Lviv Fashion Week SS 2016: results

The sixth season of Lviv Fashion Week took place in Lviv on October 29 – November 1. It was aimed at supporting Ukrainian designers, qualitatively new ideas and projects. The main peculiarity of this season was the increase in the number of participating designers. The shows of the main schedule were presented during all 4 days at Lviv Fashion Week.

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport was the main Lviv Fashion Week location for the third time now. This season Lviv Fashion Week involved new interesting locations for collections presentation. Among them – "The Weapon market" near the Arsenal, where shows were held on October 29-30. Additional locations for the project presentations were Astoria Hotel, George Hotel, Leopolis Hall, Glory cafe.

The main schedule included new Spring\Summer 2016 collections 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 international guests were the Belarusian designer Natasha TSU RAN, Polish designer Alicja Czarniecka with a collection for SAX35TH brand, fashion-editors, fashion-bloggers and fashion-photographers from France, Italy, Germany, Poland. As part of the cooperation with The Golden Thread Contest for Clothes' Designers (Poland), Magdalena Orze?, the contest finalist, presented her Spring/Summer 2016 collection at Lviv Fashion Week main location. 

This season, Lviv Fashion Week proceeded with the SABOTAGE project for young designers. The contest as such has been changed: the finalists’ collections were shown as presentations. The SABOTAGE-2015 contest finale featured 10 collections by young designers from various regions of Ukraine (Uzhgorod, Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Lviv) and Belarus. The Golden Thread (“Z?ota Nitka”, Poland) International Contest for Clothes' Designers was SABOTAGE contest’s partner. The jury (?ukasz Lawrenz, Ewa Bie?kowska (The Golden Thread), Marcellous L.Jones (the founder and Chief Editor of thefashioninsider.com and The Fashion Insider TV), Roksolana Bogutska (designer), Victoria Larina (Chief editor of Lviv Today magazine), Natalia Lukianets (fashion-expert, blogger) chose the winners:

- The first prize – Agarodnaia Natalia and Tatsiana (Belarus) / participation in the finale of The Golden Thread International Contest for Clothes' Designers in Lodz, Poland.

- The second prize -  Rozova Anastasia (Belarus) / participation in the next edition of Lviv Fashion Week

- The third prize -  Yuzak Valentyna and Yuzak Olha / DOUBLE ME (Ukraine) / monetary reward

Behind-the-scenes program of Lviv Fashion Week included lectures and presentations. The presentation of the new DIVINE by Lesia Semi fragrance became the official opening of Lviv Fashion Week SS 2016 (October 28, Astoria Hotel). The presentation of the new book "Fashion in Ukraine in the XX century" by fashion historian Zenoviia Tkanko took place in the public talk format. The visitors had the possibility to learn major stages of Ukrainian fashion establishment, as presented by the author. Lecturers: well-known Ukrainian fashion-critic Zoia Zvyniatskivska with her lecture "Pop up Store: collaborations in the creative space. Fashion and subject design". The listeners could hear the details of the first Kyiv pop up store creation; Myroslav Melnyk, the blogger and expert of the Best Fashion Awards, with his topic "Fashion and Internet technologies"; Gianni Fontana, the director of Milano Academy of Style, who dedicated his lecture to the street style phenomenon, Bohdan Zubchenko, perfumer, with a topic on perfumery wardrobe and perfume esthetics.

Roksolana Bogutska’s show on November 1, held in Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport, was traditionally organized jointly with the "I am not alone" fund, and was a charitable one. All funds from the sale of invitations (about 70,000 UAH was raised) will be used to help children from orphanages and needy families.