From Ukraine with Love
Shapovalova’s latest project is her women’s label The Swans, which gets its name from Truman Capote. The first collection featured cartoon prints by fellow designer Anna K on simple twill sheaths.
A look from The Swans’s Spring 2015 collection.
Kostya Omelya of Omelya The 26-year-old designer’s line Omelya, which launched in Kiev for Spring 2014, is deliberately simple. The androgynous, ample shapes mean that men can wear them too.
A look from Omelya’s Spring 2015 collection.
“I like minimalism and special accents,” says Omelya, who cites Bauhaus geometry as an inspiration for his Fall 2015 collection.
A look from Omelya’s Pre-Fall 2015 collection.
Anna K Anna K, 19, launched her first collection three years ago with a snarky series called Fashion Circus (named after a column penned by Suzy Menkes in the New York Times), featuring statements like “I Don’t Give Interviews,” “Follow the Buyers,” and “I Am On The List.” Next, she incorporated some of the words she heard as a teenage model “without really understanding the meanings” – “It Girl,” “Sold Out,” “Must Have”—into a collection of Fashion Dictionary tees. And most recently, K launched the Dream Team collection, a T-shirt collaboration with Les(Art)Ists with the last names and birth years of her favorite models : Cara Delevingne, Coco Rocha, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Natalia Vodianova.
Anna K x Les(Art)Ists T-shirt.
This spring, K added ready-to-wear, drawing inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” in her bow-filled, embroidered, flirty collection.
A look from Anna K’s Spring 2015 collection.