Award season continues! 8th annual ELLE Style Awards took place in Kiev this Wednesday. Editors, designers and fashionable crowd showed up at a museum located in a 18th century fortress dressed in the latest designer collections and entertained themselves with the music by the hottest artists, including Jamala who is dubbed “Ukrainian Amy [Continue reading...]

Shopping and fashion in Moscow have long been synonymous with grand department stores GUM and TSUM, infamous for their über-luxury and crowds of prying tourists. In reality, though, the capital is an intricate map of hidden shopping treasures, many of those being unique in their kind. [Continue reading...]

…as seen on Russian and Ukrainian catwalks. Something old, something new… This season we will see both new and exciting things and old trends declining to fade away. Some global trends failed to bloom on Russian and Ukrainian catwalks, like the sixties’ silhouettes, burglar stripes and sheer inserts, while others have been [Continue reading...]

The 31st Ukrainian Fashion Week kicked off today! Do you know what this number means? It means that UFW has been around for 15 years, longer than any fashion week in Russia! The amount of great designers in Ukraine is astounding (45 of them are showing at UFW alone), and I’m really amazed by the [Continue reading...]

ARTEMKLIMCHUK F/W 2012-13 at Ukrainian Fashion Week (picture courtesy of fashionweek.ua) I keep discovering great new blogs and sharing the knowledge with you! In my opinion, Ukrainian bloggers are more organized that Russians in terms of fashion week coverage. I think the main reason is that PR people and designers really embraced the blogosphere [Continue reading...]