Demna Gvasalia

Demna Gvasalia (b. 1981, Sukhumi, Georgia) is a Georgian fashion designer who became one of the most influential figures in contemporary fashion. After fleeing Georgia during the civil conflict of the 1990s, he studied fashion design in Antwerp and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, which shaped the strong conceptual basis of his work.

He co-founded the collective Vetements in 2014 with his brother Guram, producing fashion that combined irony, dystopian aesthetics, and references to streetwear, workwear, and post-Soviet imagery in ways that proved enormously influential.