Cracow Fashion Week 2018
This year’s competition, organized by SAPU, was won by the Bylevskay twins with their menswear collection “Not Me”, created in the spirit of recycling and No Waste. The collection offered an intelligent play on trends and deconstruction and carried a strong intellectual undertone, drawing inspiration from plastic surgeries and their impact on the concept of identity.
The event opened the 9th edition of Cracow Fashion Week, organized by SAPU in partnership with the City of Kraków. The main partners were Galeria Kazimierz and Volvo Wadowscy.
The jury included experts and personalities from the global fashion scene, such as Marcellous L. Jones, Nawie Kuiper, Bin Chen, Katarzyna Sokołowska, Ilona Majer, and Rafał Michalak (MMC).
Highlights
Cracow Fashion Week 2018 concluded with the victory of the Bylevskay sisters, whose collection “Not Me” addressed identity and recycling, earning the title of Best Collection at the Cracow Fashion Awards.
Event details
Cracow Fashion Week opens with the SAPU Graduation Show – Cracow Fashion Awards (CFA), the most prestigious graduation fashion show in Poland and a competition for SAPU graduates. For years, the show has continuously promoted young talents in fashion design.
Each year, CFA attracts representatives from leading media as well as well-known figures from Polish and international fashion and art, who award prestigious prizes to graduates — including internships abroad and in Poland, opportunities to present collections in London, Moscow, Lviv, Riga, Minsk, free booths at Fashion Week Poland, and features in influential fashion magazines.
Thanks to the SAPU graduation show and the intensive promotion of young designers, Kraków has ranked 23rd among the world’s fashion capitals, surpassing cities such as Frankfurt, Vienna, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro. The show takes place in the exclusive spaces of the ICE Kraków Congress Centre.