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Category: Apparel
Competitions: Fashion Competition 2026
Each piece carries a sense of continuity between past and present. The use of cross-stitch embroidery draws directly from Ukrainian tradition, where ornament was never purely decorative but embedded with meaning, memory, and identity. Here, it is not replicated, but recontextualised — translated onto new forms and materials, where its rhythm and geometry remain, but its placement and purpose evolve. Rather than preserving heritage as something static, the garments propose a new perspective. They treat tradition as something living — adaptable, personal, and in constant dialogue with the present. Through material, construction, and detail, the outfit becomes a way of carrying cultural memory forward, allowing it to exist not only as something remembered, but as something worn. "Home lives in memory before it exists in space. It is built from childhood impressions — quiet details, textures, and emotions that stay beneath the surface. Through making, I bring these fragments into the present, giving them new form. What I create becomes a dialogue between where I come from and who I am becoming.” See full website portfoio for emerging experience: http://romanbarakhtian.studio/
