-summer 2003
- 2001 "Spanish bazaar", Georgia - Collection Fall-winter 2002
- 1999 Dec. Sheraton Metechi Palace, Georgia - Collection Spring-summer 2000
- 1996 Festival of Caucasus Designers, Baku
Grand prix winner
- 1995 Young Designers' Competition at the Assembly of Avant-garde - Fashion "AMA", Tbilisi Prize-winner
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A designer started developing in Avtandil Tskvitinidze from childhood. He has been drawing all the time, basically women, but the most important was that he has been inventing clothes for them. At thirteen-year age Avtandil decided that time has come to make a reality of his sketches. Since that day his mother has been wearing clothes made by her son's sketches and later made by Avtandil himself. So, she became his first client, and child's hobby became his life-work. The young man graduated from the Academy of Arts of Georgia and passed training at the House of Gucci.
The first step of designer Avtandil Tskvitinidze was participation in the young designers' competition at the Assembly of Avant-garde Fashion "AMA" in Tbilisi in 1995, where he became a prize-winner. In 1996, the young designer won Grand prix at the Festival of Caucasus Designers in Baku.
His success was not set aside and in 1999, Avtandil Tskvitinidze was offered a job at the factory of "Imereti" in the city of Kutaisi. Here, he designed his first prot-a-porter clothing, which has been presented in Tbilisi at the Sheraton Metechi Palace on December 10, 1999. His activity has been recognized as a first step in revival of light industry in Georgia.
It is worthy to notice that the aforementioned fashion show was the official opening ceremony for designer's company "Avtandil Tskvitinidze". Two basic directions of company's activity were prot-a-porter clothing and designer work under individual orders. Avtandil Tskvitinidze's clothing obtains the deserved recognition both in business circles, and show business. The company started with such an important business, as designing clothing for entertaining and newscast programs' presenters of some Georgian TV channels as well as video clips of Georgian show business representatives, in 2004 Avtandil was entrusted with creation of parade uniform for Georgia's Olympic team. However, the young designer does not stop on achieved. For the first time in Georgia, Tskvitinidze has created a youth jeans sportswear.
The company "Avtandil Tskvitinidze" gets popularity not only in Georgia, but also abroad. Contracts were made with a network of large fashion shops in Azerbaijan, as well as «MARKIВ» boutique in Moscow. In 2002, due to foreign investments, the company has opened two shops in Baden-Baden and Karlsrue together with footwear designer Anno Domini.
In 2000, Avtandil Tskvitinidze has arranged a fashion show "Graphics" in cooperation with the furniture company "Saba". In 2001, Avtandil Tskvitinidze has won the Festival of Caucasus Designers with his uncommon collection called "Spanish Bazaar". The festival, held in Tbilisi, was headed by Fran?ois Thiellet, the General Manager of Fashion-TV. This collection has impressed the Georgian public and foreign visitors so much that Francis Thiellet has been broadcasting it on Fashion-TV during a month.
In succeeding years, Avtandil has designed a few collections, different in style and spirit, and Georgian public met them with gratitude. During last three years, Avtandil Tskvitinidze was three times awarded with a prize of "The Best Designer of the Year" in Georgia.
Since the company was founded, Avtandil Tskvitinidze has shown freak of the imagination and work of thought in various constructive decisions of his collections. The designer seasonally organizes personal fashion shows, after which the collections are offered for sale in Avtandil Tskvitinidze's House of Fashion. Besides, the assortment of the shop is constantly refreshed.
The potential of the designer does not remain unnoticed; for the time being, the company "Avtandil Tskvitinidze" cooperates with fashion stores in Caucasus, Germany and Russia, offering for sale always new and original exclusive models.
Working in prot-a-porter, Avtandil Tskvitinidze has developed one more fashion line. For the first time in Georgia, the collection of youth jeans sportswear was put on the market under the "AVTANDIL" trade mark.
After buying the controlling interest of the "Imereti" JSC Kutaisi, Georgia - the tailor's factory reequipped according to the world standards, the company "Avtandil Tskvitinidze" started with batch production of prot-a-porter and jeans sportswear. The aforementioned production is refreshed seasonally according to the world tendencies in fashion and is sold both in Georgia and Caucasus. Original accessories are always handicraft done according to Avtandil Tskvitinidze's sketches. The most often these are stylish combination of leather, fur and textiles with beads and natural stones.
Avtandil Tskvitinidze's works are widely covered in press, especially in such magazines as: "Pirveli", "Omega", "Style", "Kakadu", "Defile", "ELLE-Moscow", "Officiel-Moscow", "Book", "Vogue-Moscow", "Collezioni-Milan", "Collezioni-Russia"and others.
"There 30 models in the collection. They are mostly knitted with bead embroidery and silk drawings. Who is Avtandil's muse? She is an orient queen: an arrogant beauty, an open glare, a regal bearing. Ethnic motifs of the collection have serious support from incredibly beautiful accessories (knitted belts and necklaces with gems and metals of antique origin, folk headgears to underline individuality of Avtandil's woman). Gypsy motifs are in the wide range of colors and materials. Rich colors are made even brighter due to the Southern charm of different structures silk, satin, cotton, knitwear. The shoes does correspond to the models (they are bright, on a platform, built by the designer himself."
Daily newspaper of RFW
"The collection by Avtandil Tskvitinidze turned out to be beautiful and laborious. No doubt, it's excellent in color - black items with almost invisible pink trimming, pale blue and brown, pink with gray and chocolate. Laces over wool fabrics plus velvet, satin, fur. His collection leaves the impression of thoughtful and cultural design, love of detail, color and material. Georgia, with its tradition of colorful prints, has a rich culture, You can discover it in the craftwork of the designer Avtandil.."
Suzy Menkes
In 2004, at the Russian Fashion Week (RFW) in Moscow, Avtandil Tskvitinidze showed his autumn-winter collection "Loneliness". The collection is made in soft color spectrum. Unexpected constructive decisions allow combining natural fur "Saga Furs', Scandinavia" with velvet, atlas, velveteen and taffeta; use of elastic band allows to give soft femininity to a silhouette. Volume rose application on the back-side of some goods and large buttons made from fabric emphasize individuality of his collection. Especially for this collection, Avtandil Tskvitinidze has made a number of accessories by "AVTANDIL".
Kommersant, April 2004
"Variety of my collections reflects my state of mind, sometimes black-and-white, sometimes chaotically motley. I work to emphasize essence of the woman at one moment gentle, at another aggressive... "
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