The specialty "Art Modelling of a Suit" was open at the Kiev Institute of Technology of Light Industry in 1987, and in 1992 at faculty of technologies of light industry. was created department of the art modeling of a suit.

The first teachers and founders of the creative specialty were Members of the National union of artists of Ukraine and the Union of designers of Ukraine professor T.V. Nikolaeva, associate professors L.M. Latisheva, V.M. Mudra, N.M. Shekhireva, O.S. Mamchich, M.V. Dorokhina, V.S. Smazhenko, A.G. Shapoval, R.M. Halliyeva, L.O. Borisova, E.P. Gula, etc. In 1994, a candidate of technical sciences, professor Tetyana Vadimivna Nikolayeva was elected as the head of the department, and headed the department until 2022.

Tetyana Nikolayeva is an outstanding Ukrainian scientist in the field of the theory of artistic costume formation, designer, and teacher. The subject of her scientific activity is the study of patterns of artistic costume modeling based on various creative sources in visual, decorative, and applied arts, design and architecture. T. Nikolayeva's academic heritage includes more than 300 publications on the problems of artistic modeling and costume composition, clothing design, the development of costume graphic language and the theory of costume formation, the methodology and practice of artistic costume design, the theoretical and methodological basis of design and art education.

From 1992 the department trained more than 700 experts in the field of art modeling of a suit, knitwear, style, image and a spectacular suit, the corporate style and souvenir products, footwear and products from skin. Among them there are such famous Ukrainian designers as: Tatyana Zemskova, Elena Vorozhbit, Lilia Pustovit, Diana Dorozhkina, Angela Lisitsa, Aina Gase, Irina Karavay, Olena Burenina, Jean Grytzfeld, Oleksandr Kanevskiy, Maria Reva and others.

Department was repeatedly awarded with Certificates of honor of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, thanks of the Kiev mayor's office, diplomas of the Union of artists of Ukraine.

On January 25, 2022, the department was renamed the Department of Art and Fashion Design. Since 2024, the department has been headed by Nataliia Vladyslavivna Chuprina, doctor of study of art, professor, member of the Union of Designers of Ukraine.

10 teachers work at the Department, who train bachelors, masters and postgraduates students.

All academic staff is members of the Union of Designers of Ukraine. Professors – K. L. Pashkevych, O. V. Kolosnichenko, T. F. Krotova, N. V. Chuprina are members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. 

The material and technical resources of the Department are constantly developed and updated. At the Department, there are art studios, studios-laboratories and design studios:

• 1-0362, 1-0365 – educational and creative workshop "Design studio for the development of promising clothing collections";
• 1-0364 – creative design laboratory and design studio for the study and reconstruction of historical costume;
• 1-0307 – design-studio for historical costume reconstruction;
• 1-0366 – educational and creative workshop "Art studio of composition and color studies";
• 1-0368, 1-0277 – educational and creative workshop "Art studio for design graphics and project graphics";
• 1-0369 – creative studio-laboratory for complex design and planning.

In the educational and creative workshops and laboratories, students perform creative designs for International and All-Ukrainian competitions of clothing designers and make and develop creative collections of promising costume models. In the scientific and creative design laboratory for the study and reconstruction of historical costume, under the guidance of the department's teachers, students conduct research on the historiography of costume forms and perform creative development of models of reconstructed historical and folk costumes.

Classes on clothing shaping in the room 1-0350 (Assoc. Prof. I.V. Davydenko, Assoc. Prof. O.D. Gerasymenko)

Classes in the discipline "Complex design-projection" in the room 1-0369 (Prof. O.V. Kolosnichenko, Prof. N.V. Chuprina)

Classes in the discipline "Artistic modeling and clothing design" in the room 1-0368 (Assoc. Prof. O.D. Gerasymenko, Assoc. Prof. I.V. Davydenko, Prof. K.L. Pashkevych, asst. N.R. Liuklian)

Master class of the designer, founder of his own fashion brand KASS Bohdan Kass and bachelor students at lectures on "History of Art and Design" (room 1-0365, Prof. T.F. Krotov, Assos. G.V. Kokorina)

The Department of Art and Fashion Design is a graduate in the specialty 022 "Design", educational programs "Apparel Design" (Bachelor's), "Apparel Design" (Master's).

Bachelor’s educational program

Specialty: 022 "Design"

Educational program: "Fashion Design" 

Level of higher education: "Bachelor"

Faculty: Design

Term of study: 8 semesters (3 years 10 months)

ECTS credits: 240

Language of study: Ukrainian

Master's educational program

Specialty: 022 "Design"

Educational program: "Fashion Design"

Level of higher education: "Master"

Faculty: Design

Term of study: 3 semesters (1 year 4 months)

ECTS credits: 90

Language of study: Ukrainian

The scientific and pedagogical staff of the Department founded the art school “Research on the Tectonic Structure of the Costume in the Development of Promising Clothing Collections” where the study of the patterns of functioning of fashion and formation of promising costume forms and the development of modern fashion is carried out (founder of the school – T.V. Nikolaeva).

The art school of Department works in the direction of researches and improvement of process of design of the new range of clothes, tectonic structure of a suit in development of perspective collections and techniques of reconstrucfounder of the schoolon of historical and national clothes (research supervisors – professors: K.L. Pashkevych, T.F. Krotova, O.V. Kolosnichenko, N.V. Chuprina).

Examples of the complex scientific and creative work of the Department are the development of branded clothing for the border and customs service, railway transport of Ukraine, the state fiscal service, communal services and medical institutions of Kyiv,  costumes for the representative delegation, and volunteers of Euro-2012 (second prize at the All-Ukrainian competition), historical tourist park "Kyivska Rus", National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Ukraine, many films and theater performances. In particular, under the leadership of the teacher of the department Assoc. N.I. Kudryavtseva, students, and teachers worked on the development of spectacular costumes for the films "My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan", and "Cyborgs", which received prestigious international awards at film festivals.

Prof. T.V. Nikolayeva, Assoc. Prof. G.V. Kokorina, I.V. Davydenko, N.I. Kudryavtseva, I.L. Gaiova, and other teachers of the Department initiated the creation of the "Costume Library" collection of historical costume replicas and organized exhibitions of historical and modern costumes, including: "History in Costumes" (2005, National Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art), "Game with Time" (2007, Alta Center), "Hubert Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn" (2010, Radisson Blu), "From Gothic to Modern" (2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal), "Body Limits" (2011, Mystetskyi Arsenal), "Ukrainian Couture" (2016 -2017, Kyiv, TsUM), "Capital fashion of the XVIII-XIX centuries: cinema and artifacts" (2017, Kyiv, Victoria Museum), the project "Costume of the countries of the East" (2018-2021, Chernihiv Historical Museum V.V. Tarnovskyi). During 2005-2021, more than 30 exhibitions of historical and national costumes were held, including during the presentation of KNUTD at the World Exhibition "EXPO-2020 Dubai" in 2022.

The academic staff of the Department have registered an initiative scientific topic “Current trends in costume design” in the Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information (State Registration №0120U102456, 2020-2023), scientific supervisors – Dr. Prof. T. F. Krotova and Dr. Prof. N. V. Chuprina. 

Prof. O. V. Kolosnichenko is the scientific supervisor of the state budget topic “Development of design and ergonomic solutions for functional adaptive clothing for the seriously ill and the military in terms of preventing a new outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic”, 2021-2022 (State Registration №0121U109720). The main directions of scientific work of the department are:

• "Research of the tectonics of costume formation and improvement of methods of development of promising clothing collections using modern information technologies" (supervisor – Dr. Eng., Prof. K. L. Pashkevych);
• "Culturology and aesthetics of design in costume design in the context of multicultural integration" (supervisor - Doctor of Art History, Prof. T. F. Krotova);
• "Theoretical and practical foundations of aesthetic design of clothing for various purposes" (supervisor Doctor of Art History, Prof. O. V. Kolosnichenko);
• "Fashion system as an integrated field of design" (supervisor - Doctor of Art History, Prof. N. V. Chuprina).

Over the years of development of the Department, scientific and pedagogical workers carried out scientific research and by their results defended theses for a scientific degree of Candidate and Doctor of Sciences on the following topics:

• "Theoretical foundations of artistic and compositional formation of special purpose clothing" (Prof. O. V. Kolosnichenko);
• "Fashion system of the XX - early XXI century: design practices and factors of functioning" (European and Ukrainian contexts) (Prof. N. V. Chuprina);
• "Stylistic transformations in costume design: artistic means and principles of formation" (Assoc. Prof. A. I. Baranova);
• "Ethno-artistic heritage of Dominic De la Fleece in the design of modern clothing" (assistant N. P. Paranko)
• «Improvement of a designing process of the top knitwear taking into account characteristics of cloths» (Assoc. Prof. E.A. Kiselyova.);
• «Improvement of a designing process of initial clothes of irregular shape» (Assoc. Prof. V.I. Malinovsky.);
• «Development of process of reconstruction of the Ukrainian historical men's suit» (Assoc. Prof G.V. Kokorina);
• «Improvement of a method of art designing of a kidswear on the basis of the bionic principles of shaping» (Assoc. Prof. T. I. Nikolaeva).

The results of scientific research presented during the defense of theses form the basis for research work of the Department, involving students (developed in term papers and theses for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Design).

Every year, within the framework of the conference "Topical issues of modern design", a meeting of the platform "Art and Fashion Design Trends" takes place under the direct organization and participation of the Department of Art and Fashion Design. International scientific-practical conference "Topical issues of modern design" is an annual event, conducted by the Faculty of Design of KNUTD since 2018, the purpose of which is - exchange of experience and research results on topical design problems, promoting creative cooperation of the best specialists, artists, scientists in design and art specialties of Ukraine and the world. The conference is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

First (bachelor's) level of higher education

1. Current fashion trends

2. Design-graphics

3. Art and Design History

4. Art History

5. Computer technology design activities

6. Complex design projecting

7. Composition and color science

8. Brand design concepts

9. Textile design in the manufacture of clothing models

10. Technologies for manufacturing clothes

11. Fashion illustration and computer-aided clothing design

12. Shaping and layout of clothes

13. Artistic modeling and clothing design

14. Artistic design of clothes

Second (master's) level of higher education

15. Methodology of modern scientific research with the basics of intellectual property

16. Fashion trends and branding in the fashion industry

17. Fashion design graphics

18. Design practices in the fashion system

19. Design and presentation of clothing collections

20. Implementation of design projects in the fashion industry

21. Modern methods of design projecting (by types)

22. Modern technologies of design activity

Third (educational and scientific) level of higher education

23. Design and ergonomics

24. General theory of shaping

25. Computer technologies in the design of textile products

26. Composition and design analysis in design

27. Modern concepts and design technologies

Educational programs have been developed by the academic staff of the Department considering the best design practices in the relevant design schools of Ukraine and the world.

About 200 full-time students and almost 50 part-time students from Ukraine and other countries study at the Department of Art and Fashion Design.

In the course of training the students of department perform many creative developments, participate in All-Ukrainian and international competitions of fashion artists and fashion designers, where they constantly win prizes.

International competition of young fashion designers "Pechersky Kashtany"

Students of department, under the leadership of teachers, are participants and winners of the following All-Ukrainian and international creative professional competitions: "In Vogue Vilnius" (Vilnius, Lithuania); "Les Etioiles De La Mode" (Liege, Belgium); "Assembly of unrestrained fashion" (Vilnius, Lithuania); "Gold thread" (Poznan, Poland); "Pechersky Kashtany " (Kyiv); "Gold amphora" (Sofia, Bulgaria); "Ukrainian fashion week; International Exhibition "Kyiv-Fashion"; "Fashion Seasons - A Look into the Future" (Kyiv); FRANKFURTSTYLEAWARD (Frankfurt, Germany); PRIME ART (Katowice, Poland); Start Fashion (Kharkiv); Remix Eurasia Fur Futures Ukraine (Kyiv); International Youth Designer Competition (IYDC) (Beijing, China); NEW FASHION ZONE (Kyiv); Epson Digital Fashion (Kyiv).

International competition of one image and New Year's and Christmas decor "Suziriia “Kashtan" 

Over 10 years, creative developments of the students of the Department have received more than 600 awards of different levels, among which - 25 Grand Prix.

In addition, for the last few years the students of the Department Art and Fashion Design, future designers of costume, have been regular participants of the International festivals “Kyiv-Fashion” and UFW (Ukrainian Fashion Week).

Graduates and students of the department present their collections at London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Berlin Fashion Week, Global Sustainable Fashion Week (Hungary) and others.

Fashion  collections of students and graduates of the department on the world catwalks

During training at the University, students acquire knowledge in the field of artistic costume design, knitwear, stage costume, corporate style, creation of image, computer graphics, etc. Students master the basics of the pre-project, design analysis, and modern technologies of creative activities in the field of design, learn modern techniques of scientific research, and take part in the international and all-Ukrainian exhibitions, and competitions of young designers and stylists.

Effective methods of training, modern creative developments of designers, the newest samples of the sewing equipment of the leading firms of the world, the computer equipment, and the unique professional-focused software are actively applied in the educational process.

The students of the Department acquire knowledge both within the framework of university-wide regulatory cycles, and original programs of professionally focused courses which are developed by the leading teachers and designers, and are constantly modernized by the international standards of training of designers in different directions of design activities.

Students undergo internships at fashion industry enterprises, museums and national reserves of Ukraine, in particular, fashion clothing brand "FROLOV", LLC "Frolov Hart"; fashion clothing brand "KASS", sole proprietor Kass B.V.; LLC "Dana Moda"; LLC "Advertising Textiles"; knitting factory "ROZA"; design studio "i-CHEF by Irina Makhinko"; design studio "Agajan"; sewing enterprise "Bahor" (Lyon, France); knitted enterprise "Tongliao Hengda" (China) and other institutions of Ukraine and abroad.

Works on the reconstruction of products from the costume funds of the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine within the framework of the 2nd course of educational practice

Production practice of students of the department at the enterprises "Advertising Textiles", the design studio of clothes for ballroom dancing and the enterprise for the production of wedding dresses "Slanovskiy"

Practical training of students at KF "ROZA" (Kyiv)

Review of the works of education seekers of the department of AFD, completed within the framework of practical training tasks

The Faculty of Design offers a postgraduate course and training of doctors of philosophy in the specialty 022 “Design”.

Also, third- and fourth-year students of the Department of Art and Fashion Design have an opportunity to get military education and obtain the corresponding diploma of the state standard. 

The Department has organized and operates student scientific and creative clubs, whose activities are aimed at improving the professional skills of students, and enhancing their creative potential and executive skills.

Fashion design: tectonics of form formation (supervisors - K. L. Pashkevich, Doc., Prof., O. V. Kolosnichenko, Doc., Prof.)

The main tasks of the student scientific group:

• research of the principles of the system approach in the design of tectonic forms of clothing taking into account the properties of fabrics;
• study of modern design and composition technologies and research methods, application of information technologies in clothing design;
• development of theoretical and methodological bases for taking into account the properties of fabrics in the development of complex three-dimensional forms of a suit;
• study of means of harmonizing the appearance of clothing based on the analysis of the costume shape from the standpoint of the tectonic approach.

Meeting of the scientific group "Costume design: tectonics of form formation"

Current trends in costume design (leaders – T. F. Krotova, Doc., Prof., N. V. Chuprina, Doc., Prof.).

The main priorities in work of student club it:

• forecasting of structure as a stage of preproject works in the fashion system;
• major factors of design development of modern clothes in the conditions of the modern fashion;
• associative methods of search of creative decisions in design of a suit;

development of the principles of presentation of the collection of costume models (at various clothing festivals and contests of young fashion designers-designers of clothing on an all-Ukrainian and international scale).

Reconstruction of historical costume (supervisors – G. V. Kokorina, Ph.D., Associate Professor, I. V. Davydenko, Associate Professor).

The main areas of work of the student club:

• research of history of the Ukrainian fashion of the ХХ – ХХІ centuries ;
• reconstruction of a national suit of Ukraine;
• development of samples of historical and national costume and their exposition at various exhibition locations;
• conducting thematic costume exhibitions jointly with the museums of Kyiv and Ukraine.

Field meeting of the scientific group in the exposition of the exhibition "Costume Library: Ukrainian Baroque" in the National Reserve "Sofia of Kyiv"

Teachers and students of the department of AFD at the exhibition of creative works of students "Contrasts of creativity of the Faculty of Design"
in the "Art Space" Exhibition Center of KNUTD

Among the graduates of the Department of Art and Fashion Design are the leading designers of Ukraine in the area of fashion design, including:

	Diana Dorozhkina, a designer of the "Fashion House of Diana Dorozhkina", the alumna of 2000. Creative skills of the said designer are noted on numerous national and international competitions - she won the Grand Prix "Young Fashion Stars" (city of Liege, Belgium, 2000), the "Crystal Silhouette" (city of Kyiv, 2003), "Competition of cruise collections "10x10" (2004) and others. Demonstrations of her collections based on evening dresses and corsets, fur and leather clothes were repeatedly held in Europe and the USA.
	Aina Gasse, a chief designer of the design-studio "Aina Gasse", the alumna of 2000. In the same year created the first collection presented in the framework of the Ukrainian "Seasons of fashion" and in April 2008 presented a new collection of the season autumn-winter 2008/09 in Milan. In January-February 2009 the brand name «Aina Gasse» showed the industrial collection of the season autumn-winter 2009/10 for buyers in pret-a-porter fashion week in Paris and Milanovendemoda in Paris and Milan. Among the achievements of the designer - the creation of its own factory and network of boutiques, the release of products with its trend on the European market.
	Tetiana Zemskova, Olena Vorozhbit, the famous Ukrainian designers, founders of the brand "Zemskova/Vorozhbit", graduated in 1992. In 1994, after the first significant show of clothes collection within the program "Culture of Ukraine", their works were selected for exhibitions at the Museum of Fashion in Toulouse (France) where they are presenting until now. Since 1997 the designers are working on their own brand "V&Z", under the auspices of which they are presenting their collections since that time. Every year the designers present two dress collections on the podium of the UFW (Ukrainian Fashion Week). The design duo presents their collections with a stable success at many fashion festivals and design competitions in Kyiv, the Baltic States and Europe.
	Anzhela Lysytsia, a leading Ukrainian stylist, the alumna of 1992. Her art works are known to many from the New Year's television musical "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka", "Figaro", "Cinderella", "Sorochyntsi Fair", etc. While studying at the department artistic designing of costume collaborated with the French magazine ITRT, participated and became the winner of numerous professional student competitions and festivals in the area of dress design. After graduation she worked in France and in Kyiv House of knitted patterns. At the same time she introduced its first full author's collection on the first "Fashion Seasons", and then she saw the first regular customers. Now she is the designer of own dress-making studio.
	Iryna Karavai is a well-known Ukrainian designer, creative director of the KARAVAY brand, a 2001 graduate. In 2003, the Nota Bene & KARAVAY brand was created as a joint project of Nota Bene and designer Irina Karavay. In the same year, Iryna took part in the New Names contest, where she presented her first author's collection. In 2011, Iryna founded the independent brand KARAVAY, whose collections regularly participate in the shows of the Ukrainian Fashion Week, and the models are successfully sold in Ukraine and abroad.
	Olena Burenina, a young Ukrainian designer, the alumna of 2008. In 2006, being a student of the department of artistic designing of costume she became the winner of the contest "Fashion Seasons - Look to the Future", and in 2007 presented a large n author’s collection within the framework the UFW (Ukrainian Fashion Week). In 2009 became the winner of the TV project-contest of young designers "ProFashion." Now is actively developing its own brand.
	Masha Reva, a young Ukrainian designer, the alumna of 2010. The winner of the competitions of young fashion designers Bazaar Fashion Forward-2010. She was trained in New York, by the iconic designer Walter Van Beirendonck. The next stage in the development of her creative career is training in the most prestigious international fashion school – the School of St. Martin. Actively develops its own creative brand.
	Jean Gritzfeld is one of the top Ukrainian designers. Most Ukrainian stars wear his clothes, and his collections are always bold, daring and extravagant.

Since 2001, at the review of design schools of Ukraine, the department of Art and Fashion Design of KNUTD was recognized as the best in this industry, and since then, it has not left the leading place in design education in Ukraine.

The Department actively develops the international partnership with foreign educational institutions and organizations in the industry of fashion and design. Within separate projects of foreign partnership the department cooperates with all related institutions of higher education of Ukraine and also with institutions of higher education of Bulgaria, Poland, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Iran, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, France, Great Britain, China and Italy.

For more than 10 years, the Department has been training students from China, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, etc. Graduates of the Department successfully work in the most known and prestigious fashion houses, firms, and educational institutions abroad. Since 2019, distance training of students has been carried out in Cilu, China.

The Department of Art and Fashion Design has the title of an international department and received a certificate from the Plato International Academy for the right to carry out educational activities in the field of costume design at the international level.

In 2013, the contract on creative cooperation with Institute of Marketing and Fashion (Paris, France) was signed.  

Birmingham City University and Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design received support in the Erasmus + Academic Mobility Project for 2021-2023. The essence of the project is to involve students in real professional activities that go beyond the educational program "Design". The method of training students in clothing design at Birmingham City University is focused on the sphere of stage costume and fashion, and the Department of Art and Fashion Design of KNUTD has gained experience in stage costume, and developed unique methods of costume reconstruction.

Teachers and students of the department at Birmingham City University

Internship of department teachers at the Baltic International Academy (Riga, Latvia) as part of the ERASMUS+ academic mobility program

To conduct classes, the department invites lecturers from various educational institutions of Ukraine and the world. Thus, in 2023, a series of lectures by Eugene Reabenykiy, a lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of the State Pedagogical University named after I. Kriange (Moldova) on the topic "Fashion illustration: techniques, methods, tools" and Kateryna Chrichlow was held, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Media of Birmingham City University (Great Britain) on the topic "Principles of developing a fashion designer's portfolio".

Fragments of Kateryna Critchlow's lecture

Fragments of Eugene Reabenykiy's lecture

Lecturers and students of the department took part in the International interdisciplinary online seminars "Language of fashion: exploring research method" and "Sustainable fashion critique", which were organized by Nataliya Rozhin, a leading lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Fashion and Media of Birmingham City University (Great Britain), attended the online lecture of Refic Anadol, lecturer of Domus Academy (Italy), etc.

Students of KNUTD and Birmingham City University at online seminars