This year, Design Week at KNUTD opened with a vivid lecture on the history and innovations in men’s fashion from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Since the launch of the largest creative event of the year – Ukrainian Design and Innovation Week (UDIW) – the Faculty of Design at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design has been an active participant. Once again, teachers and students of our University enthusiastically took part in its activities. On September 29, 2025, the Department of Art and Fashion Design hosted a lecture by Iryna Chubotina, PhD in Design, on the topic “Men’s Fashion on the Catwalk: Outsiders or Main Characters?”

The lecture sparked genuine enthusiasm among the audience – from design students to experienced professionals and mentors of our talented youth.

The lecturer presented a detailed overview of the evolution of men’s fashion from the mid-19th century to the present, highlighting not only the changes in the form and appearance of men’s clothing, but also the reasons behind these transformations and the latest innovations.

The material presented by the lecturer reflected both the historical transformations in men’s clothing and the author’s modern vision of its development.

The author also emphasized the historical and social prerequisites for the development of men’s clothing prior to the fashion transformations of the specified period; the interconnections between various artistic practices such as clothing design, literature, and cinema; the regional characteristics of men’s fashion across different market sectors; as well as the concepts of gender, masculinity, and femininity in men’s clothing design at different stages of its evolution.

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30.09.2025