Who is Uta Bekaia?

I interviewed this designer from Russia for Anaolie Magazine!

Who is Uta Bekaia?

By Christopher Uvenio

I am sure everyone never heard of him name just yet. But you will soon hear his name on the New York Fashion Week very shortly…..An Avant-garde designer.

A Twist of Glamour. Daring. Flamboyant. Theatrical Twist of Galliano, Yamamoto, Viktor & Rolf and a McQueen, there is UTA BEKAIA.

The designer was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia. After graduating from Small Academy of Arts, he presented his very first collection at AMA known as Tbilisi Avant-Garde Fashion Festival near St. Petersburg in Russia. 

Uta Tbilisi Collections were showed in the same year in Moscow and Kiev Fashion week. In 1998, Uta moved to New York, the Fashion Capitol of the World, where he had worked on numerous film and theater projects as costume designer and art director.

In 2009, the designer showed his very first solo fashion show/installation at Ideal Glass New York.

In 2010, Tbilisi started a collection of an Art Wear Line known as “Saint Hollywood” for Ideal Glass. The talented Tbilisi also presented his very own brand at Tbilisi Fashion Week in his home state of Georgia along with FAT – (Toronto fashion and arts festival in Canada) and the Ideal Glass in New York.

In 2011 Multimedia performance of “Pheromone” at the premiere Laguanacazul Art Gallery, in Buenos Aires, Argentina . The very same year he created Art Duo “Uta Levan” together with Levan Mindiashvili involving the synthesis of the Art and Fashion, presented its first collection at the annual Tbilisi Fashion Week.

In 2012 Tbilisi joined the production of creating “Days of A Dandy” – (multimedia fashion project for Ideal Glass, New York) multimedia installation TRANSpolation at FAT - Toronto fashion and arts festival;

Currently at the moment, Uta is working on multimedia show “Maria & the Oceans”, with Tusia Beridze and it will be presented worldwide. Uta’s visions are creative and always looking to find fresh ways to express himself; he wants to create a world by art wear installation, the visual connection, a link between most artificial and most natural; to absorb and express relationship of human being and nature, to explore and visualize most intimate parts of our existence.