Fashion Workshops are the core element of the Festival.
Art & Fashion Workshops - everyday from 12 to 6 pm (12-21 October)
Open workshops last 10 days and cover 5 fields that relate to fashion: fashion design, fashion illustration, fashion photography, jewellery design and fashion writing.
This is the core element of the Festival.
Fashion Design - 8 participants
Lecturer: Krystof Stróżyna
Obsession is the leitmotiv of Krystof’s workshops. Working knowledge of cut & sew operations is not as essential as an original idea and ability to express oneself. The only rule one must follow is to remember that every woman and man wants to look and feel chic.
Krystof (Krzysztof) Stróżyna
graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 2007. He won Harrods Design Award for his thesis, and his collections have been shown in numerous titles: Pani, Elle, Elle US, Elle UK, Twój Styl, A4, British Vogue, Vogue Russia, Vogue Italy, Wonderland… Strozyna’s collections are distinguished by exceptional cut and attention to detail.
A.2 Fashion Drawing - 8 participants
Lecturer: Tomek Sadurski
The workshops are for everyone willing to understand the fashion illustration and ready to face new challenges. Addressed to fashion hotheads & young graphics, they aim to select future fashion illustrators.
Tomek Sadurski
is a young, Berlin based fashion illustrator. His atelier is located in an old chocolate factory in the gallery district Mitte. He draws since he was a child; studied stage & costume design at the Academy of Art in Munich, after graduating the Munich School for Fashion & Graphic Design . He was awarded winner for his final fashion show at the fashion school. After graduation he taught drawing at the AMD Academy for Fashion Design Munich & lectured fashion illustrating at the Art University in Berlin.He is not only an illustrator but also a recognised graphic designer, working with Vodafone, Ford, Audi, VW, Mitsubishi and Hyundai; author of the logo for the Polish Expo Pavilion 2008 in Saragossa. His prints decorated the porcelain of Villeroy&Boch and his illustrations frequently appeared in the men's collections by H&M. Tomek cooperated with international magazines like Vanity Fair, Park Avenue, TUSH, Elle Girl, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Twój Styl, Fashion Magazine and many others. He´s also the author of the illustrations for a bestseller „Schwerelos” by Ildiko von Kuerthy.
A.3 Fashion Writing - 8 participants
Lecturers: Hania Rydlewska, Marcin Różyc
The idea behind the workshops is to search for a new way and a new language to write about fashion and to interpret it. In order to learn it, we have to know how to look selectively & wisely. This year, the participants are going to work on the project of a Festival magazine.
Hanna Rydlewska
Editor-in-chief of magazine Exklusiv; hosts a program Hanibal on culture, fashion and style on Chilli Zet radio; one of the experts working on the opening of a faculty of fashion design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Marcin Różyc
Chief of the fashion department at Exklusiv and a fashion journalist; cooperated with magazine Elle, VH1 and Korczynski Polish Concept Store in Paris; a curator of exhibitions and projects merging art and fashion.
A.4 Fashion Jewellery- 6 participants
Lecturer: Anna Orska
The participants will work on the jewellery projects inspired by the newest trends of the Swarovski brand, learning the techniques and the ways to express themselves.
Anna Orska
is a jewellery designer, for the last 10 years working with the biggest jewellery producer in Poland. She has designed a few thousands patterns for various brands, also for the foreign ones; works as a lecturer at a several schools in the country. She has her own brand called ORSKA; through unconventional & limited designs she merges world of fashion with the finest art.
A.5 Fashion Photography - 8 participants
Lecturer: Kuba Dąbrowski
The idea of the workshops is not to learn how to work with the equipment, which lights one should use nor how to retouch a photo; everyone can read on those in the Internet. Fashion Photography was created to learn how to talk on fashion photography. The participants will look at them as a part of a greater whole – a fragment of a visual or social culture, marketing communication & finally as the works of art. At the same time one picture may be both a masterpiece or simply a trash – its value depends on how we describe it.
Kuba Dąbrowski
was born in 1980 in Bialystok; graduated in sociology at the University of Crocow and photography in Czech Opava. As a photographer he interchangeably works in Afghanistan and takes photos of Chanel make-ups. He cooperates with „Polityka“, „Exclusiv“, „Przekrój“, „PIG“ and a few other magazines. He also takes his own pics and short movies, exhibited in various galleries in Poland (CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Bunkier Sztuki, Arsenał) and abroad (Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, Bucharest). He published a book „Western“; editor of a column on a history of fashion in „Przekrój“.
