Hairy silhouettes, folklore, and avant-garde aesthetics have transformed the young Bulgarian designer Victor Garbeskov into a new name on the fashion stage.

From his apartment in Milan, without a workshop, team, or major fashion brand behind him, Garbeskov has reached some of the world's largest stages: Eurovision, the Met Gala in New York, and the pages of Portugal's Vogue. His name is now behind one of the most discussed visions of Dara, and his work is drawing attention from the international fashion scene.

Only a year ago, Garbeskov was working on a vision for the Met Gala in New York with singer Jazzelle of Skunk Anansie, and today his designs are featured in Portugal's Vogue. The paradox is that all of this is happening far from the luxurious fashion workshops typically associated with major designers.

"I don't have a workshop, I don't have a team. Everything happens in my apartment. I make all the dresses up to my bed. The photos look like a massive production, but the reality is quite different," Garbeskov explains.

Garbeskov, a third-year student at the prestigious NABA university in Milan, where he studies fashion design, has actually been working professionally for six to seven years. He graduated from the National Art High School for Applied Arts “St. Luke” in Sofia with a specialization in fashion design, recognizing early on that he wanted to create entire artistic worlds, not just clothes.

"Fashion for me has never just been about clothes. I'm interested in photography, video, makeup, hair, lighting, and music. I want to create entire worlds — more art than just fashion," he says. It is precisely this unique visual language that attracts Dara and her team. They have known each other since Garbeskov was in 12th grade.

"I know her stylist, Ivan Tsutsmanov, and when she reached out to me, I immediately knew this would be a great project, not just because she is beautiful, but also because I know her as a person. My ideas came very naturally, and I even allowed more experimentation with the visions because I knew she could bring them to life," Garbeskov adds. Over the years, the two have created many intriguing things together, and for Eurovision, the idea came quickly and required a prompt response.

The creative duo works on photo sessions, then on a music video, and today they are jointly creating one of the most recognizable visions around Bulgaria's Eurovision participation.

Everything started with Dara's own idea: to be a modern magician. "When she realized she had won the Bulgarian selection, she decided she wanted to be a modern magician. And the events were fatefully aligned because I was already working on similar hairy visions," Garbeskov reveals. Thus, the extravagant stage outfit, inspired by Bulgarian magician traditions but filtered through the futuristic aesthetics of contemporary fashion, was born. The hairy pants were actually created a year and a half ago, and subsequently, the entire concept around Dara gradually developed, from the fluffy elements during the selection to the final vision for the European stage.