Lilya Litkovskaya, fashion designer from Ukraine

In 2006, Lilya Litkovskaya made her debut at the Ukrainian Fashion Week, acquired a large studio in the house-monument of architecture and began to work in full force on the name brand.

“The word“ vocation ”somehow sounds pathetic, but I never doubted that the designer was my vocation. I can’t imagine myself in any other place,” she says. “I wanted to realize myself, and this was a powerful incentive for of work. Naturally, I had to educate myself. But I love to face difficulties. "

Litkovskaya belongs to the wave of minimalist designers from Ukraine: it can be put on a par with Svetlana Bevza, the duet Kamenskaya and Kononova, Xenia Schneider and a dozen more names for us.

“It’s not easy for me to work in Ukraine. The reasons are quite standard. Light industry has decayed into dust, legislation, customs, inflated prices, paperwork as when importing fabrics and exporting collections. All this increases the cost of clothing, and as a result you cannot provide more loyal price conditions. Another key problem is professionals. I can’t say that professions are endangered, but good cutters and designers with good hands of one, ”the designer estimates the working conditions at home.

Nevertheless, polka-dot dresses, leather trousers and transparent raincoats from the Litkovskaya collections are now sold not only in Ukraine, but also in the Moscow store “Kuznetsky Most, 20” - next to Maison Martin Margiela and Rick Owens. The designer cares not only about collections and business, but also about art: she recently shot a video with director Alexander Kosenko and Ukrainian Elle for the Art Kiev Contemporary forum. Litkovsky’s pragmatic plans - wants to get rid of external sources of irritation and increase the number of stores selling its brand.