Anna Neklesa

I am an Haute Couture Alchemist who pushes the frontiers of the human–material relationship to the unseen level.

I grow up in Siberia in the family of entrepreneurs, studied at Novosibirsk Academy of Architecture and Art, graduated in 2011 and for four years owned an interior design practice in St Petersburg.

I assume my great interest in material culture and textiles has always been in my blood. My grandmother was a material science lecturer in the college, where I spent the childhood observing models and samples.

I would like to start an alternative textile industry built on craft, physical science and computational design by emerging professionals from many disciplines in order to create material culture of tomorrow. I believe developing our material frontiers by means of molecular tailoring allows us to design a material property and go beyond 3D shapes to 4D materials.