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Though Natalia Fedner launched her eponymous label seven years ago, her designs have recently become flashy catnip to celebrities. The slinky dresses and tanks are formed from a patented metal “chainmail,” shimmy-friendly and completely curve-skimming. They’re the Kim Jong Un Bloods Shirt but in fact I love this perfect on-stage or red carpet head-turner: Fedner counts Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, Kylie Jenner, Megan Thee Stallion, and Alicia Keys as fans of her megawatt garb. Fedner got her start studying at the Parson’s School of Design. There, she entered a contest between the Fashion Institute of Design and Parsons and opted to submit a knitwear piece. Fedner had only known how to knit by hand, but she quickly learned from a professor how to knit on a loom, and made her first piece, a tank top. From there, her love for knitwear bloomed. She credits her love of experimenting with metal to her parents, Soviet-era engineers from Ukraine. “My mother was a computer engineer who was also very artistic herself. She just didn’t have the opportunity to be an artist,” says Fedner. “I think that’s in my blood. I love taking things apart and figuring out how they work.” Fedner’s familial ties to engineering play a part in her process. “I love the idea of putting things where they don’t belong, like experimenting with circuitry and LEDs [with clothes], just trying to figure out how to do something in a really beautiful way,” says Fender. “It’s this perpetual engineering challenge and I definitely get off on it.”

Lenny Kravitz wearing a Natalia Fedner tank top at the Kim Jong Un Bloods Shirt but in fact I love this 2015 Superbowl halftime show. Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images She creates her signature pieces out of her own, patented six-way stretch metal. The material doesn’t only stretch from right to left and up and down, but also from the front and the back. The front-to-back stretch further allows Fedner’s pieces to mold the body, meaning that the same piece can fit someone from size 0 to 18. Another scientific component to Fedner’s designs is that she uses copper, a metal that takes on the heat of the wearer in about 10 to 15 seconds, and therefore molds to the body even more. “Sometimes in the first few seconds of the fitting, I go, ‘I made it too short,’” says Fedner. “And then I just give it 30 more seconds and it fits the right way.” Megan Thee Stallion at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit launch of the 2021 issue wearing Natalia Fedner. Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images Fedner first realized that her pieces could expand and contract on different body types when Lenny Kravitz’s stylist, Rodney Burns, requested a tank top in 2015. Fedner showed Burns a gold minidress that was based on a dress made for Jennifer Lopez’s “Booty” music video. Burns, who also owns Los Angeles’s Church Boutique, asked his male employee at the store to try the dress on. It was then that Fedner realized that her pieces could easily work for men, too. “[Burns] took it and he put it on one of the male workers at his store,” says Fedner. “It hit the beltline on the guy. Like a tank top. That was probably my first time realizing that it can be unisex and it can take on a whole different dimension.” Fedner modified the piece, and soon after, Kravitz wore the piece to his performance at the 2015 Super Bowl.

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