DATUNA
About
Datuna Sulikashvili debuted in 2005 as a fashion designer with his first collection while being a student at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. It was the beginning of his successful career full of applauded collections and fashion shows by various buyers and critics from different parts of the world. Datuna Sulikashvili has participated in various fashion events, such as Benext Fashion Design Contest, Tbilisi Fashion Week, Georgia Fashion Week, Mercedes-Benz fashion Days, Almaty Fashion week, Baku Fashion Week, Astana Fashion Week, Tallinn Fashion Week, Madrid Fashion Week where his collections are highly appreciated by famous critics. This is how Godfrey Deeny describes one of his shows: “Georgia’s best staged show was very much by Datuna Sulikashvili, who presented his gothic screen goddess show in a great Constructivist style theater, where models appeared out of the floors on hydraulic platforms and staged precariously at a 45 degree angle as an Oscar winning style star emoted in a diaphanous white dress in a surreal shower made of pages from a novel. Sulikashvili’s strict black pants suits with jade finishes and layered chiffon dresses in burnt orange were also the weekend’s best-cut ideas”. His famous customers include politicians, actresses and singers like Lady Gaga, Sharon Stone and others. It is worth mentioning that the First Lady of Georgia chose Datuna to design her inaugural outfit as well. His current and future clients shop Datuna’s collections In Tbilisi, Moscow, Minsk, Paris, Almaty, Astana, Sochi, Kiev.
Datuna Sulikashvili is the designer who is constantly involved in different social issues. In 2019, the designer created a special capsule collection for the editorial against sexual harassment featured in Amarta international edition. Thematic words and terms dedicated to the sexual harassment were printed on the unique pieces of the collection worn by Belgian model Leila Nda.
