Jovana ILIC

Jovana ILIC

Image, Media, Digital DirectorParis, France
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Jovana ILIC

Jovana ILIC

Image, Media, Digital DirectorParis, France
About me
Since 1995, Jovana Ilic, Communication Specialist and Creative Director, dedicated her unique artistic vision and her personality to the worlds of fashion, luxury, entertainment and art. During 10 years in LVMH, Jovana Ilic was committed and fully contributed to the re-vamping of the Givenchy brand by shouldering Riccardo Tisci on his mission, holding the position of the worldwide Visual, Media and Digital Director. She decided to take a new leap, merging her knowledge, creativity, connections, instinct and energy and forging it into her new personal mind child JI.STUDIO Renown for her outstanding capacity to manage ambiguity, blend intuition and rationality, Jovana Ilic creates advantageous out-of-standard visions of brand development. Her creative genius, her premonitory senses, both in field of creation and trend motion, made her name in the world of fashion and set standards in team building. Her intuitive wisdom, relentless innovative spirit, thirst for knowledge, artistic mind and attention to detail stamped many epic campaigns, photo shoots, editorials… Her capability to innovate, motivate and collaborate with a variety of different professional profiles, brought her to connect creativity with business, interacting lively with fine-arts, visual artists, musicians and photographers on wide range of projects far beyond the confines of fashion industry. Her creative self is moved by surprise and curiosity, relied on intuition and adventured into unknown. She believes in human trust, real and long last goals and mutual collaboration interest. An all-through creative, among other strong assets, Jovana Ilic holds a toolbox of know-how in fashion, excels in fine tuning and perfection, and is praised for her creative result oriented reputation worldwide. Jovana Ilic initially started her carrier in 1995 by organizing « Fashion for peace » humanitarian show for UNICEF with participation of Yohji Yamamoto, Thierry Mugler, Paco Rabanne and many other designers. She worked on various music and art projects, as well as for Lancôme, Helena Rubenstein (L’Oreal), Morgan, Etam, Procter & Gamble etc. Since her early childhood she was a real glob trotter, with international education (Switzerland, Yugoslavia, France and USA). She obtained an MA degree at IFM – L’Institut Francais de la Mode in Paris, France. Throughout her time within Givenchy, she was responsible for establishing the global communication strategy and budgets for Givenchy and licensed partners worldwide, including media buying, managing creative talent, castings, shootings, and all image-led creative including print advertising, catalogues, press kits, shows and event invitations, lei sees, NY cards, in – store advertisings and outdoor advertising, digital, social media, video, revising the graphic charts (packaging/ stationary). She also managed the new website creation and content, developed the m-commerce APP with Net-a-porter, made brand books, developed various art collaboration and cobranding’s etc. She set and maintained brand standards and ensured consistency in how the Givenchy story is told, reinforcing its modern luxury positioning both in visual imagery and voice across all touching points accordingly to Riccardo Tisci’s world.
Projects
  • CONFINMENT DIGITAL DRAWINGS
    CONFINMENT DIGITAL DRAWINGSOne confinement day one digital drawing by me. Inspired by minerals from a museum in Paris and organic forms
  • CONFINEMENT ART
    CONFINEMENT ARTOne day one digital drawing by me during the confinement. This project is dedicated to my childhood friend stolen by Covid-19. It's homage to his love for art, history and sculptures but also to longevity, notion of time, decadence and rebirth.
  • Favorite women's campaigns @ Givenchy
    Favorite women's campaigns @ GivenchyThis just a small recap of my favorite campaigns , I worked on as Visual, Media,Digital director in Givenchy. This visuals are on line with the creative world of Riccardo Tisci and shot by prominent photographers as Mert&Marcus, Inez&Vinoodh ect. Styled by Carine Roitfeld, Katy England, Panos Yiapanis. Layouts MM.
  • ETAM JEANS
    ETAM JEANS
  • Make up
    Make up
  • Saskia for Givenchy
    Saskia for Givenchy
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Work history
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    FounderJI.STU
    Paris, FranceFull Time
    JI.STUDIO is a visionary custom made-to measure creative atelier, interconnecting highly skilled craftsman and creative minds from the image world, weaving fashion with contemporary art, video production and photography with savoir faire and aesthetics -with a refined touch and a sharp eye. Our domain of expertise is linked to Art Direction, Image treatments, video, communication strategies for fashion, luxury goods, music and art.
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    Image and Event DirectorEtam
     - Paris, FranceFull Time
    2016 - May to December ETAM, Paris. Image & Event Director Underwear & Clothing, ETAM group since 1916. Present in 52 Countries with 3854 stores. (745 stores in France) • Developing the Image and PR strategy. Ensure homogeneity of the image and increase the visibility of the brand world wide excluding China. • Art Directing and managing the creation of all communicational supports in line with the marketing and product strategy (advertising / shop window/ in store visuals, 100 year Manifest, press kits, display, packaging, social media content and strategy etc.) • Managing the in-house PR team and international Press offices. • Managing the agency and in-house creative team for store animations (shop windows, POP’s, promotions, Xmas etc.) • Managing the communication strategy, look and feel, as well as all other communication tools around the Live show event -“100 years of Etam” • Managing various PR events for opinion leaders, press & bloggers. Managing collaboration on Art projects.
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Skills
  • Fashion
  • Advertising
  • Visual Arts
  • Branding
  • Art Direction
  • Strategy
  • Marketing Branding
  • Media Communication
  • Marketing Communications Strategy
  • Luxury Brands
  • Photgrapghy
  • Marketing Advertising Campaigns
  • Budget Timeframe Management
  • Art Buying/production
  • Team Management and Leadership
Education
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    FashionIFM
     - Paris, France
    MA in fashion tehnologue