28th Ukrainian Fashion Week: Astounding Opportunity for International Buyers

KYIV, Ukraine, March 23, 2011 - The Ukrainian Fashion week has held its 28th season on March
16-21, 2011, attracting world-renowned fashion industry representatives,
including Ronald Denis, Alessandra Dainelli, and Renata Fontanelli. Almost
25,000 guests - fashion experts, buyers, designers' clients, and media
representatives - enjoyed the presentation of autumn-winter '2011-2012
pret-a-porter collections by 50 designer brands including L.P. by Poustovit,
Zalevskiy, Victoria Gres, NotaBene&Karavay, Bevza, Zinaida Likhacheva, Julia
Aysina, Litkovskaya and others.

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Every year the Ukrainian Fashion Week draws interest of many
international fashion experts, buyers and celebrities. This year's
event attracted a real constellation of special guests, including: Russian
Glamour chief-editor Alla Belyakova, Italian fashion consultant and one of
the world's top-10 influential buyers Alessandra Dainelli, fashion-editor of
the Italian La Repubblica, Renata Fontanelli, Global Fashion Management (GFM)
creator and famed fashion consultant Ronald Denis.

The event was also attended by Dutch fashion consultant Li
Edelkoort, French super model DjiDieng, Italian fashion expert and Maas
Markets partner Corrado Manaresi, President of Rakas Ltd. ArisRakas,Russian
vogue.ru blogger Vitaly Kozak, Paris Gallery representative David Cheungand
the owners of Belgian concept store "Ra" Anna Kushnerova and RomainBrau.

This year's UFW international program has been headed by
Italian fashion manager and Maas Markets owner Maurizio Aschero, who joined
the UFW as a head of its international development department.

The Ukrainian Fashion Week aims at promotion of Ukrainian
designers worldwide. "Ukrainian designers, whoremain faithful to creativity,
are very close to become commercially successful. Another important feature
of the event is the large number of charity and social projects that are
developing within UFW," said Volodymyr Nechyporuk, the UFW General Producer.

In addition to the catwalk shows,the UFW traditionally hostsspecial
events for its guests. One of this year's features has been the lavish
exhibition "From Gothic to Modern. The History of European Fashion,"
dedicated to the landmarks of the European fashion development of the
15th-19th centuries.

The Ukrainian Fashion Week was established in 1997, becoming
the first professional fashion event in Eastern Europe. Each year the UFW
presents the pret-a-porter collections from the leading Ukrainian designers
as well as the fashion industry newcomers, brings to Ukraine over 25,000
guests and accredits more than 150 media outlets from Ukraine and abroad.

For more information, please contact MarynaKhorunzha, +380443324784,
news at wnu-ukraine.com, Project Manager at Worldwide News Ukraine