The umbrella of the project including:
1. Digital Platform, launched by the Polish Cultural Institute in London on www.polishfashionstories.com. Featuring works of polish professionals working within fashion, crafts and related fields. Texts highlight the most significant polish fashion shapers and up and coming new designers shaping the polish fashion of tomorrow.
2. CHRYSALIS: Polish Fash
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THE FIRST EVER ANTHOLOGY OF POLISH FASHION DESIGN 1945-2015:
A Work of Art, an elegant box containing an eclectic publication of over 40 individually designed beautiful artworks accompanied by short stories on each of Polish fashion creators, starting with Lola Prusac who designed the first womenswear collection for Hermès, through legendary Hoffland and ending on new emerging designers such as Marta Jakubowska.
3. Exhibition ‘Warsaw Calling’ (February 2015) was a response to the enthusiastic reaction of a group of influential British fashion journalists to Poland’s vibrant fashion scene. The exhibition showed the collaborative nature of fashion: designers working closely with textile, accessories and shoe designers as well as set designers to create the ‘end look’ of their collections. Four labels: Ewa Stepnowska, kaaskas, Joanna Wawrzynczak and Zofia Ufnalewska occupy three spaces, inspired by shop windows and Warsaw’s famous 3D theatre the Fotoplastikon. The exhibition – overseen by Studio Design UK with shoe design by Piniak Shoe and surface design by Justyna Medon – richly mirrors Poland’s contemporary fashion scene.
4. The exhibition WASTE NOT at the Somerset House, West Wing, 17-21 February 2017
WASTE NOT was part of International Fashion Showcase 2017 presented by Mercedes Benz and organised by the British Council, British Fashion Council and Mercedes Benz in association with London Fashion Week. Embracing the “LOCAL/GLOBAL” theme of the IFS 2017, students and graduates from Poznan’s School of Form have produced an exhibition that mixes local traditional Polish crafts with global trends such as up-cycling and slow-living. Curated by Wojciech Dziedzic, Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka and designed by Beton, WASTE NOT features work by the following designers: Agata Birek, Agnieszka Tomczak, Anna Kujawska, Jagoda Fryca, Kasia Kwiatkowska, Michał Wiśniewski, Natasza Rogozińska.
