Biography

Adrian Oianu was born in Con­stanta, Romania.

In 1993 he gives up Law School, for enter­ing the Fash­ion Business.

1994 — Goes to Euro­pean Insti­tute of Design Milano.

1996 — Goes to Turkey as a designer and artis­tic direc­tor at “Tween&Damat”

1997 — Becomes a stu­dent at Otis Col­lege of Art and Design Los Angeles

1999 — Becomes associate-designer at Richard Tyler, design­ing the women pants division

2000 — Enters multi-brand com­pany, Liz Clai­borne cre­at­ing for DKNY Jeans

2001 — Launches on the Amer­i­can fash­ion mar­ket the con­tem­po­rary fash­ion label Adrian Oianu

2002 — Designs at Liz Clai­borne — the Laun­dry — con­tem­po­rary fash­ion for women

2004 — goes to Roma­nia, launch­ing on the Euro­pean fash­ion mar­ket a new brand — Foto­sin­tesi Clorofilliana

2006 — opens his per­sonal work­shop in Roma­nia and launches a new fash­ion label on the mar­ket — Adrian Oianu in the same time with his first col­lec­tion — “I live again” in June.

• Octo­ber — brings for the first time in Roma­nia the con­cept of “fash­ion films” pro­jected through 3 short movies — “Con­tem­po­rary Moods”, a fusion between video-art and fash­ion design.
• Novem­ber — “The 5’th” Col­lec­tion - the sec­ond col­lec­tion after his return to Roma­nia, but the 5^th one in his career

2007 — Launches 4 col­lec­tions - Cinecitta (March),  Juveni­fi­ca­tion (June),    The Beat (Octo­ber),   Lim­ited Edi­tion I(Decem­ber)

• Octo­ber — Spe­cial Project for The Beat Col­lec­tion — Adrian Oianu launches the vir­tual print on his own dresses dur­ing The Music Fash­ion Show
• Decem­ber — Vol­un­teers to par­tic­i­pate in the Christ­mas Fash­ion Show, where he donates a real Roman­ian Tra­di­tional Christ­mas Tree  in ben­e­fit for “Save the Chil­dren” Organization.
• Orga­nizes the I’st Edi­tion of Spe­cial Olympics Event

2008 — in April he opens a new pri­vate show­room in Bucharest

• launches 4 major col­lec­tions : No 10 (June), Resort Col­lec­tion (August), No 11 — the Teacher(Octo­ber) and Lim­ited Edi­tion II (Decem­ber)
• the col­lec­tions are shown in 6 cities — Bucharest, Con­stanta, Brasov, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Sibiu and Timisoara dur­ing over 15 events
• May — orga­nizes “Stars Wheel­chair Com­pe­ti­tion” in ben­e­fit for Moti­va­tion Foundation
• Decem­ber — II’nd edi­tion of Spe­cial Olympics event

2009

• launches 2 major col­lec­tions : “Jocul Ielelor” dur­ing Pasarela Bucharest/Paris Fes­ti­val (May) and 153 DTMJ Col­lec­tion (Decem­ber)
• shows his work in 5 cities in Roma­nia dur­ing over 15 events
• July — openes a new pri­vate show­room in Cotroceni Palace Area
• orga­nizes 3 pri­vate Fash­ion Par­ties in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Gaia Bou­tique Club in Bucharest : After-Party Pasarela Fes­ti­val, Face­book Fan Party I’st Edi­tion, 3D Party
• shows for the first time 3D Prints on silk dur­ing 153 DTMJ Col­lec­tion Fash­ion Show, which could be seen with spe­cial 3D Glasses, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Aus­trian artist Thomas Anton Binder

2010

• In Feb­ru­ary, launches new web­site, www.adrianoianu.com, in part­ner­ship with Aus­trian com­pany Binder­trit­ten­wein.
• In Feb­ru­ary launches Fash­ion Design Courses (Part­ners : Bucharest HUBB and Brother Roma­nia)
• Designer of the Year 2009 — www.fashionandbeauty.ro
• June 2010 — Not Cool Col­lec­tion is launched
• Sep­tem­ber 2010 — Tac­tile Project
• Decem­ber 2010 — Sto­ries about Ileana C Col­lec­tion is launched

2011

• NEW Fash­ion Design Courses — “Style of Fash­ion Abroad”