As the world faces unprecedented times in the wake of the global pandemic, for many it is a time…
(text in Lithuanian) Pavasaris Lietuvoje žada dar neregėtų mados renginių. Vienas jų - uždaras ir jau dabar “elitiniu” vadinamas mados…
Brexit has created a lot of uncertainty in the fashion industry in the UK and outside the UK. Will the…
by Ieva Zu, Founder & Editor, Fashion Bloc Interesting things are happening in the fashion industry. You may still be…
The evolution of fashion is both mesmerising and intriguing. More than just fancy fabrics or comfy trainers being worn by…
Marta Jakubowski London Fashion Week AW18 Catwalk Show ‘Do you know the designer?’ – asks a…
Robert Kalinkin SS13 Advertisement After more than five years since it all started, Lithuanian fashion designer…
They say menswear is dead or is it? With Milan Mens Fashion Week just over, we must say that men's…
What happened in fashion in 2017 and what should we learn from it? A lot of unexpected events happened in…
Caroline-Perino-photo-by-Ezzidin-Alwan On 19th of October Kingston University’s School of Art celebrated 10 years of their MA…
Klaudia Markiewicz Contact presentation at Fashion Week Brooklyn Last week, Polish designer Klaudia Markiewicz with her…
London Fashion Week SS18 has celebrated a grand finale on Tuesday, with the Tommy Hilfiger London Fashion Week celebrity-studded TommyNow…
by Ieva Zu Yesterday I finally dedicated the time and read an exhaustingly lengthy Opinion piece on my favourite fashion…
by Viktorija Martinenaite MBFW Tbilisi poster featuring Situationist Since the launch in 2015 MBFW Tbilisi, each…
This week in the fashion news I’ve discovered some really interesting and provocative stories and I would like to share…
Farfetch.com - one of the Multi-channel retail leaders in the world has invited key fashion and technology players to London’s…
London is home to international designers; this is obvious with the ever growing International Fashion Showcase. Today is the last…
On the 22-24 February 2017, an international selection of emerging fashion brands, fashion entrepreneurs and emerging talents will share a…
The 20th anniversary of Ukrainian Fashion Week FW 17-18 in Kiev just marked a new era for Ukrainian designers. Newcomers…
2017 started with at least three major fashion (and not) celebrities wearing Eastern European designer brands. …
Say Goodbye to the Rose Quartz people, that pale rose full of romance, the favourite of girly girls and flamboyant…
Hooray – it’s 2017! Time for a change, new hopes, new goals… or is it? It is somehow nice to…
Born in 1981 in Soviet Georgia, Vetements designer and Balenciaga’s Art Director Demna Gvasalia was announced a person of the…
It’s almost the end of the year. The last month of the year started with a great fashion conference for…
Bucharest Fashion Week must be the last fashion week on the calendar for SS17, just over a month till the…
On Wednesday we introduced a fashion icon Reda Mickeviciute, a Lithuanian fashion photographer with an inspirational sense of style. Today…
London, Paris and New York might still be crazy about Gosha Rubchinskiy, but he is definitely not the only Russian…
Last month I travelled to Ukraine to explore Eastern European fashion (you can check my adventures in this article). I…
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia is an exciting fashion extravaganza every season uniting a variety of womenswear, menswear and childrenswear designers…
By Evgeniya Ratnikova and Ieva Zu Once a regional Fashion Week, today Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia is an international fashion…
by Viktorija Martinenaite If we look at the emerging fashion scene in Central Europe, Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week Central Europe (!)…
by Ieva Zu This letter was originally sent in support of the 'H&M: End Deathtraps - Make Factories Safe!' letter campaign.…
by Ieva Zu Have you seen the Givenchy SS16 show at New York Fashion Week on 9/11? You might have seen it live,…
A Contemporary fashion brand D.Efect and their Creative Director Egle Ziemyte were busy expanding their European scope. Amsterdam and Milan,…
Meet Diligent Clothes – a team of two ambitious and super creative modern minds that have met, have started their…
by Viktorija Martinenaite Young and beautiful. Ukrainian fashion designer's shows and showrooms have been presented in London, Paris, Milan and New York, she…
We are not trying to hide that we have a major crush on the Lithuanian contemporary designer brand D.efect. The Autumn-Winter…
Dear Freedom, I hope this letter finds you in good health. I hope you’re enjoying the summer and every minute…
Established in 2014 The Knotty Ones (pun intended) is a Lithuanian designer brand ‘for the babes by the babes', as they say.…
by Ieva Zu Waking up to the news of the British referendum last Friday, I felt disappointed, angry, and helpless.…
Robert Kalinkin is one of the first Lithuanian designer brands that have been backed by a Venture Capital firm. It is…
by Ieva Zu I wrote about ‘Eastern Bloc’ aesthetics (or, more accurately, that there is no such thing), I wrote…
By Ieva Zu, Founder of Fashionbloc.co.uk Politics, sometimes, may seem not entirely related to fashion, but voting in EU Referendum should…
Meet Diana Flore, one of the designers that put Romania on a fashion map, it is indeed a hidden fashion gem…
by Ieva Zu Without a question, a 32-year-old Gosha Rubchinskiy (гоша рубчинский) is the most popular Russian fashion designer internationally. As he…
Meet our very good friends from Lithuania – Tadam! Jewellery. A unique fashion jewellery brand of good looking, sweet smelling, gold…
Fashion Bloc: What is your name, how old are you and where are you based? Dzhus: My name is Irina…
by Ieva Zu On 23ed of this month, Britain will vote in a referendum popularly referred to as Brexit, referring…
by Viktorija Martinenaite Many people around the world admire Lithuanian designers because of their expressive, charming and unconventional creativity and…
Unique designer fashion made in Europe – this is what all of the designers represented by Fashion Bloc stand for.…
Text: Viktorija Martinenaite After joining the fashion blogging industry in 2010 on lookbook and tumblr, today, the 21-year-old blogger Agnija Grigule is the…
With fashion weeks travelling around the world this and next month and London Fashion Week sparkling in the city already,…
There was quite a lot of great fashion and beauty, of course, going on around Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tbilisi (MBFWT) that took…
Mercedes-Benz Tbilisi Fashion Week has just ended with international media and famous guests talking about how good is Georgian fashion,…
With the referendum for Britain to exit the European Union approaching, UK media is tireless of pointing fingers, giving facts…
by Ieva Zu I remember meeting Lithuanian fashion designer Julija briefly over eight years ago; it was one of my…
by Ieva Zu #Whomademyclothes? 18-24 April the initiative called Fashion Revolution calls all fashion consumers, designers, manufacturers and distributors to join forces…
y Ieva Zu At 32, I am not a fashion model (although tried my best). Playing fashion, though, is always…
by Ieva Zu ‘Fashion comes from Eastern Europe’ - the newest trend that has been picked up by major fashion…
Text: Viktorija Martinenaite Meet Laura Theis, a Lithuanian-born designer who made knitwear fashionable again. Laura graduated from London Central Saint Martins and…
Text: Laura Gedvilaite The annual Lithuanian fashion festival "Fashion Infection" took place in Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre on 18-19 of March. Among…
by Ieva Zu Recently I read a nicely written fashion review on The Guardian of the Maison Margiela’s menswear collection…
by Ieva Zu This year International Fashion Showcase (IFS) at London Fashion Week, discovering and promoting young fashion talents from…
London Fashion Week will be welcoming its 5th season of International Fashion Showcase, IFS16 ,this month. Sommerset House will become…
There are times when even the best dresser would forget to take care of certain things and end up making…
Kazakhstan-born, Russian-based couturier and street-style star Ulyana Sergeenko showed her Haute Couture SS16 luxurious collection in Paris on Wednesday. It…
By Viktorija Martinenaite Julija, a Lithuanian-born beauty, began her career as a model at the age of 14. She is…
Anton Belinskiy, one of the pioneering contemporary Ukrainian designers, is on the news once again. We introduced Belinskiyalongside Anna K as…
Since the early days of her childhood Lithuanian Viktorija Ceplike recall herself being involved in her family business. Back then,…
If you are good with Eastern European names, you can always spot Eastern European fashion models amongst the Top 50/…
French Christian Dior, Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier; Italian Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli, Atelier Versace; Lebanese Ellie Saab and Zuhair Murad –…
Meet Gerda, a 26-year-old business owner/designer of the Bond’esque like swimwear brand Makara. Besides running a successful swimwear and surfwear brand she is…
Do you know any Serbian fashion designers? Yes you do! Roksanda Ilincic is a Serbian chic. Who else is Serbian?…
Fashion is an ever-changing game with new players coming in, old players leaving it, or all playing together trying to…
Łódź (yes, that is exactly how it’s spelled) is the third largest city in Poland with a population of 700.000+…
by Ieva Zu When I started my research of Eastern European fashion industry over three years ago Ukrainian fashion week…
by Ieva Zu This is not going to be an ordinary press release; potentially breaking some PR rules (but following…
Ramune Piekautaite is one of the best known designers in Lithuania. Her own name fashion house has been a leading name…
It’s over – fashion crowd left for another city. London is fashion week no more. And it was spectacular –…
Some Fashion Weeks around Europe take place even before the major four (NY, London, Milan, and Paris) hit the catwalks.…
What do you get when you put on a dress, a lipstick, and cycle to the afterwork party hosted by…
by Ieva Zu I have started my collaboration with The Huffington Post today. I will be blogging about fashion, arts…
by Ieva Zu The Fashion Bloc poster on the left is not an ordinary commercial. First of all, you can…
Text: Mariam Bezhuashvili @FashionGalactic Georgian based fashion designer, Lela Eloshvili, whose clothes speak volumes of her sense of fashion, creativity…
Georgia is a transcontinental country based on the verge of Europe and Asia. Exotic and attractive, rich in nature and…
by Ieva Zu If I was featured on ‘Stylist’ column Work/Life this is how it would look like WORK LIFE:…
As the world faces unprecedented times in the wake of the global pandemic, for many it is a time…
(text in Lithuanian) Pavasaris Lietuvoje žada dar neregėtų mados renginių. Vienas jų - uždaras ir jau dabar “elitiniu” vadinamas mados…
Brexit has created a lot of uncertainty in the fashion industry in the UK and outside the UK. Will the…
by Ieva Zu, Founder & Editor, Fashion Bloc Interesting things are happening in the fashion industry. You may still be…