Happiness, disbelief and happiness! It was really a difficult time, full of sacrifices, hours of work and sleepless nights … but it was worth it! On the one hand, I feel fulfillment and satisfaction, because it all happened in a month, and with my first collection. On the other hand, I now have even more desire – and most importantly – energy to work more and achieve even more.<\/p>\n
For me personally the greatest stress was the fact that models usually have quite large feet, and shoes from my collection are 39 in size. Before the shows very often there were emergency situations where I needed to react in a blink of an eye. This, however, taught me to build a resistance to stress and convinced me that problems that cannot be solved do not exist.
\nDuring the last month I was one of the 10 finalists of the Fashion Designer Awards during which I received an award from Mrs. Gosia Baczy\u0144ska and a special prize from the Co Jest Grane24 portal. To my mind, the competition itself was as a very well organized event during which I met fantastic people from the industry. All of the different parts during the whole competition allowed us to get to know each other better and due to that, we keep in touch on a regular basis.
\nIn the competition named Trendy City of Rzesz\u00f3w I took first place and so far it has been my greatest success. Winning the competion gave me the opportunity to present my collection at Fashionweek in Milan already taking place in September of this year. I cannot describe what kind of happiness this is because a few weeks ago it was a dream for me, and today it is reality. What’s more – I stood on the podium together with my friend, that’s why it’s a double happiness for us, which we celebrated with the party till dawn (laughs).
\nRecently I also took part in the OFF Fashion competition in Kielce, where I reached the semi-final with my collection. It was another great experience for me and a great opportunity to meet up with people I met during the two previous competitions. When the same faces are seen time and again, the competition ceases to be a competitive in nature and becomes a fashion meeting of creators and young designers from all over Poland.<\/p>\n
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The Arbo\u015delo collection during the Fashion Designer Award finale \/ photo Filip Okopny<\/p>\n
The collection you created is your debut. Tell us about it and the impressions of the show!<\/strong><\/p>\n My collection under the name Arbo\u015delo is a sensual fashion proposal for confident women who value the classics with a touch of brave avant-garde. I drew inspiration from the surrounding nature, hence the name, which in Esperanto means Tree of Bark, which also refers to the place of my origin, Podlasie. To design the silhouettes, I carried out an analysis of the bark structure, which I divided into constituent factors and simplified to a modular design. From the created element of shapes I chose forms and lines, which I transferred to the collection in the form of characteristic cuts. The collection also refers to the layering of the bark, through contrasts in the thicknesses of the materials used with specific, heavy structures in combination with translucent, light fabrics,\u00a0while maintaining the colors corresponding to the nature in the forests. Projekty Magdaleny na backstage’u \/zdj. Litwi\u0144czuk<\/em><\/p>\n You have just finished\u00a0studying at MSKPU, and your already have so many impressions. What classes were your favorites?<\/strong><\/p>\n were your favorites?<\/p>\n I definitely liked the design of clothing the most. Particularly led by Mrs. Weronika Pietras and Mr. Andrzej Foder. In my opinion, these were the most creative classes,\u00a0in which\u00a0we processed all possible topics – from\u00a0 ready to wear accessories , to mega abstract designs. Often the additional\u00a0benefit of the classes was their interesting form, among other things was viewing and analysis of fashion shows or putting clothes on mannequins. What are your plans for the future – furthering your education, setting up a company, working an internship?<\/strong><\/p>\n Recently, I have not been planning too much into the future because of how fast things were moving. For sure I will want to take advantage of the internship opportunities in the studio of Mrs. Gosia Baczy\u0144ska, from which I received a distinction at the Fashion Designer Awards. Later on , I would definitely like to focus on creating my own projects and collections.<\/p>\n Magdalena’s projects on backstage \/ photo Litwi\u0144czuk<\/p>\n Who would you recommend MSKPU to, now, after finishing school?<\/strong><\/p>\n I would recommend MSKPU\u00a0 to fashion enthusiasts,\u00a0however ones who already have a college degree\u00a0with an artistic and technical\u00a0background . Of course they need to love design at the same time. Due to the above mentioned, they will already\u00a0have a\u00a0foundation and open minds, and\u00a0at MSKPU they will be able to develop and improve their design skills, which I am probably a living example of\u00a0– my hobby may soon become my job.<\/p>\n Thank you for the interview!<\/strong><\/p>\n Interview: Joanna Porayska<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Magdalena Kurnicka \/ photo Kumar Photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are often accusations that there are no jobs after art schools. We decided to offer a counter argument to this rumor – this is how #MSKPU Career was created – interviews with graduates of the International School of Fashion and Costume Design … who are doing very well on the market. Today, we are talking with a special girl, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[14,46,25,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskpu.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe commission approved of my collection and assessed my work at 5. During the defense I heard very favorable comments, for example that my collection is very mature. During the presentation out of the corner of my eye I saw some people taking pictures of my portfolio, which greatly encouraged me. We could say it was the wind behind my wings. Others, gladly tried on my projects and due to that the defense itself did not give me the jitters.
\nThe work of other students is hard to judge because it all depends on your taste, nevertheless I saw some nice collections. Objectively looking at all of the collections my favorite\u00a0one was Contorno, designed by Sonia Chru\u015bci\u0144ska. I think that her\u00a0projects were very good, open and interesting, which was confirmed in one of the competitions, where Sonia took the third place and will appear with her collection at Fashionweek in Lviv.
\nThe diploma show, although unfortunatley not my final one, was a bit stressful because it was my first show in my life in front of\u00a0an audience. Fortunately, everything worked out well.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mskpu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/3.jpg\")
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\nDo you have any artistic experience? Where do you\u00a0draw your\u00a0inspiration from?
\nI graduated with a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, and\u00a0as of\u00a0the first year of my studies I took part in various competitions. The first competition and at the same time a winning one was the gate project in which the prize was its implementation in real sizes at the Bia\u0142ystok University of Technology.\u00a0 The following\u00a0important achievement for me in artistic terms was the nomination of my diploma thesis entitled “Fashion Initiator on S\u0142odowa Island in Wroclaw” to the prestigious SARP (Polish Architects Association) award Z. Zawistowski. While studying at MSKPU, I became\u00a0the winner in the competition for the design of a bag dedicated to the Japanese market, and my backpack was presented at the Design Fair in Tokyo.
\nIt is difficult to clearly define where I get my inspiration. I can say that everything from the world around us. Many times, as in the diploma collection,\u00a0I am\u00a0inspired by nature and people, and sometimes even by the science fiction world.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mskpu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2.jpg\")
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