Look into the Future. The Khanenko Museum Collection” Announces the Winners of the 2025 Contest

On September 4, the final of the XXVI All-Ukrainian Contest for Young Fashion Designers, “Look into the Future,” took place at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, marking the opening of the new Ukrainian Fashion Week SS26 season.

“For more than 25 years, we have been holding the All-Ukrainian Contest for Young Designers, fully aware of our responsibility to both the fashion industry and the country. In times of challenges, it is especially important to support a new generation of designers who will grow, create, and shape the future of Ukraine,” commented Iryna Danylevska, co-founder and CEO of Ukrainian Fashion Week.

Winners of the Contest “Look into the Future. The Khanenko Museum Collection”:

• The Grand Prix and a monetary award of UAH 100,000 from the contest’s leading partners, Visa and PrivatBank, were awarded to Nadiia Dobrovolska
• Second place went to Hrechanovska Khrystiana 
• Third place was awarded to Anna Kuzmenko

Ірина Адоніна, Христіана Гречановська, Надія Добровольська

“For us, supporting talent and developing entrepreneurship in Ukraine are among our core values. We are thrilled to contribute to the growth of Ukrainian fashion and young designers at the start of their journey. Through our partnership, Visa and PrivatBank aim to inspire the participants to be confident in their professional path, pursue their goals, and add new marks of Ukrainian success stories on the world map,” noted Dmytro Musiienko, Member of the Management Board of PrivatBank.

“For PrivatBank, innovation, support for talent, new technologies, and emerging trends are the foundation for the development of both the bank and the entire modern financial ecosystem. That is why, together with Visa, we not only launched a new direction at Ukrainian Fashion Week — Financial Fashion, but also joined the All-Ukrainian Contest for Young Fashion Designers.

We support the growth of Ukrainian fashion because, to us, fashion is not only about clothing — just as finance is not only about numbers. It is always about confidence, style, and responsibility for the way the world sees Ukraine. That is why it is especially important for us to stand behind those who are shaping a new Ukrainian fashion and creating a new face of our culture.

We believe this support will help the winners of the contest walk their professional path with greater confidence and build the very future our country is fighting for,” — comments Iryna Kostohryz, Head of Premium Products Department at PrivatBank.

The winners of the 2nd and 3rd prizes received grants for further professional development from Iryna Adonina, a founder of the United For Freedom Foundation.

“The future of Ukraine is especially important to me as a woman and a mother. I feel that my mission is to support the younger generation, because they are the ones shaping the ‘tomorrow’ of our country. I want talented Ukrainian youth to know: their work has value, their voice matters, and their dreams can come true right here, in their homeland.

For two consecutive years, my foundation has been providing grants to young designers, and for me, this is more than just support. It is faith that the fashion industry is one of Ukraine’s powerful voices in the world. And I want our talents to have every opportunity to flourish on the Ukrainian fashion stage,” shared Iryna Adonina, founder of United For Freedom.

This year, 10 finalists presented collections inspired by the artistic legacy of Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko, prominent Ukrainian collectors and philanthropists. The designers developed their concepts during a creative residency curated by Ivan Frolov.

The winners of “Look into the Future. The Khanenko Museum Collection” were selected by an expert jury of renowned Ukrainian designers and members of the Ukrainian Fashion Council: Svitlana Bevza, Iryna Karavay, Lilia Litkovska, Lilia Pustovit, and Ksenia Schnaider.

The final was attended by leading designers and members of the Ukrainian Fashion Council, including Ruslan Baginskyi, Katya Silchenko, Artem Klimchuk, Nadya Dzyak, and Volodymyr Podolian, as well as representatives of key Ukrainian and international media.

The models’ looks for the finalists’ collections were created with the support of the contest’s beauty partner, LAMEL cosmetics.

A video diary of the creative residency, along with other materials, is available on the official “Look into the Future” Instagram page.