Style.Uz Art Week is the most high-profile fashion and art event in Central Asia, which has been recognized as one of the best events showcasing the entire diversity of traditional and contemporary Central Asian art, culture, music and fashion. Showcases of national clothes by local designers held as part of Style.Uz have become inspirations behind collections by fashion labels such as Gucci, Missoni, John Galliano, Oscar de la Renta, Christian Dior, Gianfranco Ferre, Ralph Lauren and Aldo among others.
Style.Uz project is a crossroads of arts, traditions and modernity. Now in its sixth year, the Week impresses with its scale and dynamics, variety of its events and attracts increasing attention from the world’s most famous figures. The concept of the Art Week is completely different from that of fashion-week, because it includes painting and antiques exhibitions, biennale, a cinema forum, theater plays, auctions, presentations, a National Dress Festival, fashion shows by Uzbek and foreign designers, master classes by experts from various fields of arts as well as concerts.
Over 100 guests, including prominent fashion designers, owners of fashion and jewelry labels, big names in fashion, culture and art, chief editors of international fashion magazines, representatives of leading media, showbiz stars from Austria, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Previous Weeks have been attended by the likes of Jose Carreras, Julio Iglesias, Sting, Montserrat Caballe, Rod Stewart, David and Katie Guetta, Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele (Chopard), Fawaz Gruosi (de Grisogono), Takada Kenzo, designers Pascal Morabito, John Ribbe (France), Basso & Brooke (UK), Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Valentin Yudashkin, Igor Chapurin, Masha Tsigal, Alena Akhmadullina, Julia Dalakyan, Denis Simachev, Helen Yarmak, Vardui Nazaryan (Russia), Domenico Vacca (Italy), Fernando Lemoniez, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada (Spain), Chisato Tsumori, Naoshi Sawayanagi, Norio Surikabe (Japan), representatives of top fashion houses such as Oscar de la Renta (USA), Valentino, DSQUARED2, Salvatore Ferragamo, Brioni, MaxMara (Italy), Sonia Rykiel, Smalto, Féraud, Inès de la Fressange, Guy Laroche, Revillon, Balmain (France), Wolford (Austria) and Sisi Wasabi. Besides, Art Week events are attended by nearly 10,000 visitors, including Uzbek students and culture and arts professionals.
Such a high rank international participation and support more than anything else have inspired young talents for future growth and success. This is the core of the Week, its ultimate goal – to motivate and inspire. The Art Week is a great opportunity for the Week’s young participants and all who work in the project – photographers, musicians, producers and many others, to show off themselves. It is an opportunity to create and to be seen, an opportunity for them to become a personality they want to be tomorrow - today. Providing a platform for young fashion and art professionals as well as our traditional craftsmen the Week gives them the possibility for further development within the fashion world. Young talents support, providing grants for textile and weaving masters, who build their activities on reviving of ancient professional techniques – is what Style.Uz is making its main efforts in. And, what is probably the most important, young participants, grant recipients, designers of national dress and other participants, who have the possibility to attend all events at Art Week, have a chance to exchange ideas and learn skills from world famous and established professionals.
The event is covered annually by over 200 local and international media organizations including BBC, CNN, Euronews, Fashion TV, TV-5 Monde, Paris Mode TV, TV France 3 (France), RTR, Informational Channel “Vesti” (Russia), Society-TV and Society Magazine, PULS4 TV (Austria), TRT (Turkey), LTV-7 (Latvia), high profile magazines as Time (US), L’Officiel (France, Russia, Latvia), Fashion, IO Donna (Italy), Diplomatic News, Diva International (Switzerland), Les Echos Serie-limitée, Gala (France), Capital, El Mundo (Spain), Citizen K, Harper’s Bazaar, Menu Magazine, Eurasia, Za Rubejom, Hello!, Hello! ICONS, Week-end (Russia), Shashati (Egypt), newspapers such as Kronenzeitung (Austria), Women's Wear Daily (Japan), information agencies France Press (France) and also internet resources such as Fashion Wire Daily, Wireimage, Getty Images, TheFashionTime.com, StyleDigest.ru etc.
Being also directed at international cooperation in different arts spheres development and creative personalities support, the Style.Uz Art Week is organized with the support from significant local and international institutions, public organizations.
