Yuliya Babich (Ukraine/Poland)Variations on a Bag (2010)Fashion
Yuliya Babich – born in 1981 in Sumy in Ukraine. For a few years she has been living and creating in Szczecin. A fashion designer, a winner of the Gryf Fashion Show contest for young designers, a graduate from the Higher School of Applied Arts in Poznan and the Music School n Sumy. Her works can be purchased i.a. in Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine and a few Polish cities (i.a. Warsaw, Szczecin, Wroclaw). Her pieces are characteristic due to the precision they have been created with, they are very elaborated and precise. They are outstanding due to their modern design and the uniqueness of form. The latest work of the designer is called Variations on a Bag. The collection is the result of several years of work, it was growing up in the mind of the artist for a long time. It is a well-thought-out concept which has its beginning, climax and end. The collection consists of several models of female outfits, kept in the Glamour convention, rich in constructions, form and accessories. It is a story about a Bag, a variation on its form. The structural element of the bag is repeating in each outfit in a certain way. It starts from the one in the shape of a big bag which is cuddling the model’s silhouette, through the variations on different elements: belts, clasps or pockets, up to the culminating end – a woman emerging from the great cluster of bags of different sizes. The collection was made out of homogeneous materials in different shades of light colours: ecru and vanilla. A pastel story of formal materials with different facture: mat and glimmer. It is made with precision and all the details are thought through. The whole collection is amply decorated with the elements in gold. There are clasps, fasteners and other accents of metal haberdashery. The designer's idea was to join the values which theoretically do not match. Beautiful, homogeneous formal cloth was juxtaposed with sporty, slightly military elements of the leading Bag motif. This connection creates big, slightly exaggerated structural forms, that are feminine and smart. The whole collection is crowned with rich golden ornamentation. |
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