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...]

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...]

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...]

As we are now in the middle of the Russian-Ukrainian fashion month, I would like to post an overview of what is happening right now in both countries. In the picture: a design from TOSHA S/S 2012 collection Saint Petersburg, Russia Defile Na Neve fashion week has just ended and, in my humble opinion, it [Continue reading...]