The Latvian fashion and design pop-up opened this week and will run until May 7. home of Lithuanian design LOCALS.LT. Pop-up like never before - 20 of the strongest Latvian design names present their work here, including Baiba Ladiga, Keta Gutmane, Amoralle, Yayoi, Dace Bahmann, Talented, One Wolf and others.
The design of the neighboring country also attracted the attention of well-known people from Vilnius, the pop-up opening of Latvian designers was visited by Žilvinas Grigaitis, Jolanta Talaikytė, Giedrius Paulauskas, Kristina Kruopenytė, Eduardas Fedotovas, Rūta Mackevičiūtė, Thomas Bara, Kristina Lisauskė, Edita Vygelytė, Giedrė Apanavičienė.
The Latvian fashion and design pop-up store was located at LOCALS.LT - the house of Lithuanian design, uniting the best Lithuanian designers and Lithuanian brands under its roof.
The organizers of the pop-up - Latvian Investment and Development Agency and Locals.lt - are happy with the successful start of the project and the extraordinary opportunity given to Vilnius residents to get to know the conceptual designers and brands of the neighboring country and to purchase their products.
Keta Gutmanė, who visited Lithuania not for the first time, was happy that although the Latvian designer community lacks activity in communication and cooperation in Latvia, such events - a great opportunity to get acquainted with the work of both Latvian colleagues and designers from neighboring countries.
Designers presenting the latest collections of clothes, jewelry, and handbags came to Vilnius especially for this opening night, so the guests of the opening had an extraordinary opportunity to chat and discuss with Latvian designers, both well-known and newly discovered.
Baiba Ladiga, one of the most prominent Latvian fashion and design pop-up participants, who has created fashion illustrations for fashion giants such as Vogue (China), Shanghai Fashion Week, Takashimaya Department Store (China), Pasaitaga, Euroskor, etc., April 26 . LOCALS.LT will give a lecture "Fashion Illustrators, styles and possibilities" and conduct a creative workshop "Fashion illustration - portrait using different tools".
Latvian fashion and design pop-up April 20 - Maywill sing 5 p. In Vilnius, Locals.lt Lithuanian design at home, Gedimina Ave. 9, 3rd floor.
Latvian fashion and design pop-up is one of the "Discover Latvia" events taking place from April 20 to May 7 in Vilnius. The organizers invite you to actively participate in the events and get to know neighboring Latvia.
Jeļena Markūne, head of the representative office of the Latvian Investment and Development Agency in Lithuania, presented the events of the "Discover Latvia" days until May 5: "At this year's events, we will present Latvia through food, culture, design, music, business. The annual "Nameja Balva" awards ceremony took place already today, where awards were presented to Latvian and Lithuanian companies that showed the best results. Also tonight, the "Senses of Latvia" dinner will be held, it will present the capital of European gastronomy, which this year has become the Riga - Gauja region. I invite you to all other Latvian Days events, which will take place until May 7."
