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📣📣📣 Polish Fashion Stories - The Weight of an Image: Magda Kuca

🗨 "I resonate with an image that feels like a document and a fable at the same time. A proof that something existed in time and space - but also a door left ajar onto something you can't quite name."

🧐⭐ Kuca’s work has drawn international attention and led to collaborations and exhibitions at institutions including the British Museum, University of the Arts London, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Aperture Gallery, and Photo Vogue, to name just a few. Alongside her practice, she mentors widely, sharing knowledge of rare photographic techniques. As she puts it, the most meaningful way to preserve them is by “using them, teaching them, and allowing them to evolve.”

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🧐 Read the article about the exceptional work of Magda Kuca here➡
https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2026/the-weight-of-an-image-magda-kuca

Images courtesy of Magda Kuca

📣📣📣 The young Polish fashion designer Paweł Robuta is going viral. His biggest goal is: “I manifest working in the atelier of Dior and sewing haute couture by hand.”

⭐ For the emerging fashion designer, the focus is on process, material and craft. From early encounters with art in Rome to film sets, textile labs in Sweden, and material-led collaborations, his work is guided less by fixed outcomes than by what unfolds along the way.

⭐ “I let the material guide me… in a way, the form emerges from how it behaves.”

📖 Read the full story on Polish Fashion Stories by Paulina Czajor here➡ https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2026/4/pawel-robuta-craft-form-and-becoming

Check out Paweł's Instagram here➡ https://www.instagram.com/_seraffa_/

A new article on Polish Fashion Stories marks the launch of a new Q&A series spotlighting Polish fashion creatives shaping London’s cultural scene.

The first feature is with UK-based Polish photographer Paul Perelka, known for his cinematic, emotive, raw, and spontaneous imagery.

From early macro-photography experiments to shooting Rita Ora and Tyla, Paul reflects on identity, process, London’s q***r community, and why great images should be felt rather than simply seen.

Read more below:
https://www.polishfashionstories.com/blogqa/2025/12/1/paul-perelka

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💭Bobbin lace - refined and intricate - has long been regarded as the queen of lace. Created by braiding and twisting threads wound onto bobbins, it requires not only precision but a quiet, almost musical sense of rhythm.

📍Though most often linked with the historic lace centres of Belgium, Italy, or Spain, this craft also found a quiet, enduring home in Poland.

💌This story celebrates two artisans - Magdalena Cięciwa and Małgorzata Szpila. Their approaches could not be more different, yet their purpose is the same: to keep the bobbins turning and the tradition alive - continuing the thread between then and now.

Magdalena Cięciwa remains faithful to tradition, reviving the charm of the Zakopane school of bobbin lace. Meanwhile, Małgorzata Szpila hails from Bobowa but threads new futures for the craft abroad, exploring its form, function, and contemporary dimension.

🔗 https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/8/bobbin-lace-from-poland

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💭Craft is having a moment - so how does it evolve from tradition into the future?

💌These Polish creatives are rewriting its language. From experimental hand-woven textiles and glass jewellery to futuristic latex lace, they draw on heritage techniques to craft bold, playful forms - rooted in tradition, driven by curiosity.

https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/new-forms-old-roots-craft-reimagined

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Ancestral techniques, family histories, and cultural symbols fuel a forward-looking vision at RAD - the design duo of Juliusz Rusin and Maciej Jóźwicki.
💭“Craftsmanship is something we absolutely glorify,” says Juliusz. “We try to integrate as much of it as possible, and to learn as much as we can. We don’t want to be just designers. We want to be great craftspeople too.”

💌In this piece, we explore their creative process, inspirations, and what it means to honour heritage - without getting stuck in nostalgia.

https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/7/rad-duet-a-forward-looking-ode-to-craft

Few artists challenge, provoke, and reward the viewer quite like Goshka Macuga. Her exhibitions unfold like puzzles inviting you to lean in, read between the lines, and return with new questions.
In this piece, we explore the investigative spirit at the heart of Macuga’s practice and her diverse projects where research into history, archives, obscured narratives, and the politics of visual language take centre stage. From sculpture and tapestry to performance and installation, her work compels us to ask: what does it mean to look, to know, to understand?
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🔗 https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/5/14/goshka-macuga-art-of-reframing

Aleksandra Gaca — a Poland-born, Netherlands-based, multi-award-winning textile designer and pioneer of 3D textiles. Her mastery lies in the interplay of material, colour, and pattern, creating textiles with both function and emotion.

Described by the Dutch Design Week jury as “poetic design with endless possibilities,” her creations go far beyond decoration — shaping acoustics, enhancing well-being, and transforming interiors, fashion boutique façades, and concept cars.

Passionate and persistent, Gaca thrives on challenges. Her success wasn’t built overnight, but through fearless experimentation, insatiable curiosity and a refusal to settle for the expected.

🔗Discover her full story:
https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/4/soft-power-aleksandra-gaca-and-her-3d-textiles

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Edward’s creative eye was trained early. Already as a child, while others watched cartoons, he flipped through Vogue Italia under Franca Sozzani - soaking in aesthetics, storytelling, and visual codes that define his work today.

From academic research and trend analysis to fashion commentary on his blog and Substack, his practice is both analytical and deeply visual.
He likes to call his process “instinctual-visual-intertextuality”.

His multilayered collages act as visual dialogues with fashion, while his recent foray into creative consulting sees him shaping brand narratives through research and art coordination.

Click the link below for the full story.
https://www.polishfashionstories.com/we-love-1/2025/3/18/edward-kanarecki

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Polish creatives Piotr Chamier (casting) and Pat Boguslawski (movement direction) are redefining the fashion narrative for high-end brands, championing creativity and diversity to resonate with today’s evolving audience.
Discover their stories and nonlinear careers in the latest article.

Polish Fashion Stories Meet two outstanding Polish creatives, Piotr Chamier and Pat Boguslawski, whose nonlinear careers have taken through various parts of the creative industry. Now, they collaborate with some of the most coveted fashion labels, fine-tuning their representation and experiential strategies to reflect th

🪡 From the luxurious gold-work bonnets worn by wealthy women to the vibrant craft we know today, Kashubian embroidery has a fascinating story.

📃Explore how visionary artist Teodora Gulgowska translated motifs from gold work, painted glass, and polychrome furniture into creative designs, giving birth to an embroidery style that became a powerful symbol of beauty and cultural identity for the Kashubians. This craft also served as a means of empowering the local community in the face of encroaching industrialization in the early 20th century.

✨Today, embroidery in Kashubia remains ever-present practiced by grandmothers, daughters and men alike. This thriving tradition is the legacy of generations of artisans trained by Teodora Gulgowska. Meet Anna Miszczak, a highly respected artisan and educator dedicated to continuing and evolving the Kashubian craft. Discover her unique approach and her recent gold-work bonnet project.

Muzeum - Kaszubski Park Etnograficzny

Polish Fashion Stories One of Kashubia's most iconic crafts is embroidery, commonly known as ‘Kashubian embroidery' suggesting there's a single embroidery style. In reality though, the region is home to several distinct 'schools' of the craft. Just like the origins of the Kashubians themselves, the exact genesis of Kash