Visual Instinct: Fashion Talks Returns with Ante Begić and Sven Vranješ

Fashion Talks · Cultural Programme

23 October 2026

The full floor at Holographik Space during Fashion Talks, Visual Instinct The full floor at Holographik Space during Fashion Talks, Visual Instinct

On Thursday 22 October Fashion Talks came back for a new season, and the floor was full before the first question. The fifth edition was called Visual Instinct. Karla Zelić, who hosts the series, sat down with Ante Begić and Sven Vranješ, two Zagreb art directors whose work runs from Nike, Speedo and Formula 1 to brand identities, pop-ups and campaigns.

The set was built for the evening. The Camaleonda in the middle of the floor for the host, the Togo for the guests, a Panthella lamp behind the sofas, the whole stage washed in pink and red, and a Brillo Bearbrick keeping Karla company. The bar ran before and after, and the photographs here are from the night itself.

The set before the doors opened: the Holographik sign, a Panthella lamp and a Bearbrick on the floor
The audience under the pink light at Fashion Talks
Karla Zelić with her notes on the Camaleonda
Ante Begić with the microphone
Sven Vranješ answering under the Panthella lamp
The audience at Holographik Space during Fashion Talks
The full floor at Holographik Space during Fashion Talks, Visual Instinct

The conversation stayed on what the title promised: how taste develops, when a decision is made by eye rather than by argument, and what it means today to have a recognisable hand in design. Karla took the two practices where they overlap and where they part ways.

Sven Vranješ works where branding, campaigns, motion and VFX meet, between global brands and the local scene, and treats taste as a filter: rhythm, movement and colour pass through it and come out as layout, tempo and atmosphere. Ante Begić left agency life for an independent practice that runs from visual identities and creative concepts to pop-ups, brand activations, launches and large events, with a network of collaborators in photography, film, styling and production, and stays in every phase of a project. Both studied visual communications at the School of Design in Zagreb, and the evening kept returning to that shared starting point and the very different roads out of it.

Sven Vranješ laughing mid-answer
Ante Begić laughing on the Togo sofa
Guests standing at the back of the floor
A guest in the audience, arms crossed, listening
Sven Vranješ and Ante Begić seen from behind the audience
Ante Begić, the lamp and the full floor
The floor from the side, the stage lit pink and the tables full

Fashion Talks is the conversation series Holographik Space has run since May 2025. The guests so far: Nikola Filić and Deni Horvatić, Barbara Janković and Ivoje Stepić, the stylists Ana Nikačević and Petar Trbović, the photographers Franjo Matković and Matej Jurčević, and now Ante Begić and Sven Vranješ.

Entry is always free and there is no reservation, which is why the floor fills early. The next edition will be announced here on the news page, on Instagram and in the newsletter below.

Guests at a table during the talk
Karla Zelić listening to an answer
Karla Zelić, Sven Vranješ and Ante Begić after the talk
The floor seen from the back, every chair taken

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