Fashion career profile
Roksanda Ilincic
Roksanda Ilinčić is a Serbian-born London fashion designer and the founder and creative director of the ROKSANDA label, launched in 2005. She studied architecture and applied arts at the University of Belgrade before completing an MA in womenswear at Central Saint Martins; the Victoria and Albert Museum connects that architectural training to the sculptural construction and shape-led character of her garments. The label’s official description identifies saturated colour, sculptural silhouettes, distinctive cuts and fabric innovation as recurring design codes. Her work has appeared at London Fashion Week since the label’s launch, received British Fashion Council New Generation and Fashion Forward support, and featured in the V&A’s Fashion in Motion programme. The record distinguishes Ilinčić’s personal design career from the label’s corporate ownership and retail activity. Its focus is the designer’s documented education, creative remit and sustained contribution to London womenswear rather than reducing her work to red-carpet dressing.
- Role
- Founder & Creative Director, Roksanda
- Nationality
- Serbian-British
- Age
- 49
- ROKSANDA: Label launched in 2005The official brand history dates the label's inception to 2005. · ROKSANDA
- Education: Architecture and applied arts; MA womenswearIlinčić studied architecture and applied arts in Belgrade before completing an MA in womenswear at Central Saint Martins. · Victoria and Albert Museum
- Museum presentation: Fashion in Motion, 2008The V&A invited Ilinčić to present key pieces from her collections in its Fashion in Motion series. · Victoria and Albert Museum
- Art collaboration: Collection with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2013The Design Museum records the capsule collaboration inspired by the artists. · Design Museum
- British Fashion Council: Fashion Forward and New Generation supportThe V&A records two Fashion Forward awards and New Generation support. · Victoria and Albert Museum
- 2005 — Launches ROKSANDA labelThe label is founded in London by Roksanda Ilinčić.
- 2008 — Presents Fashion in Motion at the V&AThe museum presents five vignettes drawing on pieces from her previous three collections.
- 2013 — Creates Albers-inspired capsule collectionThe Design Museum records a capsule collection developed with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.