“New Polish Fashion: A Chronicle of Deep Feelings” is the first exhibition of twenty-first-century Polish fashion on such a sweeping scale. It celebrates works by more than fifty designers drawn from the museum’s collection of contemporary fashion. The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź is the first museum in Poland to build a collection of this kind, which they have been developing for seven years now. Both of these pioneering undertakings grow out of a need to document a phenomenon that forms an important part of cultural heritage. For years, it has remained out of reach for Polish museums.

From the outset, we moved away from thinking about fashion solely in terms of trends or chronological sequences. The organisers were interested in fashion as a means of telling stories about history, memory and emotion. For them, “Polishness” becomes the key category, understood as a set of experiences and cultural contexts that shape our identity.

The exhibition features works previously shown at London Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week and Berlin Fashion Week. Their designers are graduates of leading art and fashion schools in Poland and abroad, including the Institute of Clothing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, the Faculty of Fashion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Central Saint Martins, the University of Westminster, Universität der Künste, the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design. Among the people and brands featured in the exhibition are Acephala, Arkadius, Tomasz Armada, Gosia Baczyńska, Maja Bączyńska, Bizuu, Magda Butrym, Body Holes, Chylak, Jan Chodorowicz, Dreamland Syndicate, Irina Dzhus, Jacek Gleba, Kardasjan, Kpodonou, Tasha Katsuba, Marcin “Kitty” Kossakowski, Krysvinczi, Kasia Kucharska, Kreist, Ania Kuczyńska, Kust, Le Petit Trou, Wiktoria Łaskawiec, Maldoror, Mapaya, Marios Dik (Karol Radziszewski), Melancholia, MISBHV, MMC, Vanity Nap, Orska, Tomasz Ossoliński, Nawara, Vanda Novak, Paprocki & Brzozowski, Pat Guzik, Polygon, Mariusz Przybylski, Marcell Pustul, Rad Duet, including costumes designed in collaboration with the drag queens Twoja Stara and Shady Lady, Radek Anais Laró, R.Swiader, UEG, Uta Sienkiewicz, Stettin, Monika Surowiec, Michał Szulc, Vasina, Kamil Wesołowski, Western Affair, Tomasz Wichrowski, Zwyrtech and Mikołaj Żurek.

The exhibition also features Black Reliefs / Black Reliefs II (1963), a tapestry by Magdalena Abakanowicz, as well as Needle / Nadel by Paulina Ołowska, from the collection of Katarzyna Jordan.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated book, “New Polish Fashion from the Collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź”, published in Polish and English and featuring a selection of essays on contemporary Polish fashion.

The museum is also preparing a programme of unexpected events through which, following the exhibition’s themes, they try to touch on the sensitive points of the present. The exhibition also has its own scent, namely natural botanical perfumes.

The exhibition is available from 13.06.2026 to 03.05.2027.

Read more: https://cmwl.pl/public/informacje/nowa-moda-polska-kronika-glebokich-uczuc,491