Lviv will host the XVIII Lviv Fashion Week during October 26-30. Lviv Fashion Week undergoes changes this season – its logo and website are going to change, traditional platforms for designers are transformed into new interesting projects, locations are changed – shows on the main catwalk of the Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv will take place not during 2, but 3 days, October 28-30, additional locations for presentations, shows and educational projects will be Art Studio Passage, Panorama Lviv Hotel, parking of King Cross Leopolis mall, Arena Lviv, Leopolis Hall, the First Stage of Modern Dramaturgy Drama.UA.
Lviv Fashion Week will start with a new project for young brands Brand Factory on October 26. Lviv Fashion Week launches the new program of Ukrainian brands support, which will replace the annual contest of young designers SABOTAGE, which used to be traditionally held in autumn. Brand Factory will consist of 3 parts - fashion battle, pop-up store and fashion school. Fashion battle – is a competitive show, a competition between the new Ukrainian brands of clothes, shoes and accessories, which will be held in the evening on October 26. Pop-up store of the brands participants will operate for 4 days in separate showrooms in TG Opera Passage and Art Studio Passage. Fashion school continues lectures, which are traditionally held by Lviv Fashion Week, and will consist of lectures, a workshop on a practical topic in the field of creative industries, meetings with successful Ukrainian brands. All events of Fashion school will take place at a new creative location Art Studio Passage, and together with presentations of brands and parties will complement the space of the pop-up store of the Brand Factory project. The winners of Brand Factory will be announced on Saturday October 29, who will receive prizes from the project partners. In particular, the organizers of the International Contest of Clothes' Designers "The Golden Thread" (Poland) will choose a brand that will participate in the contest final in Lodz in May 2017.
A presentation of the modern jewelry brand Zhukova Jewelry in Panorama Lviv Hotel and a Steblakizm show will be held on October 26. Designer Olga Steblak – is known for her extraordinary conceptual approach to locations and organization of shows, and this time Steblakizm show will be held on the First Stage of Modern Dramaturgy Drama.UA on Horodotska Street.
Young designers will present their new collections on October 27 in OFF Schedule shows, which, together with a show of Miniature brand will be held at a new location of Lviv Fashion Week - parking of the King Cross Leopolis mall. Later that evening Lesia Semi will present a new collection and new perfumes of her brand at Arena Lviv.
At the main location - the Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv - Sofitie, Ivanna Yukhymchuk, GraNat by Natalia Grechana, Olesia Hryn, Kostelni, Slastion, Mykytyuk&Yatsentyuk, Couture de fleur, Oksana Mukha by Kateryna Yalova, Tata Kalita, Kateryna Karol will show their collections Spring/Summer 2017. Edelvika (Lutsk) and Pavlo Milcharek (Lviv) brands will show their debut collections. The Italian brand Balossa, known for its works on the basis of deconstruction of white shirt, as well as the Ukrainian designers Fedir Vozianov (Vozianov) and Serge Smolin (IDoL) will be special guests of Lviv Fashion Week. Among the international guests of Lviv Fashion Week are fashion-editors, photographers and buyers from Italy, Germany and Poland.
The educational program of Lviv Fashion Week includes lectures of the Brand Factory Project, a lecture by a renowned Ukrainian fashion critic Zoya Zvyniatskivska, a round table devoted to the topic "Fashion education in Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects", moderator - Head of the Department of Artistic Textile and Apparel Design of the Kyiv State Institute of Decorative and Applied Art and Design, blogger Myroslav Melnyk.
Lviv Fashion Week showroom will work at Danylo Halytskyi International Airport Lviv during October 28-30. Participants: 7/11, Lesia Semi, Tata Kalita, Nedoshytko Uliana, Burdo, MaNO, UT, Kateryna Karol, Synyava, Alina Yatcenko, Olena Khomiakova Jewelry Atelier, ETNOKRA?NA, Martell, Kolizhanka, Good Fellow.
Traditional charity show by Roksolana Bogutska will be held outside the main program of Lviv Fashion Week – on Saturday November 5 in Mirotel Resort&Spa in Truskavets. The show is held in cooperation with the foundation "I'm not alone" - all costs from tickets sales will be used to help children from orphanages and poor families.
