The autumn-winter 2026/27 season was a new important step for LITKOVSKA – the Ukrainian brand entered the official schedule of catwalk shows at Paris Fashion Week for the first time. The new collection was called FIREFLY, and it was dedicated to Kyiv – a strong city that learned to live in a new rhythm this winter.
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“In Kyiv, there are days without electricity, without heat, without water. People move around the city with small flashlights on their heads. From afar, the streets resemble the sky that has fallen to the ground — scattered with moving tiny stars, fireflies. It was this image that became the soul of the collection. It was created in the conditions of a real winter — in cold studios, where sometimes there was no electricity, in rooms where you could see breath in the air. But it was warm inside. FIREFLY explores the idea of an inner light that does not fade under the pressure of circumstances and unites people even in times of uncertainty,” says Liliya Litkovska about the process of creating the new collection.
The atmosphere of Kyiv itself becomes part of the narrative of the collection. The city has its own scent of life – cold air, stone, smoke and human presence – a fragile but persistent reminder of the continuity of life in uncertain times. This tension between vulnerability and vitality runs through the entire collection. For the show, this feeling was conveyed through a specially created fragrance in collaboration with a perfumer – the scent of Kyiv this winter. The collection continues to develop LITKOVSKA’s signature codes, based on intellectual tailoring, architectural deconstruction and transformative design. Asymmetry and the aesthetic of “incompleteness” reflect the fragility of our time, when stability often seems an illusion.
The silhouettes enter into a dialogue between the past and the present, addressing the expressive language of Ukrainian Baroque – from the architecture of Kyiv to the dramatic proportions of the Baroque costume. The central element of the season is the BESAGY BAG – a bag inspired by traditional Ukrainian besagas, a two-sided bag that was historically worn over the shoulder during long journeys or trips to the market. Reinterpreted for the modern traveler, it reminds us of the most necessary thing that a person takes with them on a journey through uncertainty. Throughout the show, the flashlight appears both as a practical object and as a metaphor for direction and survival. When darkness surrounds, one light helps find the way to another.