Milan's grandmother, Kruna Bogdanović, was one of the main ''culprits'' responsible for Milan's love of fashion and clothes. She was educated in Vienna and Paris and was one of the first women in Belgrade to commit what was at that time a major outrage: she had the guts to wear a male suit. Before World War II she made regular trips to Paris where she bought the latest fabrics to take back to her dressmakers in Belgrade. This picture shows her wearing the Yugoslavia costume which she wore at a fancy dress party given in honour of Prince Pavle Karađorđević.



Milan Marković supported many humanitarian causes during his long career in Germany. He was the driving force behind a number of charity events and was the Fight AIDS Fund's most generous benefactor. After he moved to Belgrade, he founded the Serbian-German Design Forum, an organisation that supports and promotes the work of young artists and designers.



When living in Germany, Milan always yearned for Belgrade, his dream location. His dream of working and living here has at last become a reality, and now that he is here, he feels a continual urge to photograph local architecture. One of his favourites is the building housing the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, founded by his great-grandfather Stevan Marković. Despite his fondness of Belgrade, he still finds it hard to adapt to a country with no functioning government... He believes and hopes that things will soon improve.

While he concedes that the world of fashion is not all that he once imagined it to be, Milan has not let his pioneering enthusiasm wane. His passion for dreaming up and creating fashion has overcome all the difficulties he has encountered in an industry which is all too often driven by publicity.

An outlet of Satyricon in Hamburg which sold exclusive creations by Milan Marković. Apart from clothes, they also sold jewellery and homeware.

Milan Marković, artistic director of CC, with Claudia Carpendale, Cologne.