Fashion designer – Ivan Asen 22
Neli Miteva, designer and artistic director of the IVAN ASEN 22 Foundation After graduating in fashion design in Germany in 1999, Neli worked as a freelance designer, in the field of teaching (with experience as a professor of fashion design at AMD Akademie Mode & Design Munich), design concept consultancy, fashion journalism and costume design. She develops his own collections under the brand “nelmit”. In 2009 she founded the “IVAN ASEN 22” Foundation for the presentation and support of contemporary designers, with which she organizes thematic group and individual design exhibitions and creates large-scale conceptual projects with fashion films and publications with international resonance. She is the author of the book “IDEAS FOR WEARING – conceptual Bulgarian fashion design”. Her recent awards include the BIG SEE FASHION DESIGN AWARD 2022 for her collection “CULTURE CLASH” from the Centre for Creative Economies of Southeast European Countries in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and her participation in MQ Vienna Fashion Week 2021 as part of her artist-in-residence fellowship at Museumsquartier Vienna, Austria.
