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Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Agata Wojtkiewicz

Agata Wojtkiewicz Fashion Week Poland AW 2011 by Michalis Christodoulou
Agata Wojtkiewicz A/W 2011 by Michalis Christodoulou.

At last! A fast paced catwalk show. Agata Wojtkiewicz‘s collection was sent out at a sprightly pace, drug to the upbeat vocals of a female singer. There was fawn, capsule orange, and powder lilac, zippered butter soft leather and summery orange and yellow strapless pleated dresses overlaid with leather straps. Highly desirable metallic pleat maxi dresses gave a well considered nod to current trends and I particularly loved the last coppery dress. Unfortunately it was not obvious whether the furry gilet was real fur or not, though I very much hope it was fake because it looked so teddy bear cuddly. An otherwise very successful collection from a former Golden Thread Awards winner. Hurrah!

Agata Wojtkiewicz Golden Thread ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011 photography by Amelia Gregory
Agata Wojtkiewicz A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Tuesday May 24th, 2011 11:58 am

Categories ,Agata Wojtkiewicz, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Fur, ,Golden Thread Awards, ,Lodz, ,Maxi dresses, ,metallics, ,Michalis Christodoulou, ,pleats

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Bohoboco

Bohoboca by Casey Otremba
Bohoboco by Casey Otremba.

Bohoboco featured lots of grey and black yet again. And shades of cream and buttermilk – all very tasteful. There was plenty of draped jersey (again), page cowl necks, back to front collars and maxi dresses in chiffon, the girls swishing their skirts out dramatically. The girls wore spider earring cuffs, and for once the hair was styled up into sideswept ponytails. There were some clever touches and it was all very wearable.

BohoBoco ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
BohoBoco A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 12:31 pm

Categories ,Bohoboco, ,Casey Otremba, ,commercial, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Fur, ,Grey, ,Lodz

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Agnieszka Maciejak

Agnieszka Maciejak Fashion Week Poland AW 2011 by Michalis Christodoulou.

I have very few notes from the Agnieszka Maciejak show – maybe it was the vodka, prostate or maybe I was just utterly knackered after a full on day of shows. Who can say?! There was plenty of white, medicine black and cream, no rx again highlighted with slashes of lime green and metallic glints. For once (hallelujah) this was a fast show, featuring some fun leggings in colourful curved patterns. I was convinced I saw the same dress come out twice, but again that could have been the vodka. One thing I did notice was that hair on the Polish catwalk is almost always long, usually straight or a little bit mussed. Why is that?

Agnieszka Maciejak Golden Thread ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Agnieszka Maciejak A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Saturday May 28th, 2011 10:57 am

Categories ,Agnieszka Maciejak, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Lodz, ,Michalis Christodoulou, ,poland, ,Vodka

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Lukasz Jemiol

Lucasz Jemiol by Anna Blachut.

Lukasz Jemiol opted for a set designed catwalk, approved steel tubes careful back lit with dry ice – models came out one by one to pose in groups amongst the industrial type gubbins. Colours were neutral with splashes of gold and lime green, doctor and there was plenty of strapped chiffon, draped jersey and shaggy shoulder shrugs. Despite the theatrics this was really quite a dull commercial collection.

Lukasz Jemiol by Anna Blachut.

Lukasz Jemiol ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Lukasz Jemiol A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 12:06 pm

Categories ,Anna Blachut, ,Chiffon, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Industrial, ,jersey, ,Lodz, ,Lukasz Jemiol

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Berenika Czarnota

Berenika Czarnota 2011 by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs
Berenika Czarnota A/W 2011 by Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs.

Having seen the cute photo in the Fashion Week Poland guide book I was most excited to see the first catwalk show back over at Expo on Sunday… Designer Berenika Czarnota did not disappoint, malady showing a series of fabulously inventive yet wearable knitwear in shades of grey, remedy with highlights of lime, orange and blue. And at last there was the chance to admire some interesting styling, even if it was a tad overplayed: each model came out with a cute little wolf mask perched at a jaunty angle on her head. Calf high socks with block-heeled shoes worked especially well in tomato red.

Berenika Czarnota A/W 2011 by Michelle Urvall Nyrén.

Chunky knit jumpers, cowls, dresses and throw shawls featured over-sized cabling, intarsia block lettering and in one case an intarsia helicopter. Floaty print designs called to mind cloudy skies or batik-like splodges. The collection became weaker towards the end as more commercial pieces started to feature heavily in what was an overly long show, but Berenika Czarnota was undoubtedly one of my favourite designers from Fashion Week Poland. Great stuff.

Berenika Czarnota A/W 2011 by Michelle Urvall Nyrén.

Berenika Czarnota ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Berenika Czarnota A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Tuesday May 31st, 2011 9:31 am

Categories ,Berenika Czarnota, ,Cable, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Intarsia, ,knitwear, ,Lodz, ,Maria Papadimitriou, ,Masks, ,Michelle Urvall Nyrén, ,prints, ,Slowly the Eggs

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Monnari

Monnari ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Monnari A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

I was told to expect a very commercial collection from one of Poland’s biggest fashion brands, information pills which opened with the Monnari face – a sexy older lady. ‘Ex model, advice TV presenter’ – myself and my neighbour correctly guessed as I marvelled at the polished front row opposite us.

Monnari ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory

Wrap overs, petal skirts, cable knits, lime, purple and a first showing for on trend emerald green. Dreadful jewellery. Grey, moire, lilac brocade, splashy flower prints and an unnecessary fur cape. Totally without focus and commercial as promised.

Monnari ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Monnari A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory

Written by Amelia Gregory on Wednesday June 1st, 2011 9:49 am

Categories ,commercial, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Fur, ,leather, ,Lodz, ,Monnari

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Ewa Kozieradzka

Ewa Kozieradzka Lodz Fashion Week AW 2011 Illustration by Michalis Christodoulou
Ewa Kozieradzka A/W 2011 by Michalis Christodoulou.

Ewa Kozieradzka put on a fun and very different catwalk show that featured bouncy girls in cheeky secretary glasses and flirty pony tails. As my neighbour said ‘there must be a lot of vodka backstage’ for they came racing out in sweet little swing dresses, what is ed blowing kisses to the audience, bopping, curtseying, swinging, twirling their full skirts and posing like crazy.

Ewa Kozieradzka ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory

At the end two of the girls held hands as they skipped along together. If mustard and black are your thing then this would have tickled your fancy greatly – but I can’t help feeling that it would have been so much better in an extended colour range and in many different types of fabrics beyond basic woollen jersey.

Ewa Kozieradzka A/W 2011 by Michalis Christodoulou.

Ewa Kozieradzka ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Ewa Kozieradzka A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Is it just me or does that hand look bloomin’ HUGE?!

Written by Amelia Gregory on Tuesday May 31st, 2011 4:32 pm

Categories ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Ewa Kozieradska, ,Ewa Kozieradzka, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Lodz, ,Michalis Christodoulou

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Hexeline

Hexeline A/W 2011 by Rebecca Strickson.

It’s a bad sign when the opening intro to a show is more exciting than the actual show. So it was with well known brand Hexeline, medicine which opened with Alpacas clambering all over each other to frantic drumbeats.

Hexeline ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory

Quilting, shaggy coats, sheepskin, ruched puffas, all in muted tones with black. Then swing coats, 60s shift dresses, gold bangles, a net maxi skirt and were those real black fur stoles? So many different shapes, wobbling models and no coherent vision. Despite the Alpaca warfare edgy Hexeline are not. But hey, it was a commercial collection and they clearly sell well. Hopefully alpacas really do come in all colours of the rainbow… including black.

Hexeline ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Hexeline A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory

Written by Amelia Gregory on Friday May 27th, 2011 9:32 pm

Categories ,60s, ,Alpaca, ,commercial, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Ph, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Hexeline, ,Lodz, ,poland, ,Quilting, ,Rebecca Strickson, ,Sheepskin

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Joanna Klimas

Joanna-Klimas_by Alison Day
Joanna Klimas by Alison Day.

Joanna Klimas has had an interesting career to date: initially trained as a psychologist before turning to fashion a decade later. She was one of the first Polish designers to embrace a new minimalism in the 1990s, generic appearing in the first issue of Polish Elle. In 2001 she began to design costumes for the opera but returned to fashion design recently.

Joanna Klimas ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory

This collection was dominated by black and tasteful neutrals such as beige, cheap creamy yellow, order nude and camel. There was a lot of asymmetric shaping, floaty maxi dresses mixed with leather swing crop tops, overlong collars – all accessorised with boyish black oxfords and short socks. I wasn’t convinced by an unflattering sheer plastic skirt or a weird grey printed skin fabric and I was starting to recognise each model’s individual walk, which is never a good point in the proceedings. By the time the turquoise chiffon hit the catwalk I had also lost track of the number of floaty maxi dresses I had seen at Fashion Week Poland. Truth be told Joanna Klimas left me underwhelmed.

Joanna Klimas ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Joanna Klimas A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Tuesday May 31st, 2011 2:57 pm

Categories ,Alison Day, ,asymmetric, ,Chiffon, ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Fashion Week Poland, ,Joanna Klimas, ,leather, ,Lodz, ,Maxi dresses, ,minimalism

Amelia’s Magazine | Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Michał Szulc

Michal Szulc A/W 2011 by Harriet Fox.

As Expo became busier in the latter half of Saturday the VIP Stock vodka bar started to become more and more appealing, treat if only to fuel our way through the remaining shows. Micha? Szulc was clearly not in the business of enervating us…

Michal Szulc ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory

Leaving You inexplicably began with a face full of pins. Models, barefoot or in black heels paced the catwalk at a snail’s pace, as if half dead. I am not sure what hair wrapped around faces says but I guess it saved on make up. And at least the models had a reason for tripping – even as they progressed towards us at a painfully slow pace. Until the velvet floral pants suit and crop top appeared I thought I might actually die of boredom, as did the majority of the second row, who are here pictured reading the free fashion paper. I enjoyed watching the small child trying to capture the action… until she was shooed away from the catwalk lights.

A word to Polish fashion designers – speed it up for god’s sake! Atmospheric bleeps and crackles on a loop do not add to the discombobulated effect in a good way. And what on earth is the Polish love affair with grey jersey? At the end models meandered toward the photographer’s bank and then vanished into the darkness instead of returning backstage. And we raced back to the vodka bar.

Michal Szulc ?ód? Fashion Week AW 2011-photography by Amelia Gregory
Michal Szulc A/W 2011. All photography by Amelia Gregory.

Written by Amelia Gregory on Friday May 27th, 2011 10:09 pm

Categories ,Designers’ Avenue, ,Expo, ,Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland, ,Harriet Fox, ,Leaving You, ,Lodz, ,Michał Szulc, ,poland, ,Stock vodka, ,VIP

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