Odessa Fashion Week - Odessa Holiday Fashion Week

Heat. Summer. And somewhere in a sunny city on the seashore, people leisurely walk along the old streets and along the very Deribasovskaya street, where the weather is always good, tourists queue up to the legendary chair of Ostap Bender and go down to the port, along the Potemkin stairs.

Seaport. South Palmyra. Pearl by the sea. A city famous for its sense of humor and winding catacombs where you can get lost or find treasure. Ringing trams with too many people ride along the streets of this city, and no less crowded yellow minibuses, past which expensive cars pass, completely oblivious to the traffic lights, and along the shady street of Krasnye Zor, which descends to the sea, there are two-story houses with turrets and tiled roof. Heat. Summer. And the tired, shaggy and, it seems, the dogs turned gray from the heat, deprived of the happiness of serving man, lie tiredly in the courtyards of the old and gloomy five-story buildings, sticking out their wet tongues.

And at night, the glare of the sun among the waves of sea water is replaced by the mysterious light of the full, but already tending to zero moon and along the lunar path reflected in the sea water, you want to go somewhere there, quite far, into the darkness of the night sky, into the land of dreams.

It is here, in Odessa, and it is in the summer, on hot July days (July 6-8), that another fashion week takes place - Odessa (Odessa Holiday Fashion Week).

Odessa Holiday Fashion Week is an integral part of the Ukrainian Fashion Week (Ukrainian Fashion Week), held for the sixth time. Designers, both from Ukraine and from other countries, among the participants of Odessa Holiday Fashion Week have already been represented by designers from Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Great Britain, and this year participants from Israel and Switzerland have also been added, exhibiting their cruise collections. Here you can see women's and men's collections, baby clothes and collections of precious jewelry.

Venue - Luxury Gallery "Victory Gardens" (Odessa, pl. 10th April).

The participants of Odessa Holiday Fashion Week this year were:

designer Julia AYSINA (Julia AYSINA) - expensive and popular, presented her collection, skillfully balancing on the verge of sexuality and luxury,
the BOROVIK brand, whose summer collection was inspired by the work of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, the collection was dominated by midi and maxi skirts, colors from light pastel tones to bright yellow and black,
as well as the Swiss brand Marc O'Polo, which took part in Odessa Fashion Week for the first time.

Designer Nataliya Anri, who has experience in the international market, presented a collection whose name, although it was Turkish, sounded unambiguously in the translation of the summer and resort - "Sea". The collection itself was filled with tenderness and romance.

Designer Yulia POLISHCHUK (Yulia Polishchuk) - represented England, she herself has Ukrainian roots. As well as the collection from Nataliya Anri, Yulia's collection was not without romantic images. The collection used only natural fabrics and light shades - pale pink, pale blue, pale yellow and white.

Were presented at Odessa Holiday Fashion Week and collections of designers from Russia, for example, the collection of the Russian designer Oleg NAUMOV.

There was also a collection in the spirit of the 1960s from designer Elena GOLETS, as well as a collection of underwear from the Russian brand Emi Vi (designer Emilia Vishnevskaya). Olga Alyonova, the wife of the Ukrainian footballer Alexander Shovkovsky, presented her collection, in whose collection there was an abundance of wide-brimmed hats, dresses and sundresses.

But the Odessa fashion life of these few days was saturated not only with shows, parties were also held within the framework of Odessa Holiday Fashion Week, which this year were supplemented by individual shows by designers. So on July 7, the Maristella Club hosted a party from the media partner of the event called Dress Code Fashion Night with a show from Julia Aysina. And the program of the party, which took place on July 8, included shows by designers Irina Dzhus (winner of the competition for young designers) and Anastasia Ivanova (she presented a collection of swimwear).

In total, within the framework of Odessa Holiday Fashion Week, 25 collections from both Ukrainian (well-known and novice) and foreign designers were shown.