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“As young and silly as I was, I said that I would, although I didn’t know an- ything about fashion, nor do I follow the trends today. The collection was called “Don’t Look Like Others”and people liked it. However, when journalists asked me to advise Yugoslav women for the upcom- ing Spring/Summer season, I said that, to me, everyone should wear what they
We even joined some pieces with a gun! Those with silicone glue. Without many words, we allowed the sail to lead us. In order to ensure the models were authentic, we decided to leave on the dresses rust, salt, storms, breezes and disloyalty,”saysTonka. When they asked her to sell two dress- es, she just smiled and said there was no way, because she couldn’t break the story
want, and that was the end of my fashion advice. And then the war came and there was no more fashion.” Many years later,
up into pieces. She ex- plained to the would- be buyer that those dresses cannot exist without one another and that only togeth- er can they recount all tempests and ad- ventures. Elegant, el- oquent, measured and quiet, Tonka’s appear- ance doesn’t leave the
They say a day at sea is like three on land Kažu da je dan na moru kao tri na kopnu
fashion again provoked her. She wore one of the dresses from this collec- tion at the fashion show in Split. We asked her how it felt to wear all the memories hidden in the sail and how she now sees the sea in those dresses? “The fact that I didn’t pick up the material in a shop and then tailor these dresses, or that I didn’t borrow a sail from somebody else, but rather that it is mine, the one I looked to, which I directed, low- ered, raised, removed, stitched, provides an authenticity and in the sense of this exhibition. The space of this gallery is in a basement, so my rst association was the hull of the boat. My memories don’t sti e me, don’t torment me, be- cause everything has fallen away from them which can drown, disappoint, sad- den, and all that remains is light, good- ness and the future, during which I want these dresses to sail around the world once more.”
Mnogo godina kasnije moda ju je ponovo isprovocirala. Jednu od haljina iz ove kolekcije nosila je na modnoj reviji u Splitu. Pitali smo je kakav je osećaj obući sva sećanja koja se kriju u jedru, kako sada vidi more u tim haljinama. – Činjenica da nisam uzela ma- terijal u dućanu, pa sašila ove halji- ne, ili da nisam posudila od neko- ga njegovo jedro, nego da je ono moje, ono u koje sam gledala, ko- je sam usmeravala, kratila, dizala, skidala, šila, daje na autentičnosti i na smislu ove izložbe. Prostor ove galerije je u podrumu, pa mi je pr- va asocijacija bilo potpalublje. Me- ne sećanja ne guše, ne muče, jer je s njih otpalo sve ono što vas može utopiti, razočarati, rastužiti, a ostali su svetlost, dobrota i budućnost, u kojoj želim da ove haljine još jed- nom jedre širom sveta.
Prostor ove galerije je u podrumu, pa joj je prva asocijacija bilo potpalublje The space of this gallery is in a basement, so her first association was the hull of the boat
impression that she’s an adventurer. She says that she’s always tried to be a lady in all life situations, which in no way im- plies that she didn’t manage to deal with the tribulations of her exciting voyages. “I didn’t have enough adrenaline, so I came up with my own authentic hormone, surdrenaline. A combination of surreal- ism in art and adrenaline in me. Well, it’s that dose of my surdrenaline that I seek in everything I do. She had her rst experiment with fash- ion 29 years ago, and it was in Belgrade. Out of pure boredom, she sketched the design of a dress. It was seen by Dragol- jub Golubović Pižon, a famous journalist and man of style. He asked her if she’d like to arrange a fashion show for lady diplo- mats and ambassadors of the former state.
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