Thursday, April 30, 2015

Ukraine Fashion week and Georgia Tbilisi debutants May 1 - 6th 2015



 By

Sampson I.M Onwuka


The coverage does not inspire, the fashion struggles and there is overstatement on national identity.
Ukraine Fashion Week and Georgia for first time, but of course it will be the first in Georgia to be hosted with help of Ukraine and some names in fashion next week.

The Georgia Fashion week will debut for the first time between May 1 - May 6 2015. Unfortunately Agbani3 would not be there, but there are no better events than designers showing us something exciting.  

Last year's fashion week in Kiev and in Ukraine was marred by several protest and government intervention, and some of the designers whose name will meet us for the first time used the score card 'Fashion week for Peace', but the fashion for peace would not last or do we expect Europe and Russia to decide their fate with spells from a show.


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 @Ukraine today

Bohemia Fashion is no longer in Vogue. The gown fitting has no home or nationality and hardly peasantry. The Vogue example below is randomly selected and it has the full intent at showing what the authors perceive as unique Ukrainian garb. But it fails - perhaps differently....

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 @Milan
We cannot betray the true spirit of fashion but the above picture from Milan and its street display reasons why the search for identity cannot fracture or founder from designers who influence our reasons. One look, you are at home in Milan, but the man could impress as better Georgian than perhaps Italian, more New York than Milanese. 


Some of the problem of delivery and the purse purchasing wool and fabric from Turkey and from Moscow and Russia throw light on Tblisi and the challenges it will face in its first ever attempt at showing world fashion and what it looks like from Georgia. 

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The gap between Russia and Ukraine is still large, and for some of us from New York, the gap is even larger between these Countries and Georgia, especially how Georgians in Queens and in Brooklyn perceive of themselves.

The ongoing struggle between these countries is yet to find any major definition. If we discuss the essay to be different from problems experienced in Russia and Ukraine, we would end up defending some of the market turns in Russia Crude oil markets. But there is something different, how the world perceive the dress code of the far East is item that need to be discussed.

How the market leads from Moscow as from Ukraine is also a different story. To be sure, a separation between individual item or personal property and national identity is not much a product of fashion as the definition for minimalism is expected to find its meaning in nearly dressing for major players in the market. 

Whereas Showing  sharp curves in recent Russian economy and possible crude oil appreciation in the last few years, the fight may be decided differently and here fashion speaks louder than war.

The models are not lively and the inlaid designs are not articles of fashion, they look like new entrant in the world markets but for a small country "little Russia" that has as much demographic sparing in suit and men's designer jackets and wool, there is a larger context missing from the definition.

Perhaps the next week's fashion week for Georgia may mean more than one thing, but the names will need to impress to be mentioned anywhere else.


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There is hardly anything specific about this dress code, it is too normal for a national Ukraine garb.


We have to separate which one is which in terms of the styles of dressing, vyshyvankas, zhupan, and gzhel which Liana Satenstein argues in her recent blog at the vogue to be the curvatures in Ukraine tradition that is now making it to the world stage through names such as Vita Kin and the Karajay.
But this theory is highly debatable given the fact that no body could easily identity what is unique Ukrainian and what is the product of the    

Liana Satenstein, “Ukrainians have a unique method of decorating clothing with embroidery, and that’s always impressed me,” says Kin about her designs via email. “I adapted this ancient heritage into a modern context, adding a seventies vibe, when clothing was more relaxed and friendly. It’s a bohemian eccentricity in a very luxe execution.” - Vita Kin (Vogue)

Among the names which we may now speak - Lera Leshchova, Nina Vasadze, Aleksandra Knyr, Vita Kin and the director of Ukraine Fashion worthy of mention for Georgia - Daria Shapovalova. 














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