Nikita Karizma graduated from London College of Fashion with a 1st class honours from the BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Development Clothing course with her range Fashion VS Abuse. 

The clothing has been designed with protective elements including buckles, animalistic feathers, custom crystallised rebellious spikes and the colour palette stripped down to a tonal nude spectrum. The headgear implies that women have no say when being abused & the harness restricts your body movement.  The 'armoured crab' jacket is designed to enhance your confidence & the 'fleshed body' plays on female vulnerability.  Alongside the clothing she has developed a fashion technology product which is a combined rape/SOS alarm embedded into an accessory that works by sending a Bluetooth signal to your smartphone to send out a danger alert message to a family member using its GPS technology to locate you via an application.  It also gives abuse victims confidence to walk the streets again as well as women walking home at night. 

She collaborated with young filmmaker Marta Tucci to create an anti abuse fashion film with the aim of bringing awareness to this issue in society through the power of the media and the fashion world that the general public & youth tends to be highly focussed on and responsive to in the current day.

“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.  But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.”
– Nicole Kidman
UN Goodwill Embassador

Photography - Marta Tucci