{"id":6907,"date":"2026-09-29T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2026\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T10:36:19","slug":"lika-kukutchanashvili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tbilisibiennale.com\/2026\/6907\/lika-kukutchanashvili\/","title":{"rendered":"Lika Kukutchanashvili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lika Kukutchanashvili<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fashion Designer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lika Kukutchanashvili is a Georgian fashion designer. She completed a ten-year program in the Painting Group at Tbilisi Art College, where she developed her foundation in painting and visual arts. She later earned a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Fashion Design with a minor in Sociology from Ilia State University and a Master&#8217;s degree in Fashion Design from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.<\/p>\n<p>Her professional experience includes working as a fashion designer at NICOLO since 2025 and as a fashion design intern (RTW) at MACH&amp;MACH in 2024. Her practice combines fashion design with artistic experimentation, exploring the relationship between form, material and visual expression. Her areas of expertise include fashion illustration, garment construction, technical drawing, AI-based digital design, knitting and experimental textile techniques such as shibori, batik, print and eco print.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025 she took part in the exhibition Imprint: From Nature to Digital Reality and worked as a masterclass tutor in the project Empowering Refugees through Art and Design (UNHCR and Tbilisi State Academy of Arts), teaching Julian Roberts&#8217; Subtraction Pattern Cutting method. In 2024 she participated in the exhibition XIII. 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