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Endless motivation
Especially the doors. Our old doors, their construction, their architectural elements always attracted me. I loved being photographed near old doors. I was deeply impressed, and this is where the idea for the Arka collection was born: creating clothing from architectural forms. The arches made of strong stone, their hardness, the light streaming from vaulted windows, translucent curtains—all of this became my source of inspiration.
Yerevan for me is a city of music. I feel very connected to Yerevan, though it’s hard to explain why in words. Love is inexplicable. I adore the lively, bustling Saryan Street with its flow of people, the music from its many cafés, the originality of the buildings, and the people walking along the street. As strange as it may seem, they are very similar to the city’s architecture.
Mind & soul
During the two years I worked on this collection, I met many interesting people, and this played an exceptional role. True Yerevan residents are very similar to the city’s old, original buildings. They have restraint, strength, romance, kindness, and a richness of soul. Being surrounded by such people during the creation of the collection is what I consider my greatest accomplishment of those years. Without them, I wouldn’t have dared to take on such a challenging project.
The collection is complete; whether it will have a life of its own is unknown, but the human relationships born along the way will continue to live in my life.”
In 2009 she won the “Russian Silhouette” young designers’ competition in Yerevan and represented Armenia (Artsakh) in the Moscow finals with her collection “Goryanka”.
Studied at the Atexfashion Center in Yerevan, specializing as a stylist.
In 2012 she took part in Yerevan Fashion Week. She was inspired by the music of the ethno-jazz ensemble MVF Band led by Mikael Voskanyan, which led her to depict the musical instrument tar and the mulberry tree in some of the garments.
On May 8, 2012, as part of the events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Shushi, Ovsanna Petrosyan presented a fashion show commissioned by Narine Agabalyan, then Minister of Culture of the Artsakh Republic. The collection interpreted traditional Artsakh national dress (taraz) in a modern way.
In 2015 she worked as stylist for the Artsakh team at “Golosyashchiy Kivin” in Sochi.
In 2017 Ovsanna’s work was selected by Istituto di Moda Burgo for the fashion show “FASHION SHOW – PrUt – Couture S/S 2018”, which took place on July 29, 2017, in Milan, Italy.
That same year she took part in the “Russian Silhouette” project with her collection “Arka”.
“In 2015 I was vacationing in Saint Petersburg, a city that felt very special to me. I fell in love with this city—its architecture, its atmosphere. After returning to Yerevan, I began to look at my own beloved city with new eyes. I noticed that the architecture of Yerevan’s best buildings and structures had significant differences. The colors, columns, arches, windows, doors, and the patterns of wrought-iron grilles awakened new feelings in me, and I began to treat them with particular warmth.
Yerevan for me is a city of music. I feel very connected to Yerevan, though it’s hard to explain why in words. Love is inexplicable. I adore the lively, bustling Saryan Street with its flow of people, the music from its many cafés, the originality of the buildings, and the people walking along the street. As strange as it may seem, they are very similar to the city’s architecture.
During the two years I worked on this collection, I met many interesting people, and this played an exceptional role. True Yerevan residents are very similar to the city’s old, original buildings. They have restraint, strength, romance, kindness, and a richness of soul. Being surrounded by such people during the creation of the collection is what I consider my greatest accomplishment of those years. Without them, I wouldn’t have dared to take on such a challenging project.
The collection is complete; whether it will have a life of its own is unknown, but the human relationships born along the way will continue to live in my life.”
2019–2021
Worked as a costume designer on a documentary film about Tatul Krpeyan, a National Hero of Armenia.
2022
Became the costume designer for the short film “250 km”, directed by young filmmaker Asmik Movsisyan, a VGIK graduate (Moscow, Russia).
She also worked as costume designer on the feature film “My Cross” directed by Shavarsh Vardanyan. In this film, through clothing, she conveyed the hidden emotions of the main character Sona—feelings the heroine would not want to share with anyone. Costumes became a subtle language of her inner world.
In the same year, she was the costume designer for a documentary film about the National Hero of Armenia, Tatul Krpeyan.
From 2019 to 2021 she created costumes for several music videos, including:
Rob Misht – “Misht”
FairWind – “Mnatsatsy”
MVF Band – “The Dance of Insomnia”
