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Nixi Killick & Mardiana Sani

NIXI KILLICK (NXK) is an innovative and contemporary hybrid. Articulating alternative technologies with original artwork, A mix of vibrant streetwear, balanced with sculptured technology infused wearable pieces. NXK is an independent, Melbourne-based fashion label with a strong commitment to unique products, ethical production and quality. As a future-positive maverick-hybrid, NXK is establishing a global Colourtribe to connect creative communities and expand a growing global network. Accelerating innovative ideas and refining a contemporary streetwear aesthetic to propel NXK as a colourful beacon amongst the global fashion community.

Artist born Imagineer, Killick uses fashion to articulate a utopian freshness while drawing parallels between the possible and impossible. Fostering inspiration from her background growing up in the circus, performance and the arts, Killick embraces creative escapism and indulges in the bizarre. With clients like Lady Gaga, SIA, Kimbra, Hiatus Kayote, Brainfeeder and collections hitting runways around the world, NXK is set to become a powerhouse in Australian fashion.

Instagram:@nixikillick

Malaysian-born photographer, Mardiana Sani graduated from the RMIT with a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) in 2011. Sani takes primary inspiration from the emotional conscience. Her images incite viewers to feel their content, before turning their thoughts to them. She currently resides in Zurich, Switzerland.

Website: mardianasani.com/fineartphotography

Future-tive Nature collection

  • Photography: Mardinia Sani

  • Models: Sam Frew (Elite Model Management)

    Makeup: Yvonne Borland

    Hair: Melvin Royce Lane

    Future-tive Nature, by definition; Progressive magnetism between the present and radically expansive possible futures, collaborative cognition with technology to extend imagination and construct new adjacent universes of creative pastiche both practical and psychological. Leveraging technology in the cultivation of empowered articulation within creative expression

    The Future-tive Nature collection is concerned with material compilations. Looking at intimate junctions between technology and artisanal based practices to create intricately layered surfaces. The collection is an exercise in Imagineering, exploring a collaboration between man and machine. Recontextualizing materials and machinery to consider the articulation of technology in fashion, using alternate manufacturing trajectories to connect ideas to a sense to disruptive wonder.

    Fashion as a language for futurist discussions, to engage and challenge ideas around potential fabrications and their possible future scenarios. Exploring an open dialogue for distilling visions of potential in the unfamiliar. Methodologies focus on the material dexterity of alternate possibles, overlapping and intersecting intended material uses. The collection integrates technologies like laser cutting, vacuum forming and 3d printing, networking low-tech and hi-tech experiments into layered body interfaces. Coexisting materials such as plastics, glass and lighting systems outside their established hierarchies.

    The Future-tive nature collection exists as a suite of superlative structures, exploring three dimensional visual alternatives. The collection references the relational properties between skin, muscle and bone as a metaphor for the interactions and the different properties between the garment layers. Represented through three radial mandala designs this juxtaposition creates a textural conversation reminiscent of natural intricacies. Materials created through the integration of latex infused fabric, digital prints, electroluminescent wires and laser cut leather leverage technology to expand on the hand. Examining the dynamics of textural depth and body perimeter the collection holds an ethos of techno-optimism and hybrid practice.

    The Future-tive Nature collection is considering positive deviations at the juncture of calculated technology and artisanal imagination, leaving the future as the only certainty.

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