Born in Ukraine, and raised in Belarus, Natallia Pilipenka headed to NYC, where she attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, graduating in May of 2007. While at FIT, she was honored to have her final thesis project "Confusion" featured on the cover page of the May 2nd, 2007 edition of Women’s Wear Daily. Upon graduation, she received the school’s Critique Award for her specialization of Current Scene, as well as a design award presented by Cotton, Inc. She was also a semi-finalist in the CosmoGIRL! - Born to Lead design competition.

In 2007 Natallia was awarded a 3-month internship at the Anne Valerie Hash Design Studio in Paris for two of her garments featured in the Arts of Fashion 2007 International Fashion Design Competition in Miami. In October 2008 she showed her ‘Twist, Stack, & Wrap Around’ collection at the Arts of Fashion 2008 International Fashion Design Competition in San Francisco, part of the Debut Series sponsored by YKK. The collection was later featured for the Spring/Summer ’09 season at Début, a New York City boutique dedicated to emerging designers. In November 2009 Natallia was awarded a showroom space at the Arts of Fashion 2009 International Fashion Design Competition in Philadelphia, where her ‘Children of the Dark’ collection was featured. In July 2010 she joined the Designers team teaching at the Arts of Fashion Summer Program in Paris. In October 2010, during Funkshion Fashion Week in Miami, Natallia won the Fashion Group International (South Florida Region) Emerging Designers Competition with her "Children of the Dark" collection.

Presently, Natallia continues to develop her own collections while also focusing on photography as inspiration. She teaches fashion design at Parsons The New School For Design, and participates in InvestFashion, an international investment platform for emerging designers.

Natallia’s design work draws its inspiration from architectural forms, the juxtaposition of manmade and organic imagery, and a desire to capture complex human emotions, all of which are reflected in her experimentation with textures, shapes, layering, asymmetry, and the expression of construction lines.