LITKOVSKA Spring-Summer 2026 "STRICHA"

This season, LITKOVSKA presents “STRICHA” — a collection about encounter, transformation, and what remains when we are simply seen. In one of Ukraine’s dialects, stricha means “an encounter” — a word that became the starting point for Liliia Litkovska’s Spring–Summer 2027 collection. An encounter often begins with a surface — a glance, a gesture, a first impression — before revealing something deeper. The show takes place at Café Beaubourg, facing the Centre Pompidou — long known as a meeting point for the city’s artists and writers — recreating the atmosphere of a casual encounter over morning coffee. For LITKOVSKA, an encounter is never simply about two people occupying the same space. It is a moment that can strip away what is constructed — the roles we perform, the identities we present, the surfaces we use to navigate the world and reveal what remains underneath. The collection draws on Borys Kosarev, one of the founding figures of the Ukrainian avant-garde, and in particular his series of collage portraits and masks — faces and forms shattered into geometric planes. Rather than illustrating Kosarev’s work, Liliia Litkovska builds his method directly into the construction of the garments, translating his fragmented faces into appliqué, collage and prints. Through the STRICHA show, LITKOVSKA brings Kosarev’s vision to Paris, creating the encounter between his work and the city that never took place in his lifetime. The same language of fragmentation runs through the