Lviv Fashion Week AW 2015

On March 25-29 XV Lviv Fashion Week will be held in Lviv, aimed at the support of the Ukrainian designers, new qualitative ideas and projects. Not with standing complicated political and economic conditions and current military actions on the territory of Ukraine organizers have taken decision to hold Fashion Week – not standing aside the general situation and joining the “I am not alone” Charity Fund oriented at the aid to the wounded Ukrainian soldiers. 

Main location of the XV Lviv Fashion Week is Danylo Halytskyi International Airport "Lviv" where the shows of the main schedule will take place on March 28-29. Shows and presentations of March 25-27 will be held on different platforms in the centre of Lviv: Astoria Hotel, George Hotel, Leopolis hall and on Arena Lviv stadium.

Shows of the main schedule:
March 27 - Arena Lviv stadium; March 28-29 - Danylo Halytskyi International Airport "Lviv"

Roksolana Bogutska, Oksana Mukha, Marta Wachholz, Oksana Piekna, Kateryna Karol, Lesia Semi, Bazhani, Cher Nika by Cherkas, KEKA, Lidiya Yanitska, GraNat by Natalia Grechana, Nikonova will demonstrate new Autumn/Winter 2015 collections. Special guest is Serzh Smolin with the showcase of the IDoL brand. Among international guests is the Belarussian designer Natasha TSU RAN.

OFF Schedule
March 26, George Hotel

Traditionally, Lviv Fashion Week supports young designers: in student showcases of the OFF Schedule project collections from Ukraine and Belarus will be presented.

BEYOND THE CATWALK PROGRAMME
Pre-premiere screening of the film «Z Joke» by Oleksii Zalevskyi
March 26, 7.00 p.m., Kinopalace Kopernik

The film “Z Joke” is the debut feature length musical film, philosophical parable by the well-known Ukrainian designer Oleksii Zalevskyi. The world premiere of the film “Z Joke” took place at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, (SIFF) in June 2014. The film was the winner of the awards “Best Director” and “Best Music for the film” at London International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema. One of artistic surprises of the film “Z Joke” are the songs of legendary rock band “Agata Kristi”, which will sound in English language in new adaptations. Starring: Alexander Leeshon (Great Britain), Stas Kostiushkin (Russia), Inna Zobova (France) and others. In Ukraine the film will be released on March 26 and pre-premiere screenings will take place at the Ukrainian Fashion Week and Lviv Fashion Week.

“Tendencies and trends in modern fashion: sources, forecasting methods, trend-bureau”: lecture by Myroslav Melnyk 
March 28, 2:00 p.m., Astoria Hotel

Art critic, blogger and expert of the Best Fashion Awards Myroslav Melnyk will deliver a lecture on relevance and types of trends, fashion-forecasting methodology, specifics of the work of trend-bureau. Lecture contains rich illustrative materials on trends of 2015-2016.

“Fashion-marketing and Trends“: lecture by Gianni Fontana
March 29, 2:00 p.m., Leopolis-hall

Gianni Fontana is an Italian specialist in fashion-marketing, journalist, director of Milan Style Academy, author of the blog “The Style Buff”, dedicated to men’s fashion. Gianni has been working for more than 20 years in fashion industry, he has rich international experience of cooperation with multinational, multi-brand and multi-production corporations and agencies, consults a great deal of famous brands specializing in fashion industry, the style of life, art and design. The Style Buff is the frequent guest of Milan Fashion Week and Seoul Fashion Week.

Fashion-dialogues
March 29, 12:00 p.m., Leopolis-hall

Within the framework of Lviv Fashion Week in this season new project “Fashion-dialogues” begins its activity, aiming to unite the professionals of fashion industry in informal communication and productive discussions. For the participation in dialogues designers, models, stylists, hairdressers, makeup artists, photographers, buyers, fashion-journalists, fashion-bloggers, tissue suppliers are invited. The first meeting will take place on March 29, authors of the idea hope that such dialogues will become regular and will help to create new successful joint projects, uniting efforts of different specialists in fashion-sphere.

Showroom
Showroom of Lviv Fashion Week will work at the main location at Danylo Halytskyi International Airport "Lviv" on March 28-29.