{"id":2096,"date":"2025-12-10T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:04:26","slug":"mandali-mendrilla-a-designer-with-a-strong-authorial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/fashion\/mandali-mendrilla-a-designer-with-a-strong-authorial-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandali Mendrilla \u2014 a designer with a strong authorial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"max-width:600px\">Maja Mendrila, today known as Mandali Mendrilla, has grown into one of the most recognizable designers of Croatian avant-garde fashion, and her collaboration with Katja Restovi\u0107 and Fashion News marked the beginning of her career. Mendrilla\u2019s aesthetics \u2014 bold, experimental, and often sculptural \u2014 stood out in her early works as an expression of an authentic authorial signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"max-width:600px\">Mandali\/Maja Mendrila is today an internationally active artist whose work transcends the boundaries of fashion. She is known for projects inspired by ancient cultures, especially India, and for creating unique sculptural forms in textiles. Her collections have been exhibited in Europe, the USA, and Asia, including major museums and international festivals, where she particularly stood out with interactive art installations such as the Wish Tree Dress and Mandala of Desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"max-width:600px\">In her artistic philosophy, she emphasizes creation in virtue \u2014 seeking beauty through high ethical principles, thoughtful aesthetics, professionalism, and the desire for her art to be a source of joy for others. Mendrilla highlights that her works arise from an energy of abundance and gratitude, and customers often keep her unique dresses for decades, as personal and artistic treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"max-width:600px\">Katja Restovi\u0107 expresses pride in her beginnings precisely at Fashion News, as well as in the fact that Mendrilla continues to push the boundaries of fashion just as boldly as before. Mendrilla\u2019s latest project \u2014 an interactive fashion game \u2014 confirms her continuous artistic development and her ability to create contemporary, innovative forms that inspire a new generation of designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" data-id=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_01.jpeg 183w, https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_01-150x225.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"376\" height=\"134\" data-id=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_03.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_03.jpeg 376w, https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_03-300x107.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_03-150x53.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-id=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_04.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_04.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mandali_04-150x84.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" data-id=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mandali_mendrilla.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mandali_mendrilla.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mandali_mendrilla-150x200.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maja Mendrila, today known as Mandali Mendrilla, has grown into one of the most recognizable designers of Croatian avant-garde fashion, and her collaboration with Katja Restovi\u0107 and Fashion News marked the beginning of her career. Mendrilla\u2019s aesthetics \u2014 bold, experimental, and often sculptural \u2014 stood out in her early works as an expression of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,59,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-creative-team","8":"category-fashion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katjarestovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}