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Photo: Katya Pshechenko collection

Olga Flaimi created a quiet feminine collection – modest length, moderate fit, monochrome with contrast in finishing and decoring.

Svetlana Zozulya showed the office classics with certain freestyle - transparent pantaloons above the leggins, dresses with the second mouth down and men's sets are in the spirit of clerks from the «American tragedy». Thus Svetlana Zozulya declared that she created her brand «Lorem Ipsum» for journalists, PR-managers, advertisers, marketing specialists above which the sword of dress-code doesn't overhang totally.

Julia Dua created collection on the idea of fire: one part of collection is in risky white and red colour scale, and second part – in more harmonious, brown-red. Her decorative ways are linens of triangles or rhombuses which imitate the tongues of flame, and fur of red fox as neckpiece.

Lera Meltzer and Mariana Glinskaya consider that the mix of fur, lace, feather of peacocks, leather, transparent fabrics and expensive silk is absolutely naturally for Odessa, and secondly, that this mixture and is truly a womanish stylishness – they followed carefully, that not a single masculine suit feature can manage to penetrate in collection.

Galeb Al-Maali from the first dress pleasantly impressed by delicate taste, sense of measure, good feeling of proportions and colour scale. He says that this collection is the reanalysis of fashion of XX century; designer aimed to create new appearance on the basis of combination of low waistline of 20-ies, clear silhouettes and extended line of shoulder of 80-ies, and also blistered sleeves of Victorian epoch. Galeb showed just two types of dresses – minimalistic knee-length dresses out of polished wool with contrasting stripes and decorative zippers and long free silhouette out of navy blue and pink silk, grasped on hips by contrasting ribbon.

Artem Klimchuk showed hats with a feather and plastic aircrafts and crows, boa and bags made out of painted in black color garlic, black pointers drawn on models' ankles, necklaces, plastic bags decorated with cut on wrong particles vinyl disks, avant-garde make-up – the punk image turned out fresh and sharp. And let the whole world go back to bourgeoisies, elegance, quiet and correct 70-ies, but Vivienne Westwood, Gareth Pugh and Artem Klimchuk will never afford themselves to be the same as all. Except for T-shirts and shirts with conceptual prints of owls, a designer-beginner showed wrong form of silk dresses and silk knitted fabric with ink spots, complex cut and draped blouses, dresses with inventive cutting with bulky loop. The motto of radical design supporters: what a bright appearance!

Dar'ya Taranenko created the collection of premium class clothing and showed masterly ability to work with fur. The amount of fur was exactly as much as bourgeois style demands. 6-wedge skirts with ruches and mink trimming, a heavy fur flounce on a hem which is gracefully moving in the rhythm of step, and partly associated with the dresses of dancers on dancing parquet. Wide pants Dar'ya combined with silk smocks with short sleeves and mink cuffs, cocktail dresses have free silhouette - classic femininity with features of bourgeoisness and glamour. But a woman wearing Taranenko knows sense of measure and thinly feels a border of bad taste.

Katya Pshechenko's collection «Herbarium» is created in Slavonic folk style – hand-made embroidery, laces and appliqué. Without décor on overcoats, skirts and dresses the textures, silhouettes and forms are absolutely actual and cosmopolitan. However in that case this would be quite another collection. Beige and ivory dresses of easy and free silhouettes Katya grasped on the hem, extended in the area of hips, experimented with plasticity of wool, cashmere, velvet, silk. Pants mostly have a silhouette of riding-breeches due to the stuck out pockets. Light complete sets have floral decor logically of tender crayon tones, black – contrastingly bright. There are a lot of accessories in collection: caps and gloves, hand-made hats, necklaces out of filaments, bead and stone. Without regard to some overload of decor, general appearance is lyric and romantic.