Working on the intersection between fashion design and visual art, Danish fashion designer Nikoline Liv Andersen creates elaborate garments that are not meant to be worn. Instead, they are almost a stage for experimentation and for telling stories about human nature and our way of life. A graduate of The Danish Design School (2006), Liv Andersen who worked at the studio of John Galliano and Christian Dior in the context of a student internship, creates singular and meticulously crafted pieces of clothing that are also intricate sculptural works of art. The interplay between what is natural and what is artificial is a big part of her work, since she loves experimenting with materials and fabrics, always searching for new ways to transform artificial materials such as straws and nails into something that looks organic. A characteristic example of her work is her collection of Rococo-inspired wigs decorated with monkeys from her previous project, ''The Dance of the Deaf and Dumb Eye'' (2011), which will be presented during this year’s Ventura Lambrate as part of the MINDCRAFT14exhibition of Danish design in Milan. On this occasion, Nikoline Liv Andersen gave us an interview here atYatzer and talks about her hybrid artistic identity, the difference between art and design and what inspires her.
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