Seven Ukrainian designers will present their Fall 2023 collections from Friday to Tuesday during Paris Fashion Week based at 7 Rue d’Argenteuil.
Supported by USAID’s Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine, the designers will showcase demi-couture, ready-to-wear and footwear collections.
Among the brands are Frolov, a “couture-to-wear” brand; Kachorovska, Ukraine’s largest shoe brand, My Sleeping Gypsy, a sustainable brand, and Chereshnivska, a Ukraine-based unisex and sustainable brand featuring hand-painted prints using recycled materials. Other brands include Katrina Kvit, a leather goods label, Pascal, a high fashion and arty brand, and Olena Dats, a fashion brand that produces evening wear.
Some of them look like my sleeping gypsy.
The project was designed by Jane Sidari in collaboration with the pre-war Ukrainian fashion industry from 2020 and developed the idea to showcase the country’s fashion industry at fashion weeks for the first time in September 2021. -Commerce website, Angelsforfashion.com, launched in April 2022 for Ukrainian designers, supports 30-plus brands to survive the war.
A view of the fall from Pascal.
“I have great respect for all the people of Ukraine and how they adapt to survive and continue to grow,” Sidari said. I have discovered a hidden gem where most of the world’s history began but most of us don’t know about. The Ukrainian fashion industry is what I want to work with for the rest of my career.”
Fall View from Olena Dats’
This is the fifth time USAID’s Competitive Economy Program has supported this project and the second season in Paris.
