FEERIC FASHION WEEK – THE 15TH EDITION

European students wowed on the first day of solo shows at Feeric Fashion Week

 

Feeric Fashion Week kicked off the first day of individual fashion presentations within the Feeric Hub, a program that aims to revitalize the importance of fashion education by providing students around the world with a platform to launch into global fashion. Ana Farîma opened the Feeric Venue presentation series at Cine Gold with the “Metamorphosis” collection, a collection about the concept of human transformation throughout life. Then, Camelia Ienciu from the Faculty of Arts in Oradea presented the pieces of a collection inspired by Ricardo Bofill’s famous architectural work, Muralla Roja, and the last presentation was a collective one, by students from New Bulgarian University.

 

 

 

On the external stairs of the Promenada Mall, in a geometric setting close to perfection, the students of the Faculty of Arts and Design of the Western University of Timișoara presented a group collection representing an eclectic selection of creations extracted from the undergraduate and dissertation projects of fashion design graduates. The students’ collections tackled various topics, current in fashion and contemporary society, with a sustainable substrate: from the psychological and emotional necessity of belonging, to the importance of choices, the elevation of a loved one who has passed away, the importance of pure moments as an impact on the present, the integration of ecofeminist moments in everyday clothing, female power and vulnerability, up to the satire of an unlucky day.

 

 

The industrial decor of the hall at Festival Lake proved perfect for the two presentations held there. The two winning students of the Idea Moda competition launched by New Bulgarian University presented the winning works, they are Teodora Chifutis and Annie Hadzhieva.

 

 

Then, Sophia Katsimicha, representing Athens Fashion Club, delighted the audience with a collection inspired by a hybrid between the designer’s search for individuality through dystopian aesthetics, tradition and a slow approach to creating in an era of industrialization. The collection is deeply driven by texture, fabric, color, detail and silhouette, capturing an aura of simplicity and thoughtful sensibility.

 

 

The last presentation of the day brought the guests of the fashion week from Sibiu to the Prodial sorting station in Tălmaciu, where it was the turn of the students of the University of Arts in Belgrade to present their works from their years of study. The collection titled ’24’ explores the intersection of fashion and the performing arts, embodying avant-garde characteristics – challenging existing structures, breaking norms and embracing open and non-committal forms. The “24” in the collection symbolizes a personal connection, as it reflects the designer’s years at the time of his creative beginning – maturing, exploring personal desires, fears, dreams and values, and undergoing internal transformations during this phase of life.

 

 

The second day of Feeric Fashion Week started with presentations in the Feeric Venue, with students from the University of Krakow and the International Balkan University. 

 

Then Promenada Sibiu returned with a new edition of the Synergia collection, presented in an atypical space, in the above-ground parking of the mall. Synergia returns to the attention of the public in Sibiu through an unique collection that has as a piece of resistance the classic sweatshirt, reinterpreted and presented in the form of a mini-collection comprising 7 single outfits. The designer eliminates the conventional and classic structure of a sweatshirt and reconstructs using asymmetrical cutouts, exaggerated proportions that exceed the limits of the design so as to reach an unique harmony between the body volume and the clothing product. 

 

In the afternoon Hooldra and Alexandru Fediuc from the University of Arts in Iași presented two new collections at Festival Lake and in the evening, Feeric Fashion Week guests arrived at Colț de Rai for an equestrian presentation, where thoroughbred horses intersected with the pieces of the collection made by the University of Arts and Design in Cluj Napoca.

 

 

On the last day of the fashion shows, the students from UNARTE Bucharest presented the largest collective collection, of 40 pieces, in the geometric setting of the Boromir factory. 

 

In the afternoon, we returned to the past, to the Warp of Times. The event was a manifest journey, in the footsteps of the textile heritage of Șara Făgărașilor and took place at Cine Gold Sibiu. The last individual presentation of this edition took place on the pedestrian walkway that connects the courtyard of the Brukenthal Museum to the Împaratul Romanilor hotel.  The public saw here the collective collection made by the students of the UFEG Faculty in Ukraine. 

 

 

As every year, the Feeric Gala drew the curtain on Feeric Fashion Week. Huet Square hosted the collections signed by Georgia Chioni from Athens Fashion Club, Kimono & Me, La blouse Roumaine, Bushra Al Hajjar, and the students of the Faculty of Textile Technology of the University of Zagreb and the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Chisinau. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feeric Fashion Week is an event organized by the Mitichi Foundation and co-financed by the Sibiu City Hall. Main partners: Ford Sibiu and Promenada Sibiu.