Hi there 👋🏻
My name is Nataliya Grimberg.
I am an award-winning fashion tech innovator, creative director and designer.
My name is Nataliya Grimberg.
I am an award-winning fashion tech innovator, creative director and designer.
🧬 I merge art, fashion, sustainability and technology - IRL & in the metaverse - by creating cutting-edge fashion tech experiences and connecting luxury brands with innovative tech companies.
💡Innovation & Project Management
Somnium Space ~ Metaverse platform
MOYA ~ tech company for metaverse luxury & fashion interoperability
We’re Next Prague ~ immersive fashion show event
Umprumshop ~ curated pop-up design shop
Artěl Glass ~ luxury glassware brand
Preciosa ~ luxury crystal company
🧠 Trend Forecasting & Future Foresight
Unique Style Platform
May/Be Bureau
The Visionary
⚗️ Education
~ MBA Fashion Technology, International Fashion Academy Paris.
~ BA degree in Fashion Design, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
~ BBA - Business Administration, LIGS University.
~ BA Fashion yearly program, Kingston University
& a number of courses from Central Saint Martins London, Villanueva University Madrid and London College of Fashion.
🪅 My works were showcased at ~ Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, NFCastle, Stanley Picker gallery London, Museum of Applied arts in Prague, We’re Next, Designblok, Unexpected Fashion Exhibition, 3D Expo, Ars Electronica Linz, Digital Art Month New York.
🪄 I’ve curated the first-ever VR Metaverse Fashion Week in Somnium Space; Was the first designer in Czechia to implement 3D printing and AI into fashion for the Fashion.stl fashion tech award; Had the first-ever AR & AI-powered dress showcased during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in collaboration with Preciosa.
📰 Featured in ~ Vogue, Business Wire, Dolce Vita, Harpers Bazaar, Svět Chytře, Dailystyle, Jing Daily, Czech Design Mag, Luxury Guide, Rádio Wave, Pavlina Speaks, Wired, ELLE.
🔭 Focusing on ~ Trend Analysis and Creative Consultancy, Digital Fashion and NFT Advisory, Implementation of AR, VR and AI into Fashion & Luxury Strategies, Creative Direction for Next-Gen Social Media Marketing Campaigns, IRL and Metaverse Event Production.
My collection “Alienation” selected and showcased during the inaugural AI Fashion Week in New York.
Digital fashion designs made for Dolce & Gabbana brand. They were on display at the D&G virtual boutique, debuting at Metaverse Fashion Week.
Our co-branded digital apparel collection with D&G will be exclusively airdropped as NFT wearables for DGFamily holders.
I have created the first-ever VR Metaverse Fashion Week, and a mixed reality fashion show that was attended by a cross-reality audience around the world.
The event showcased the most advanced XR technologies available in the metaverse ecosystem, with models wearing VR and Teslasuits while appearing in real-time as branded avatars in a newly built Fashion World in Somnium Space.
The list of partnering organisations included:
Teslasuit, Ready Player Me, DressX, Atrium, Dearch Space, Gravity Layer, The Immersive Kind, Honey, IZY, We’re Next Prague, Style Protocol, Unstitched, Alkali, Artsies Collective, Fashion Friday, Cultivate, ISG, Century 21 NYC, Digital Fashion Collective and others.
Showcased on Mercedes-Benz Prague Fashion Week at the Master of Crystal by Preciosa show.
Satin print on one half of the dress is created with Artificial Intelligence and is covered in Preciosa crystals. This is how AI sees light refractions made by delicate crystal components.
The other half - black - features a QR code made of crystals that lead to an AR filter made specifically for this dress. It changes the black half into a celestial animation featuring birth and decay of crystals.
Showcased at the We’re Next Prague Fashion Show.
In this augmented reality fabric collection I explore physical and digital fashion and its interconnection using special software and artificial intelligence engines in the creation process.
Living in the current fluid reality, we can easily adjust what we already have in our wardrobe by using AR and VR technologies without the need to buy new clothes. Any black capsule wardrobe can become infused with a print created by artificial intelligence in a second - you only need a phone in your hand (which you, probably, already do). This is not just a concept, but a functioning fashion tech.
Exhibited during Art Electronica Linz, Artsemestr and Designblok.
Collaboration between a real human being and artificial intelligence. Dream team consisting of impersonated AI girls - Siri, Alexa and Alisa - was involved in the creation of a digitally printed fashion collection, merging different dimensions and realities.
I have asked them questions such as "Hey Siri, what do you look like?", "Alexa, what would you wear if you were real?" and "Alisa, what beauty means to you?" and created both silhouettes and prints according to their “wishes”.
Existing only virtually, this collection could be viewed anywhere via AR technology.
I found inspiration in the process of deconstruction of historical garments and unexpected assemblage in 3D programs.
A philosophical ideal of ancient Greeks who believed that each person should have a harmonious blend (sometimes called balance) of physical, mental, and spiritual aspects are all translated into the language of virtual garments.
Exhibited on the Unexpected Fashion Exhibition and during 3D EXPO.
3d printed neo-victorian collection showcased on a fashion show in La Fabrica for the Fashion.stl competition.
First 3D printed collection consisting of a dress, corset, and accessories ever created in Czechia at that time.
Why the future belongs to digital fashion?
Oli Egler, 8/01/2022
Clothes you can only wear virtually.
Pavlína Louženská, 10/04/2021
The best from Mercedes-Benz Prague Fashion Week.
Veronika Rupert, 8/09/2021
Unique fashion show WE'RE NEXT will be presenting emerging fashion designers for the fifth time
Lucie Tomišková, 18/08/2020
WE’RE NEXT already on September 10th
17/08/2020
Czech design students from UMPRUM exhibit at the Austrian Ars Electronica.
Ondřej Krynek, 3/09/2018
ASCHER CHALLENGE: from the showcase to the streets.
Lenore Jurkyová, 2/2019
Blockparty Partners with CADAF for Digital Art Month to Celebrate a New Age of Art and Help Reinvigorate NYC Neighborhoods
1/10/2020