Ass. Prof. Dr.sc Emilija Manasieva
Faculty of Design and Multimedia
Short narrative bio | Slavkova ends the first cycle of studies in 2009 at “Academia Italiana” in Skopje, majoring in Fashion Design. The second cycle of studies ends in 2021 at the University “Goce Delchev” in Shtip at the Faculty of Technology. In the same year, she completed specialist studies in the field of Fashion Design at AUE – FON in Skopje.
From 2020 to 2021, she works as a teacher at “Dimitar Miraschiev” Secondary School. From 2021, she works as an Assistant professor at the Faculty of Design and Multimedia at AUE – FON. In the course of the teaching-educational activity, she works on the realization of school and student projects, extracurricular workshops and trainings in cooperation with several organizations such as NECI NMK, SEGA Coalition of Youth Organizations, CEED Hub Skopje, Moden Weekend Skopje, Textile Trade Association – Textile Cluster.
As a designer, she has been working for 15 years building her own fashion expression under the name “Duma” and has collaborated with other fashion houses and brands, including “Bargala” a domestic footwear brand, “Linea” a domestic brand that creates its own fashion lines for the domestic and foreign market. and “Arthropoda” fashion brand based in Amsterdam.
In the last 5 years she has been improving her digital design skills through independent work, courses and collaborations. In the meantime, she has acquired certificates from the prestigious The Digital Fashion Group Academy in collaboration with Parsons School of Design, a certificate from Browzwer’s online academy. She is currently an external designer-collaborator in the incubator program of Style3d software.
Slavkova has taken part in various guest lectures, conferences and workshops. In 2024, she gave a guest lecture at Middlesex University Dubai on the topic of “Digital Fashion”. In 2023 and 2022, she takes an active part in the international online conference “The Digital Multilogue”, where she exchanges experiences with colleagues around the world during interactive workshops. In 2022, there is a guest participation in an online event in the digital space “Metaverse” called “Friends & Visionaries Shape the Metaverse”. The event takes place within the New York Fashion Week. |
Course you have been teaching and courses you are teaching currently
| • Basics of fashion design • Fashion design 1 • Fashion design 2 • Fashion design 3 • Fashion design 4 • Fashion collection • Draping and moulage techniques • Textiles and textile products • Cutting and sewing techniques 1 • Cutting and sewing techniques 2 • History and theory of costume and fashion • Advanced Level 1 Fashion Design • Advanced Level 2 Fashion Design • Costume design • Fashion accessories |
Subjects and research fields of BA, MA, or PhD thesis you’ve supervised and are interested in supervising
| Topics defined in areas of fashion design: collection design, collection making, history of clothing, textile technology, costume design, fashion accessories, sustainable fashion. |
Research interests (and on-going research, if you are conducting one)
| Fields of interest in my research and projects: The chronological development of clothing styles, political, social and religious influences on clothing, emphasizing the diversity of global fashion traditions versus a Eurocentric perspective in the study of fashion history, cultural democratization through digitalization of fashion design. |
List of published articles (academic journals), texts (in edited books) and books, exhibitions and audiovisual works
| 2024 – Group exhibition “Professors and students” – Youth Cultural Center 2023 – Digital fashion show “Smiljana” – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2023 – Group exhibition “Professors and students” – Youth Cultural Center 2021 – Multicultural association “Nacu Hagi” (Mountain civilization – Tradition, costumes, folklore on the mountain) – Romania 2021 – International project for the preservation of local craft traditions at the international level and integration into new technologies, recycling processes and application in modern and functional design – Gallery “Nikola Martinoski” – Kruševo 2019 – Final group exhibition of “Goce Delchev University” – Shtip 2018 – Final group exhibition of “Goce Delchev University” – Shtip 2013 – Solo exhibition of fashion collection “Tunnel to the stars” – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2012 – Independent fashion show “Peony Pavilion” – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2011 – Independent fashion show “Dandification” – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2011 – Independent fashion show “The beginning of Modern- Day Gomorrah” sponsored by Bimilk – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2011 – Participation in the group show “Project Fashion Business – Sponsored by Pelisterka” – Fashion Weekend Skopje 2010 – Independent collection “Copasetic for cake eaters” 2009 – Participation in the final show of the Accademia Italiana – Saschall Theatre, Florence 2009 – Participation in the final show of the Italian Academy – Skopje 2008 – Participation in the final show of the Accademia Italiana – Saschall Theatre, Florence 2008 – Participation in the final fashion show of the Italian Academy – Skopje 2007 – Participation in the final fashion show of the Italian Academy – Skopje
Researches: Slavkova, Emilija and Risteski, Sanja and Srebrenkoska, Vineta (2020) The designing of composite laminates for aplication in autompotive industies. Contemporary trends and innovations in the textile industry CT&ITI 2020. ISSN 677(082) / 687.1(082) |