In order to popularize the principles of conscious consumption and circular fashion, on the initiative of the co-founder of ООО «ТК-ХАБ» and the TaKaSUMKA brand, Alexander Sokolovsky, with the support of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design, headed by Rector Ivan Gryshchenko, in October 2021, the student creative competition «Shopper-Duzhe eco. Duzhe fashion» was launched. The competition aims to create the design and construction of shopper - bags suitable for daily use from ecological materials or materials that have already been used. The competition provided for the stage of development of design sketches, as well as making the original samples of shoppers.

The competition was attended by 70 students from the Faculty of Fashion Industry, the Faculty of Design and the PCB of the "Professional College of Arts and Design" of the Kyiv National University of Technology and Design, who presented 162 sketches of shopper bags. According to the results of the first stage of development of a draft design of shopper bags, the jury members - representatives of the TaKaSUMKA brand and the Kiev National University of Technology and Design chose sketches of 18 authors to participate in the second stage of the competition:

Karina Arendar, Lina Bugay, Anastasia Buntovska, Valeria Goloyukh, Daria Derkach, Alina Zakharets, Victoria Zirkevich, Elena Ivanova, Alexandra Nos, Adriana Orihovska, Anna Pavlyuk, Ruslan Polyakov, Ekaterina Reshetnyak, Anna Sakharuk, Sofia Solopikhina, Daniil Tkachenko, Tatyana Cherchenko, Anna Khrapko.

In December 2021, as part of the «Suziriia Kashtan» competition, the jury members determined the winners of the competition (in the photo from left to right):

1st place – Adriana Orihovska;

2nd place – Daniil Tkachenko;

3rd place – Anna Sakharuk.

Lina Bugay won in the nomination "People's Choice", Alina Zakharets – "For Excellence"(in the photo from left to right)

The jury noted that talented creative students with creative thinking study at the university, who showed professional skills in making shopping bags.

The winners received an invitation to the 43rd International Specialized Exhibition "Leather&Shoes" (https://www.artexpo.ua/) to present their works on January 27, 2022. It is there that the awarding of participants and winners of the student creative competition “Shopper-Duzhe eco. Duzhe fashion". The best products of the winners will be manufactured at the company's production facilities and posted on its official website https://takasumka.com/.

18.01.2022