Birth Name: Demna Gvasalia
Place of Birth: Sokhumi, Georgian Socialist Republic, USSR
Date of Birth: 25 March, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Georgian
*mother – Russian, some French, Jewish, and Alabanian
Demna Gvasalia (დემნა გვასალია) is a Georgian fashion designer. He is the creative director of Balenciaga and the co-founder of the brand Vetements, with his brother Guram Gvasalia.
He was born in Sokhumi, Abkhazia, to a Georgian father, Guram, and a Russian mother, Elvira. He has stated:
[My mother is] part Russian and part many other things, like French, Jewish, Albanian. But she’s mostly Russian and my dad is Georgian.
His family left for Tbilisi during the war between Abkhazia and Georgia, and later lived in Ukraine; they moved to Düsseldorf, Germany in 2001. He studied fashion design in Antwerp, Belgium. Demna is married to French musician Loïk Gomez. He speaks Russian, Georgian, English, French, German, Italian, and Flemish.
Sources: https://www.newyorker.com
https://system-magazine.com
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