Ukrainian Fashion Week FW26-27 in Kyiv how Ukrainian fashion shapes the future during wartime
Ukrainian Fashion Week FW26-27 returns to Kyiv with a program that sounds not like a social event, but like a clear statement: Ukrainian fashion does not stop, even when reality brings new challenges every day. From February 5 to 8, 2026, the capital will host a season dedicated to sustainability and innovation, and this wording here is not for a catchy headline. It is about a way to survive, to work, to create meaning, and to remain visible in Ukraine and in the world. Ukrainian Fashion Week matters not only as a runway. It is an institution that represents the Ukrainian fashion industry, develops a professional ecosystem, and strengthens cultural diplomacy. In a country living through a full-scale war, such platforms serve not only as a “showcase”, but also as an environment where partnerships emerge, new names appear, professional continuity is formed, and the community is preserved.
The FW26-27 season is constructed as a story of continuity and development at the same time. The official program features resident brands of Ukrainian Fashion Week that have participated since the very first season in 1997, alongside designers who debuted last September within the New Names program, as well as finalists of the Look into the Future competition. This structure of the program matters it shows that Ukrainian fashion stands not on isolated successes, but on a system where experience and the new wave work together. The key theme of the season is a sustainable and innovative approach in the work of Ukrainian designers. It is read not as a trend for “eco”, but as real practice: responsible production, new technologies, innovative materials, and solutions that respond to global challenges from environmental to social. This position in the FW26-27 season is articulated by the co-founder and CEO of Ukrainian Fashion Week, Iryna Danylevska, emphasizing that even today Ukrainian designers create not just clothing they shape a vision of the future, where creativity is combined with responsibility.
A separate highlight of the season will be the exhibition Art of Fashion: Sustainable Innovations within the walls of the Mystetskyi Arsenal. This is an important emphasis, because it is not about a “show for the sake of a show”, but about demonstrating concrete methods and solutions behind the words “sustainability” and “innovation”. The project features Ukrainian brands BEVZA, J’AMEMME, KSENIASCHNAIDER, LITKOVSKA, NADYA DZYAK, OMELIA, PLNGNS, TG Botanical, UPSLOWUSE, as well as the fashion school UFEG. They will present looks created using upcycling, recycling, zero-waste production, responsible material practices, and innovative technologies. Among the exhibited works is a look by NADYA DZYAK, created within Kering S|STYLE – DENIM LAB, an initiative supported by the Material Innovation Lab of Kering under the curatorship of Georgia Cantorini.
But this UFW season speaks not only about the industry it speaks directly about people. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the charitable component has become an integral part of Ukrainian Fashion Week, and FW26-27 continues this line. The team develops the Faces of Heroes initiative, aimed at supporting military personnel with mine-explosive facial injuries. Designers and guests of Fashion Week will have the opportunity to support the initiative, and invitations to events can be obtained through a charitable donation. The project is implemented in cooperation with the YANKO Charitable Foundation within the framework of a signed Memorandum. At the same time, within Ukrainian Fashion Week FW26-27, the Defenders’ Portrait Gallery will be presented a project dedicated to representatives of the fashion industry who have taken up the defense of Ukraine. This is the fourth season of the initiative, implemented in cooperation with ready2wear.agency, and the principle itself is important here: the fashion industry does not distance itself from the war, but records the presence of its people in this reality – with dignity, publicly, without simplifications.
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Another strong focus of the season is support for young talents. The largest fashion retailer INTERTOP Ukraine, together with Ukrainian Fashion Week, continues the The Culture of Design project. Within it, a young designer will receive a 150,000 hryvnia prize and, equally important, practical experience in creating a collection that will be presented in major retail. The winner will be announced on February 7 as part of the official program. This is a case where support for emerging names goes beyond words it has clear financial and professional backing.
It is also important who supports the season at the partner level. Partners of Ukrainian Fashion Week FW26-27 include Kronenbourg 1664 as sponsor, Visa | PrivatBank as official partner, TRESemmé as official partner, Watsons retail chain as partner and backstage partner, Nelly De Vuyst, BAO&NAM, Health and Food, RIEL construction company, and YANKO Production as technical support of UFW. For the industry, this is not a “greeting list”, but a marker of resource presence because any large-scale event requires stable organization and concrete capabilities, not just loud names.
Ukrainian Fashion Week FW26-27 in Kyiv is a season where fashion speaks the language of reality: about production, materials, technologies, responsibility, war, support, and about a future that is not postponed “for later”. It is an attempt to show the world Ukrainian cases not as an exception, but as a new norm: when creativity and professionalism are held together by internal discipline and community.
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