2023
Fashion Designer of the Year
Zuzana Kubíčková
Fashion Designer of the Year
Zuzana Kubíčková
Couture 2024 collection
Fashion designer Zuzana Kubíčková celebrated ten years of her studio. She did so in the most appropriate way: with the Couture 2022/23 collection, which is her most beautiful to date. It’s a collection that represents and further develops the best of Kubíčková’s work. A collection that is truly a collection. In the context of the contemporary Czech fashion scene, when any random grouping of garments is called a collection, Zuzana Kubíčková returns this word to its original meaning. She does so through perfectly mastered craftsmanship, generous, not megalomaniacal ideas, a clear vision and a coherent artistic concept in which each model has a precise place. Over many seasons, the designer has proved that one cannot exist without the other and that every detail, even the smallest one, plays an important role. Her work doesn't have to shout to be seen.
The leitmotif of the Couture 2022/23 collection is time: its passage, limitlessness, boundlessness. Continuity. Beautiful memories of the most beautiful dresses. Memories to which only time can give a new and unexpected meaning.
The main materials used are those we expect from Zuzana Kubíčková's studio. Women are again introduced to the realm of silk, satin, lace, decorative embroidery, crystal, and pearls. Naturally, there is not much talking here, only the occasional rustle of fabric, into which scissors cut unerringly, the subtle hushed laughter of seamstresses who sew by hand, and the distant click of high heels. This is what luxury sounds like.
Black is the dominant colour. Again, it has to do with time, its eternity completely independent of it. A shiny black looks quite different from a matt one. Black doesn't need another colour palette to come to life, it just occasionally invites white in different shades, as well as powder. Red is seen here and there in an imaginative accent. This is quite sufficient, however.
Zuzana Kubíčková makes it clear that her fashion creations are meaningful and sustainable. This time, she does so with the most graceful gesture, and the most self-conscious and completely unquestionable we have seen to date. A gesture that bears the name Couture 2022/23.
Andrea Běhounková