Nina Shishkina Textiles

Employee Size

1

Organization Type

Self-Employed

Founded

2010

Nina Shishkina Textiles is a textile design studio creating woven fabrics, apparel projects, and print and illustration work. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Nina Shishkina trained in fashion textiles at London College of Fashion and later earned an MFA in textiles from Rhode Island School of Design, with a practice spanning handcraft and machine-produced fabric. Her background as chief embroiderer for Moscow couture maison Ulyana Sergeenko informs collections that explore cross-cultural references, comparative ideas of beauty, and color.

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