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Is Ze’ev Volkov The Antidote To Modern Tourism?

The expert guide to Jewish Ukraine says it's not the sites that are important, but how we reflect on them.  If you want to learn...

Ukrainian Fashion Bonanza Dispatch 7: Space and Sequins

It’s a wrap for the Ukrainian fashion season. This is the seventh and final in a series of fashion show dispatches by Maria Romanenko...

Daria Shapovalova: Technology Will Save Fashion

Daria Shapovalova is set on expanding the boundaries of the Ukrainian fashion scene. First, she put Ukraine on the fashion world’s map as a...

The Constant Surfer

In New York you're always from somewhere else. When people ask me my provenance, I tell them I'm from the South. The South of...

Making Folk Culture Fashionable Again

Tetyana Solovey wears many hats. She’s the editor of Vogue Ukraine, a fashion writer and a part-time PR agent for the Ivan Honchar Museum...

A Painter In The Kitchen

Aleksander Yourz, the chef of Odessa’s Bernardazzi restaurant, is bringing painting to his kitchen and creating a new culinary style known as “Gastropunk". A...

The Bessarabian Night Before Christmas

What is the first thing you need to know about the Christmas feast in Bessarabia? Despite the region’s multiculturalism, Bessarabian Christmas is mostly an...

Mititei: Small Heroes Of A Big Culinary Region

If you spend any amount of time traveling in Bessarabia you will definitely see this dish on almost every menu, alongside placintas, mamalyga and...

Kiev Fashion Days Dispatch: Day 1

This is the first of a series of dispatches by Maria Romanenko from Kiev Fashion Days. Each day, she will publish an account of...

Fashion Designer Masha Reva Returns To Making Art

The Odessa-born artist and fashion designer bears the famous last name of her father, the accomplished architect and sculptor Mikhail Reva. However, her breakout...