Nikola Eftimov

In October 2009 he started to teach at the Faculty for Art and Design, European University Skopje. He has a wide range of professional interests (fashion as art, fashion as communication, theory, and history of costume and fashion, experimental fashion techniques, men's wear, theory of collection, haute couture, photography) and his work is focused on research of gender, cultural and social issues of the costume and fashion. From 1994 to 1997 he participates in group exhibitions of graphic art and drawing (1997, Macedonian Drawing ’96 – Award from the National and University Library Skopje). The period between 1992 and 2010 is marked with work in the fields of fashion and costume design. In 2005, he won “The Coca-Cola light fashion design award” that enabled him presentation of the winning design in Florence and the position of professor at Accademia Italiana Bangkok (2005–2006). Sani (Macedonian fashion journalist) wearing Eftimov's outfits. Photos by Ivan Blazev, 2003 Photos from the project “Entangled Fragments: ABC of Curatorial Black”, Nikola Eftimov, 2007

• Name — Nikola Eftimov • Born — 6 October 1968 • Birthplace — Skopje, Yugoslavia (now North Macedonia) • Field — Fashion design and visual art • Training — Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy • Illustration — Photo from the cycle “Kitchen couture”, corsets executed in 2000, Nikola Eftimov • Illustration — Lezzet (the male underwear collection, 2003), photo Ilhan Osmani