President of the Competition: Rector of KNUTD, Prof. Ivan Gryshchenko

Competition Director: Nataliia Chuprina, Director of Student Center of Fashion and Creativity, Dr. of Study of Arts, Prof.

Address: 01011 Kyiv, 2, Mala Shyianovska (Nemyrovych-Danchenko) Str., Kyiv, 01011

Phone numbers: +380442562126, +380679657945

e-mail: fashion@knutd.edu.ua

Film "Pecherski Kashtany" - the history of the Competition"

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TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

XXV International competition of young designers

"Pecherski Kashtany"

The Organizing Committee of the Contest announces the start of registration for the XXIV International Contest of Young Designers "Pecherski Kashtany" and invites you to take part in the competition program and the final of the Contest, which will be held on May 30, 2025.

The creative concept and motto of the Contest is «Eco-friendly, Ethnocentric, Innovative – A New Vision of Design». The contest is a platform for creative expression and highlighting important aspects of the present through creativity. Participants have the opportunity to create fashion collections that reflect a unique interpretation of many contemporary themes.

Organization of the competition

KNUTD provides organizational, methodological and informational support for the Competition.

The organizing committee of the Competition includes leading academic staff of the Faculties of Design, Arts and Fashion, colleges of KNUTD, university partners from specialized domestic and foreign educational institutions, enterprises, etc.

The official languages of the Competition are Ukrainian and English.

Jury composition         

The jury (by the directions of the Competition) consists of leading fashion and fashion business professionals working in the fashion industry and specialized higher education of the national and world fashion segment, media representatives, experts in the field of fashion and design.

Awarding of the contest participants

The winners of the Contest are determined by the jury: the first three places in each nomination of the Contest are determined (the jury reserves the right to award from one to three places in each nomination); the Grand Prix is selected from the collections of Clothing, Footwear and Accessories. The finalists will receive the respective Diplomas, and all participants will receive Certificates for participation in the Contest.

The procedure of the competition  

The Competition is open to students, young designers and fashion designers, and other participants in the educational process in the fields of fashion, textiles and design. The Contest consists of three professional competitions: clothing; footwear and accessories; textiles.

The Competition is held in three stages:

the first is preparatory (participants send their prepared works for evaluation);

second - semi-final (the jury evaluates the submitted video content and decides on the next stage);

the third stage is the final stage of the Contest (the finalists demonstrate their collections on the podium, and the winners are determined by the jury).

Participation in the competition program is possible upon submission of the Application for participation in the Competition with further submission of content by 10.05.2025. The Application must contain information about the possibility of offline participation in the final show (indicated when registering the work). The number of participants from higher education institutions is unlimited. Each contestant has the right to participate in any nomination an unlimited number of times, provided that they submit different entries. Prerequisite: the submitted works must be original and not presented at previous Pecherski Kashtany Contests.

Professional contests are held in the following nominations:

REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITION WORKS

(CLOTHING, SHOES and ACCESSORIES)

Each participant of the Contest has the right to participate in several nominations.

Entries are defined as a prepared video or animated presentation lasting up to 3 minutes with selected music or voice accompaniment, which presents the number of models or sketches required by the terms of the competition. The submitted video should reflect the concept and make it possible to evaluate the quantity and quality of the presented works, the presence of a general plan (all presented models in one frame) is mandatory for assessing the integrity of the collection image. The material should contain information about the name of the collection. The availability of information about the authors is at the discretion of the authors of the work.

For the Fashion contest, the collection must meet the following conditions:

- a collection made in the material (at least 5 models), representing a holistic reflection of the author's project;

- presentation of a creative sketch proposal – a model range of collection sketches (at least 7 sketches; participation in the competition with only sketch proposals does not provide for reaching the final).

For the Footwear and Accessories competition, the collection must meet the following conditions:

- a collection made in the material (at least 3 models), representing a holistic reflection of the project image;

- presentation of a creative sketch proposal – a model range of collection sketches (at least 7 sketches; participation in the competition with only sketch proposals does not provide for reaching the final).

Evaluation of collections:

- a jury member evaluates each collection on a 10-point scale according to the main criteria: the novelty and originality of the idea; compositional and artistic expressiveness; integrity of the image;

- all points are summarized; the average value is calculated taking into account the number of jury members in the evaluation of each collection; a rating table is formed;

- jury members discuss the results and determine the finalists and winners of the Competition.

REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITION WORKS (TEXTILES)

Works in the following areas are accepted for participation in the Textile contest: Tapestry; Batik; Patchwork (Quilt); Embroidery; Doll; Layouts of drawings for fabrics and interiors; Projects of interiors and architectural structures.

Evaluation criteria: artistic expression and originality; use of modern ideas, forms, materials and technologies; design and presentation of the product.

All works submitted to the competition must have a complete look, be designed in accordance with the specifics of the chosen direction and technique, and represent a complete and complete author's project.

The number of authors of the collection is no more than 2 people.

Organizational fees: FREE

COMPETITION MATERIALS AND DEADLINES FOR THEIR SUBMISSION TO THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

1. Until 10.05.2025 - processing of applications by the Organizing Committee; participants of the Competition fill in the online registration form and send their works;
   https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaFBHTxCkgW9nBRvmjJsGMHnGb8gqHQUq2NeNlNX9eBpqc9g/viewform?usp=header
2. 11.05 - 14.05.2025 - review and evaluation of works by the jury, determination of the finalists of the Competition;
3. 15.05.2025 - informing the finalists about the passage and participation in the final stage of the Competition;
4. 30.05.2025 - the final of the Competition - determination and awarding of the winners: Grand Prix of the Competition and the first three places in each nomination;
5. 30.05 - 06.06.2025 - summarizing the results, sending Diplomas and Certificates to the participants of the Competition.

Director of the competition: Nataliia Chuprina +38(067)9657945

Moderators: Anastasia Yukhymchuk +38(050)0580761

Olesya Skaskiv +38(067)7759257

History

The international competition of young fashion designers "Pecherski Kashtany" was founded in 2001 on the initiative of the Kiev National University of Technologies and Design with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian fashion world calls this contest a students’ competition, because only students take part in it. Young fashion designers learn to speak the language of the images created by them, trying to express themselves through a costume form.

Four-day semi-final shows, a rather tough selection of the professional jury - and, finally, the final stage (final) - happy winners and participants who manage to become real friends. So every year there is a competition ..., and fashion critics note the high level of contestants, and say that holding such a competition is necessary for the development of Ukrainian fashion and the revealing of new names.

Today, the professional world of fashion lives in a separate space of the so-called "Fashion Week"-s, follows the world trends, glitters on the pages of "glossy" magazines. But there were times when the concept of "fashion" was "matte" and its purpose was only functionality. It was from those times (1955), when students of high schools of light industry were trained as experts of mass production, and the first steps were taken to individual manifestation of the creative imagination of students of the Kiev Technological Institute of Light Industry. There were demonstrations of graduate works by students of sewing specialties and in accordance with the use of the cheapest materials (mainly cotton) they had the name "cotton balls".

Cotton Ball (1955)

Students’ collections of the 80's and 90's

Since the Student’s House of Fashion was founded in 1988, such events had become annual. In 2001, when the institute was awarded the title of Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, the university council proposed to create not just works preview, but a competition that in the same year acquired the status of the international and was named "Pecherski Kashtany". This name is symbolic, because the university is located in the old centre of the Ukrainian capital - Pechersk, where every May, when the competition takes place, chestnuts are in blossom. The logo of the contest most accurately conveys the combination of graceful beauty with chestnut leaves, as a symbol of young fashion sprouts.

Collections of "Pecherski Kashtany" participants 2001-2017

Annually more than 300 contestants from different cities of Ukraine and Europe take part in the contest. The target audience of about 5,000 people consists of students, leading experts in the fashion and show business industry, managers and owners of light industry enterprises, and foreign guests.

The founder of such a large-scale competition as "Pecherski Kashtany", Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, in particular the Faculty of Design and the Student's House of Fashion, as the direct executer and organizer of the event, has the main tasks - to provide talented young people of Ukraine and foreign countries with opportunities to establish creative contacts, exchange of experience, communication with leading designers - the creators of modern and future fashion, combination their intellectual and practical experience, mutuall enrichment of cultural and national traditions and establishment of friendly relations and cooperation. In addition, marking beginners, future specialists in the field of design, artistic modeling, designing and manufacturing of clothes, footwear, accessories, textile products gives an opportunity to familiarize potential employers with the work of young specialists, which undoubtedly expands the opportunities of youth employment. And this is an extremely topical problem for any student today.

Realizing this, the teachers of KNUTD are struggling to help young people who really feel the designer's vocation.