Lana Dumitru is a young Romanian fashion
designer from Bucharest who has recently finished her research in London and earned
her PhD in Arts and Fashion.You can consider Lana an artist manifesting her beliefs through fashion as you would find Lana’s clothing in an art gallery or in a museum, rather than in a shop. Her original style comes from the fact that she designs all her visuals and patterns, transforming pure white fabrics into strong unique conceptual pieces through the means of digital printing.
She has been named the best young Romanian fashion designer of 2015 ( Forbes Award) and she was included by Forbes in Top 30 under 30.
Her work has been showcased at London
Fashion Week 2014/International Fashion Showcase,
Holon Design Museum, Kalmar Art Museum and
Malmö Design Centre Sweden, Salone del Mobile
Milano, Horniman Museum London, National Village
Museum Bucharest, Cultural Institutes, Art Galleries,
Design Weeks and more.
Lana is the first Romanian designer to oficially collaborate with Puma in a custom print jacket coined “T7 Etno Shake Puma by Lana” and added to her credentials the quality of being a previous member of the digital design team for Mary Katrantzou in London.
With twelve distinct collections in her portfolio which have consisted, until now, in “wearable opinions”- as she describes her clothes- Lana has won the jury’s appreciation in various design competitions: Puma Creativity Award, Pasarela/Institut Francais de la Mode contest finalist, Elle Decoration- Design of the year nominee- Lana for Photoliu, Young Creative Chevrolet Award-Romania, product design awards, etc.
Her works were published by newspapers like New York Times and La Repubblica and by blogs like Beautiful Decay and Lost in E Minor.
Lana is the first Romanian designer to oficially collaborate with Puma in a custom print jacket coined “T7 Etno Shake Puma by Lana” and added to her credentials the quality of being a previous member of the digital design team for Mary Katrantzou in London.
With twelve distinct collections in her portfolio which have consisted, until now, in “wearable opinions”- as she describes her clothes- Lana has won the jury’s appreciation in various design competitions: Puma Creativity Award, Pasarela/Institut Francais de la Mode contest finalist, Elle Decoration- Design of the year nominee- Lana for Photoliu, Young Creative Chevrolet Award-Romania, product design awards, etc.
Her works were published by newspapers like New York Times and La Repubblica and by blogs like Beautiful Decay and Lost in E Minor.
Beautifuldecay.com:
Lana Dumitru is a Romanian fashion designer who creates surreal futuristic clothing. the majority of her work addresses the hyper saturated digital age of information. Things get meta with garments made up of repeated images of her models wearing pieces she designed. Seen elsewhere are giant zippers that are printed and non functional. Her collections combine the stunning and the absurd as a way to revitalize. Lana's models are wearing her influences on their sleeves and helping to push the boundaries of the fashion world.
Designyoutrust.com:
Romanian Fashion designer Lana Dumitru is using weird and photorealistic prints to create her amazing collection. She creates unique surreal futuristic clothing with references to to Dali and O'Keeffe.
Artrebels.com:
Young Romanian fashion designer Lana Dumitru has been busy experimenting with camouflage, modern technology, and traditional patterns. So far this fusion of ideas is working a treat. Ideas range from a bizarre Facebook Dress, featuring her own profile, to a more wearable line called Romanian Apparel that turns traditional Romanian patterns into pixilated form.
Marieclaire.com:
However, Lana's success as an innovative designer is anything but sluggish. Even though she's still a student , she has already become internationally recognized for her collections that fuse camouflage, technology, and old-world traditions together." Planetnotion.com: Romanian designer Lana grabbed our attention earlier this year with her redesign of Puma's classic T7 jacket. Her latest collection is a real head-turner, inspired by quirky Romanian attraction The Merry Cemetery, where graves are marked with lively, radiant stones.