Fashion shows organised in the cooperation with, among others, the office of the Fashion Week in Kazakhstan. Original projects of the Kazakhstani and Polish designers. It will be a masterpiece that blurs borders, exposes a common passion, which is fashion.
Zeken Moda – Kazakhstani brand. Its main designer, Kairolla Abishev, combines Kazakhstani stylistics with European elegance. He designs clothes for men and women. He has presented his collections at the Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Astana, Fashion Week in Moscow and in Paris. He will present collections in Poland for the first time.
Jacob (Jakub Bartnik) – winner of the first edition of the show Project Runway (TVN). Fashion designer, working under a pseudonym of Jacob Birge and the founder of Jacob Birge Vision brand, 2013 nominee to two international awards: WGSN Global Fashion Awards (the most prestigious fashion platform in the world) and Scottish Fashion Awards. The brand is known for its ultra-modern take on fashion, reflecting modern woman and her needs. The brand has shown their collections at the London Fashion Week twice and it received the recognition of stylists and the media. Its designed were featured in “Vogue China”, “Elle”, “Glamour Germany”, “Harper’s Bazaar”, “Trendland”, “Wonderland”, “Idol” and “Fabulous”, among others.
Aneta Popławska – fashion designer, stylists. She graduated from fashion design at the International School of Costume Studies and Design in Warsaw and from management and production engineering at the Białystok University of Technology. Her projects are known for combining art and modern technologies. Previous collections were created using technical fabrics, laser cutting technology, currently the designer’s work focuses on 3D printing. Popławska has presented her collections at the Fashionable East in Białystok, Amber Look Gala in Gdańsk, Tricity Culture Allegory, Sopot Summer Fashion Days, Open Mind Fashion and Design Festival in Gdańsk among others. She treats her every collection personally as a for of communication with the world. Nowadays, it’s important to be inspired by women and inspire women.
The figure of Athena, the only goddess on the Olympus dealing with weaving and embroidery, which she mastered and passed to humanity, is the starting point of her latest collection. As the patron of just war and wisdom, she is the epitome of strength, struggle and intelligence. Her name is also an anagram of Aneta’s name.
The collection combines traditional crafts with modern technologies. In addition to hand-made embroidery, the designs are enriched with elements printed using 3D technology and refer to such attributes of the goddess as olive leaves and a spear. The models on the catwalk are a kind of emanation of strength, expressed in bold combinations of transparent fabrics with opaque and asymmetric cuts. The colours are expressed in noble shades of gray, gold, black and red.