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NEZALEZHNI: TOP-6 Ukrainian brands of clothing, footwear and accessories

NEZALEZHNI: TOP-6 Ukrainian brands of clothing, footwear and accessories

Every year new brands of clothes, shoes, and accessories appear in Ukraine. Some disappear from the radar in less than a year, while others manage to conquer not only the Ukrainian but also the world market.

We have collected 6 brands different in style, cut, and age, which are united by one thing - Ukrainian origin. We will tell you about them in more detail.
2011. She is a young designer Ksenia, he is the art director of the design bureau Anton. Together they are the Schneider couple, who decide to sew jeans from used denim. It is how the Ksenia Schnaider brand was born

Schneiders began to create clothing from recycled materials and combine the perfect cut and notes of Eastern European with innovative digital concepts.

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Demi-denims
In 2016, Xenia came up with Demi-denims jeans, assembled from two parts - culottes and skins. It brings the brand worldwide recognition. Bella Hadid, Eleonora Karisi, Dua Lipa became clients of Ksenia Schnaider. Attention to the brand is confirmed by positive reviews on the pages of Vogue Italy, WAD, Grazia France, Style.com
All collections are created by hand in Kyiv and sold in both offline and global online stores.
You can find and try on clothes in the largest cities in the world. It includes Tokyo, New York, London, Seoul, Antwerp, Hong Kong, Copenhagen, Rome, Sydney, Beijing, Kyiv. In total, the brand is represented in 16 countries.
Ksenia Schnaider

Ksenia Schnaider is one of the few Ukrainian brands that promote sustainable fashion in the fashion industry. In 2018 and 2019, the committee of the Ukrainian Fashion Week chose it as the most sustainable brand of the year.

About a third of products produced by the brand are recycled. Every year, the Schneiders recycle up to 7,000 pairs of old jeans to make about 5,000 new types of clothing. On average, 550-700 jeans are processed monthly.

Ksenia Schnaider has three redesigned lines: denim, sports and knitwear, and denim fur technology.

Forbes USA called KSENIASCHNAIDER a supporter of sustainable fashion in Eastern Europe.

The brand specializes in creating multifunctional clothing for women, men, and children, which you can wear both at home and on the streets.

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Sleeper was founded in 2014 by two glossy editors, Kateryna Zubareva and Asya Varetsa.

In just one month since its founding, the brand's pajamas for the city first appeared on the pages of best fashion magazines. The editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia magazine Franco Sozzani named Sleeper the brand of the month.
Clothing production is located in Kyiv and is waste-free. Each thing is created by hand, using natural materials such as linen, silk, viscose.
By 2030, 100% of the brand's fabrics are committed to becoming fully sustainable and using only biodegradable factories.
Sleeper - a representative of the "slow fashion", whose things are designed to serve for years. The mission of the brand is to instill love and the ability to take care of yourself every day.

You can buy collections both online and offline in stores in America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. In total, the brand is represented in 20 countries.

Sleeper clothing has repeatedly appeared in Vogue, BluePrint, Financial Times, Footwear, Tatler, Glamor, and Forbes. Grace Moretz and Zoe Deutsch.
In February 2019, the founders of Sleeper entered the European list of Forbes' 30 Under 30.  

The beginning of the Ruslan Baginskiy brand was 2015 when the designer created the first hats in Lviv. The founder of the brand is the former stylist Ruslan Baginskiy.  is one of the most popular Ukrainian designers now.

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In 2017, the brand was nominated at the Ukrainian Best Fashion Awards, and in 2018-2019 Baginsky won three more victories in the nominations "Best Accessory Designer" and "Breakthrough of the Year."

The debut of the couture collection of Baginsky's hats took place during the haute couture week in Paris in 2019. The second couture collection was presented in September last year.

The team releases four collections a year, constantly improving and expanding the model range. The characteristic feature of the brand is the experiment with traditional forms. All hats are created in the spirit of the times - they are comfortable, utilitarian, trendy, and inspired by the family archives of the designer, vintage fashion shoots, and the heroines of cult films.
In just six years of existence, Ruslan Baginskiy hats have become recognizable around the world. You can buy it in 23 countries and more than 200 cities.
The brand is popular among many world-famous singers, models, and actresses such as Madonna, Bella and Gigi Hadid, Taylor Swift, Pamela Anderson, Miley Cyrus, Natalia Vodyanova, Nicki Gilton, and Irina Sheik.
Baginsky's hats often appear in The New York Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, W Magazine, V Magazine, ELLE, Marie Claire, Glamor, Garage Magazine.

One of the main principles of sustainable brand development is to support local production. Although Ruslan Baginskiy has already become international, every hat is made in Ukraine.
The history of Vita Kin began in 2014 with a collection of embroidered dresses, which The Wall Street Journal called the most popular summer dresses of 2015.

In the same 2015 designer, Vita Kin demonstrated her clothes at the Paris Fashion Week, presenting embroidered shirts as a modern bohemian style. It attracted the attention of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

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The first collections were inspired by Ukrainian heritage and its famous methods and patterns of embroidery. The later designer started to use handicraft techniques developed and preserved for centuries of world culture.
Now brand focuses not on the Ukrainian heritage, but Africa and Asia. The new Vita Kin dresses are a combination of design solutions from different cultures. The cut is inspired by ethnic costumes of the people of North Africa, the colorful patterns - the artisan heritage of the peoples of Central Asia.
Each brand product is made in its workshop in Kyiv. The team pays great attention to the smallest details and spares no effort, time, or resources to achieve the authentic look. It is why production is limited.
Many celebrities and stylish maidens choose Vita Kin dresses. They were spotted on Demi Moore, Dita von Teese, Florence Welch, Queen of the Netherlands Maxim, and even First Ladies of Ukraine - Marina Poroshenko and Elena Zelenskaya.
You can buy brand cloth on the largest world online platforms, and 12 offline stores in the world.

The task of Vita Kin is to create clothes with a real sense of authenticity in a modern context.
Kachorovska was created in 1957 in Zhytomyr and grew from a small family business into mass production with more than a hundred employees.

For more than half a century, Kachorovska worked in the format of a family studio and revived the culture of making shoes to order. More than 40,000 individual orders have been fulfilled during the studio's existence.

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In 2013, the brand released regular shoe collections. In 2015, the first Kachorovska space in the format of hybrid retail appeared. It combined a shop, a studio, and a coffee shop.

Kachorovska is not just a production of ready-made clothes and shoes. There is also an individual tailoring studio, a chain of retail stores in Kyiv and Odesa, an online store with worldwide delivery, and a coffee shop.

Kachorovska is about style, femininity, intelligence, and content.
The brand creates shoes and bags that remain out of time and will be relevant over the years. Kachorovska remains a family affair.
It is developed by Alina Kachorovska (Ocheretyana), her husband Ruslan Ocheretyany, and her mother Olena Kachorovska.

The brand is one of the most popular manufacturers of shoes and accessories in Ukraine. Over the past ten years, the company has produced shoes for many Ukrainian clothing brands, including Litkovskaya, Bevza, Gudu.

 

Kachorovska shoes were on all catwalks and fashion weeks - in New York, Paris, Milan, London, Georgia. Among the brand's collaborations are collections with Tina Karol, the COAT by Katya Silchenko, and illustrator Serhiy Maidukov.

In 2021, the brand was transformed into a fashion-holding Kacho Group. It will work on four projects (Kachorovska and three other brands - Melly, K.Everywear, Kachorovska Cafe). Kacho Group plans to become the biggest fashion holding in the CIS.

Originally from Rivny, the brand of youth accessories is more stubborn from 2015. There are a lot of specialty backpacks for high-priced backpacks, and also for other types of bags.

 

 

The brand of youth accessories first appeared in 2015 in Rivne. Initially, he specialized in the production of backpacks for travel, and later it began concentrated on other types of bags.

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The main principle of the brand is the design justified by the function. New models appear every month with useful functionality, convenient construction, and concise design. The products are made of leather, polyvinyl, and oxford fabric, which provides the backpacks with strength and water resistance.  
The peculiarities of Harvest are that all stages of production and tailoring, starting from the first sketches and ending with the last stitch, are carried out in Ukraine. Harvest has offices in all major Ukrainian cities - Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Dnipro. The brand also plans to open its shop in Odessa.
More than 16,000 Ukrainians have trusted Harvest for over five years. It has become one of the most recognizable brands of backpacks and bags in Ukraine and is one of the ten best Ukrainian manufacturers of this product.
The brand is one of the followers of sustainable fashion in Ukraine. From the very beginning, it abandoned PVC-based fabrics and focused on waste-free production.
An important vector of Harvest's development is the reduction of the use of plastic bags from 7 tons per year to zero.

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