BRANKOPOPOVICBLOG: 11th edition FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland

From 22 - 26 October Łódź, the third-largest city in Poland hosted it's 11th edition of FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland. At first sight Łódź is an unusual place as a fashion destination but as a former heart of the Polish fashion industry and the remains of industrial heritage the city is a perfect backdrop for new fashion generation.
In the last 5 years FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland has increasingly grown and paved ways to new generation of designers and now that I attended for the fifth time this is still what I like about this event. There is a great energy and drive from the new designers and they are actually the ones that steal the show.
The stage for opening show of the 11th edition of FashionPhilosophy Fashion Week Poland was in the hands of the graduates from the Fashion department of Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Graduation Gala included collection by designers such as Damian Konieczny, Katarzyna Wirzewska, Agnieszka Zarzycka and duo Sowik Matyga and design collective HANGER.

FASHIONCLASH Festival designer, Baiba Ladiga
image by Łukasz Szaląg

The fashion week schedule is divided in Studio shows, Off Out Of Schedule and Designer Avenue. What I like about FPFWP is that there is more to see and do next to the shows such as the exhibition of young fashion photographers, fashion film programme and showrooms. The showroom is getting better each time and clearly this edition with a great selection and quality of brands and shops displayed. To name a few: Fashion Dealers, Jaroslaw Ewert, NON, ROH'AN, Nanko, Odio & Jakub Pieczarkowski, Marthu, ID.FOR.FUN, Piotr HANGER and more.

Marcel, Philippe & Noémie

Coming back to the runway shows I was of course very proud that FASHIONCLASH Festival 2014 designer Baiba Ladia has been selected to show her collection. But she was not the only FASHIONCLASH designer, promising talent Grzegorz Marcisz from the brand ZWYRD presented again a very strong collection in the Off Out Of Schedule programma. Off Out of Schedule offered more good collection such as The Puppies, Paulina Ptashnik and the Macademian Girl Award winner Kas Kryst. For stealing the show at Designer Avenue we can blame the duo Odio and Jakub Pieczarkowski, who's show was one of the best this edition. Their work is like a cocktail of Polish avant-garde and London vibe.
Furthermore there where more interesting collections on the runway display coming from Bajer Ola - Bola, Claudia Danna, Aleks Kurkowski, Nuno Gama, Dawid Tomaszewski and Nah-Nu Katarzyna Skorek.

To conclude this I have to thank the FPFWP team for their hospitality, partnership and friendship. It is always such a pleasure to be guest at this wonderful event.

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