Fashion weeks usually start at a slow pace and end with a bang. Ukrainian Fashion Week is different in this sense: year after year it gets opened with one of the best shows of the entire Week – Poustovit. When I caught up with the live streaming, a song in English was playing, models strutted [Continue reading...]

The start of the Ukrainian Fashion Week was marked by the highly-awaited show of Lilia Poustovit whose eponymous line has long been deemed an epitome of national fashion, long before the concept of modernised folk symbolism gained its wide-spread popularity. The already familiar minimalistic clean cuts, frequently over-sized shapes and unique [Continue reading...]

I was extremely happy to find out that LP by POUSTOVIT, an Ukrainian designer Lilia Poustovit’s second line, is now carried by a multibrand boutique Spiga2 in Milan which is owned by Dolce & Gabbana. Congrats! It is the only one brand from the countries of Eastern Europe and the CIS among the 21 collections [Continue reading...]

If you kept that now-vintage Nirvana concert tee from back in the day, we’re talking circa the 1990’s, bring it out! Is it tattered and torn decades later? All the better! Fashions come and go; yet somehow they manage to repeat themselves. This year we are going back to the ’90′s with a full-fledged grunge [Continue reading...]

Winter White White would make a powerful statement this Fall, and the verdict: wear it head to toe. There’s something about winter white in a classic cut like a trouser or pencil skirt, so alluring and chic. [Continue reading...]