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Jun 28, 1974 Serbia Died on 05 Apr 2008 (aged 33)
Serbian fashion designer
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About Boris Nikoli
- Boris Nikolic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ???????; 1974-2008) was a Serbian fashion designer who has become somewhat of an icon since his death in 2008.
- In his short ten year career, he became a respected and award winning designer within Serbia.
- He was known for combining contrasting elements and using striped motifs, as well as for employing unusual titles for his collections.In 1998, Nikolic began working as a fashion designer in Belgrade, Serbia.
- He and fellow designer Ana Ljubinkovic opened the shop "Peekaboo" together in 2006.
- Nikolic also worked as a stylist at the B92 Television network.
- In 1998, 1999 and 2001, Nikolic was a finalist at the Smirnoff Fashion Awards.
- He also won the BazArt Prize three times at Belgrade Fashion Week, where he presented his clothing line in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
- His collections often had unexpected names such as "Consequences of Falling" or "Breakfast on the Grass". Soon after his death, Belgrade Fashion Week gave him a posthumous award for contributing to the development of fashion as an art.
- The fashion show also named one of their competition awards after him.
- Sponsored by B92, the prize includes $2,000 Euros to be used towards the winner's next collection.
- In 2006, Nikolic was included in a group retrospective at the 40th edition of the festival which is held twice a year.
- In 2018, to commemorate the ten years since his passing, Belgrade Fashion Week held a special show in his honour where past winners of his namesake award presented their clothing lines.Nikolic studied at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade.
