Suva

Suva explores the beauty of the world through photography on fashion. Created in New York City by Natalya Bagrova and Timothy Showalter, Suva's unique clothing line showcases their collection of photographs taken while traveling throughout the world. From a hidden tavern in Venice, to the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to a vintage car on Route 66, Suva's vision reflects the stories inherent in the world around us as well as a personal vision. Launched in August 2001 at the WWD Magic Show in Las Vegas, Suva introduced four styles featured with fourteen carefully selected full-panel photographs, accompanied by a journal entry about the image. By February 2002, Suva began distributing throughout the US, in addition to England, Italy and Canada. Suva has grown from a line of contemporary t-shirts into a wide-ranging line that includes shirts, dresses, skirts and jackets. Bagrova was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia and immigrated to US with her family as a teenager in the 1991. Given an opportunity to live and study in New York, Bagrova used this chance to pursue her passion for art at Parsons School of Design, where she met Showalter. After graduating in 2000 she worked for some of the leading design and multimedia companies in New York. Bagrova's design projects included fashion promotions for world-renowned fashion designers Versace and Oscar le la Renta. Inspired by her work, the trend-setting surroundings of Soho and Showalter's photography, in May 2001 Bagrova created the initial designs that became the Suva line. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Showalter graduated from the School of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He worked as a graphic designer and art director for eight years in New York City at creative agencies in Greenwich Village and Soho. It was in New York that he began photographing and making plans to travel and photograph all over the world. Since then, Showalter has photographed in over twenty countries on four continents and his images are exclusively represented ...