The sixteenth season of Lviv Fashion Week will take place in Lviv on October 29 – November 1. The main peculiarity of this season is the increase in the number of participating designers. The shows of the main schedule are to be presented during all 4 days at Lviv Fashion Week. Lviv Fashion Week assists Ukrainian designers who managed to prepare their collections under these complicated political and economic conditions, and provides them with various opportunities and ways of presentation.
Mainly Ukrainian designers participate in this year shows. New Spring/Summer 2016 collections will be presented by Roksolana Bogutska, Oksana Mukha, NovaNa Studio, Mykytyuk&Yatsentyuk, Kateryna Karol, Lesia Semi, Uliana Nedoshytko, Steblakizm (Lviv); IDoL, Cher-nika (Kyiv); Chernikova (Ivano-Frankivsk); KEKA, Godis, Osipov (Odesa); GraNat by Natalia Grechana (Mykolaiv). Among the foreign guests are Belorussian designer Natasha TSU RAN, Polish designer Alicja Czarniecka with her collection for SAX35TH brand, fashion editors, fashion bloggers and fashion photographers from France, Italy, Germany, and Poland.
As part of cooperation with the International Contest of Clothes' Designers - The Golden Thread (Poland) - the finalist Magdalena Orze? will present her Spring/Summer 2016 collection at Lviv Fashion Week main location.
Traditionally, Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport is the main Lviv Fashion Week location, where shows of the main schedule from October 31 till November 1 will take place. This season, Lviv Fashion Week is going to involve new interesting locations for collections presentation. Among them - "The Arsenal" club, where shows will be held on October 29-30. Additional locations for the project presentations are Astoria Hotel, George Hotel, Leopolis Hall.
This season Lviv Fashion Week proceeds with the SABOTAGE project for young designers. The contest as such has been changed: the finalists’ collections will be shown as presentations. The contest will take place on Friday, October 30, 2015 at "The Arsenal". Ten designers from different parts of Ukraine (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnitsky, Uzhgorod, Odesa) and Belarus will take part in the contest. This time the partner of SABOTAGE is The Golden Thread International contest for clothes' designers (“Z?ota Nitka”, Poland). The Grand Prix winner becomes a participant of the contest finale in the city of Lodz.
The main schedule of Spring/Summer 2016 collection show will also include lectures and presentations. The official opening of Lviv Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 starts with presentation of the new perfume by Lesia Semi brand. It will take place at Astoria Hotel on October 28. The new book Fashion in Ukraine in the ХХ c. by the fashion expert Zenovia Tkanko will be presented during Lviv Fashion Week in the public talk format, where everyone will be able to get acquainted. The following lecturers will present their topics: famous Ukrainian fashion critic Zoya Zvyniatskivska with her lecture "Pop up Store: collaboration in creative space. Fashion and object design", blogger and expert of Best Fashion Awards Myroslav Melnyk with his lecture "Fashion and Internet technologies", and Gianni Fontana, director of Milan Style Academy with his lecture "Street style and its interpretations".
Roksolana Bogutska’s show will be charitable and held in collaboration with "I am not alone" fund: all the money for the invitations will be used to help children from orphanages and needy families.
Lviv Fashion Week SS 2016 schedule
