{"id":40591,"date":"2016-11-18T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=40591"},"modified":"2016-11-18T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:41:33","slug":"ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/","title":{"rendered":"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Vetements and Balenciaga&#8217;s stylist Lotta Volkova Adam, to menswear designer, Gosha Rubchinskiy, it seems that fashion cannot get enough of post-Soviet style.<br \/>\nWe talk to Martyna Sowik a Polish designer who has caught our attention with her first line entitled &#8216;United States of Poland&#8217;, the newest designer raiding her heritage and reappropriating Eastern-Bloc sportswear for the style set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sowikmartyna.jpg\" alt=\"sowikmartyna\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What is the concept behind the collection?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I\u2018ve been interested in &#8220;glocation&#8221; (a combination of globalization and locality), social deconstruction and I wanted to visualize this with clothing. My starting point was the Kappa logo, it reminds me of a couple talking on their mobile phones \u2013 a\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">metaphor for modern relationships that lack in &#8220;real life&#8221; contact. \u00a0I also looked at a series of performances from Marina Abramovic and Ulay. My hoodies and gloves that literally join bring people together.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">My work is a melancholic, sometimes pretentious critique of the harsh Polish reality, accompanied with a large dose of self-irony and humor.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sowik2.jpg\" alt=\"sowik2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What is it like to be a designer in Poland today?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">People think that Polish fashion is undeveloped which is frustrating. There are a lot of talented people, but it&#8217;s not really the Polish way to come out and show-off your work. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I try to focus on the benefits of working in a market that is not saturated with young talent like London or Paris. Poland is a place with soul and ambiguous energy, even though it is sometimes brutal and ugly. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sowik3.jpg\" alt=\"sowik3\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What inspires your work?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I get inspired by people and their problems; my friends, random people I have met on the street, or on Instagram. I also draw from club culture and electronic music. Everything I do is related to music, sometimes indirectly, sometimes explicitly; without it I can not imagine my work. I like to think about clothes only as a medium to a wider expression and I would like my fashion to be presented as a sensory experience accompanied by sound and image. I also practice painting, experimental textiles and video making so all these coincide with each other in my work.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Some of the T-shirts are printed with &#8220;DEPRESJA 2016&#8221; (DEPRESSION 2016) graphic. What does this mean?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The focus of the collection is the problems that face our generation. It&#8217;s inspired by Ken In the Jowitt&#8217;s provocative book, New World Disorder, everyone should read it. The picture of the Hotel Centrum that was knocked down in 2015 is a symbol of the old PRL (Polish People&#8217;s Republic).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sowik.jpg\" alt=\"sowik\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What do you think about current trend for Post-soviet aesthetics in fashion?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Fashion needs sincerity or at least create a pretense of authenticity, The new is the old; the new is forgotten.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I believe the blow of Eastern wind has refreshed fashion. I&#8217;m really glad that Polish and Ukrainian fashion designers can be finally recognized.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sowik5.jpg\" alt=\"sowik5\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>What are your plans?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I plan to move to Berlin. I want to develop constantly; that&#8217;s my only framework. When it comes to specific plans it is difficult to say&#8230; but I think that the upcoming months will be crucial for me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post-Soviet fashion star you need to know <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10172],"tags":[6733,6734,6423],"class_list":["post-40591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berlin","category-film","tag-martyna-sowik","tag-polish-fashion","tag-post-soviet"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Post-Soviet fashion star you need to know\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. This creativity manifests itself in SLEEK\u2019s quarterly print publication, digital and social media channels.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"de\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"de\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/\",\"name\":\"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1fd4c1b41c96eff389e4781115613a68\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"de\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1fd4c1b41c96eff389e4781115613a68\",\"name\":\"sleek\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"de\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28a91a7b03694a9860c1590004521e06b91644c079476028047b1a7f5e3eb6e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28a91a7b03694a9860c1590004521e06b91644c079476028047b1a7f5e3eb6e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"sleek\"},\"description\":\"She\u2019s currently writing her thesis on immersive installation and has a soft spot for techno, existential art memes and nineties sunglasses.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/author\/sleek\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/","og_locale":"de_DE","og_type":"article","og_title":"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style","og_description":"The Post-Soviet fashion star you need to know","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/","og_site_name":"Sleek Magazine","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/","article_published_time":"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sleekmag","twitter_site":"@sleekmag","twitter_misc":{"Verfasst von":"sleek","Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit":"3\u00a0Minuten"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/","name":"Schlankes Magazin","description":"Sleek ist Deutschlands f\u00fchrendes unabh\u00e4ngiges Medienhaus\/Marke f\u00fcr Kreativit\u00e4t und Innovation mit Sitz in Berlin, der kreativen Hauptstadt der Welt. Diese Kreativit\u00e4t manifestiert sich in der viertelj\u00e4hrlich erscheinenden Print-Publikation, den digitalen und Social-Media-Kan\u00e4len von SLEEK.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"de"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"de","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/","name":"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00","dateModified":"2016-11-18T16:41:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1fd4c1b41c96eff389e4781115613a68"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"de","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/article\/ones-watch-upcoming-polish-designer-martyna-sowik\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Martyna Sowik on fashion&#039;s love of Post-Soviet style"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1fd4c1b41c96eff389e4781115613a68","name":"schlank","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"de","@id":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28a91a7b03694a9860c1590004521e06b91644c079476028047b1a7f5e3eb6e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28a91a7b03694a9860c1590004521e06b91644c079476028047b1a7f5e3eb6e9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"sleek"},"description":"Zurzeit schreibt sie ihre Doktorarbeit \u00fcber immersive Installationen und hat ein Faible f\u00fcr Techno, existentielle Kunstmemes und Sonnenbrillen aus den Neunzigern.","url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/author\/sleek\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}