This season, the house of LITKOVSKA appears for the first time on the official calendar of the Paris Fashion Week with its Autumn-Winter 2026/27 collection, FIREFLY. It is born from a fragile, almost nocturnal image: that of a stubborn light that refuses to disappear.

In Kyiv, there are nights when the city goes dark, when electricity ceases, the heating falls silent, and even water seems to withdraw into the stillness of winter. Then the inhabitants walk through the dark streets, a lamp strapped to their foreheads. From afar, it looks like a sky turned upside down upon the earth: small trembling stars moving slowly through the night.

It is this vision that guided the collection. It was conceived in the austerity of winter, sometimes in workshops plunged into shadow, where one could see the breath of children mingling with the icy air. Yet, in the midst of this cold, a secret warmth persisted, the warmth that lives within people when everything seems to be lacking.

FIREFLY thus speaks of that inner clarity that survives uncertain times. The silhouettes extend the designer’s own language: an architecture of fabrics, composed of asymmetries and unfinished forms, as though the garment itself carried the mark of troubled days. Through these shifting lines emerges the memory of the Ukrainian baroque, with its vast proportions and its almost theatrical momentum.

At the heart of the season appears the “Besagy” bag, inspired by the Ukrainian besahy of travelers. This double bag was once slung over the shoulder of walkers and merchants. Reimagined for the contemporary nomad, it retains something of the gravity of departures and the memory of the road.

And throughout the collection, a torch appears again and again. It illuminates very little, yet in the night that is sometimes enough to keep moving forward.

“Вільна Україна”
Free Ukraine

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