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Evening outfit, decorated with Ukrainian embroidery. Designed by Eugenie Triska OUR DESIGNERS Fashion is an important fa c tor in the life of every woman. The Ukrainian woman is highly fashion-conscious and keenly ap preciates sty le and beauty. It is not surprising therefore, to note th a t we have some highly talent ed Ukrainian fashion designers. One of them is Eugenie Tris ka, now a fashion designer w ith the Brooks fashion firm in New York. She studied pattern-m ak ing, modeling and designing at the Maria Titze-Reder Schule in Vienna and took courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology in N ew York. She got her start w ith the world-famous Main- bocher salon. Later she work ed as a supervisor for the award w inning designer Charles James. She also worked as an assistan t designer for Nilo de Paul in the fashion firm of Diana Thomas. “Fashion designing is a world of hard work, endless confer ences, tension and intrigue”, says Miss Triska, “but it has its lighter moments. The m ost re warding thin g is creating a beau tifu l fashion. The designing, th e selection of fabrics and trim m ings, the fittin g and final al terations are m ilestones of this procedure.” Miss Triska speaks h ighly of her teachers. Her favorite was Charles James, a great designer, who gave her “invaluable train ing in fashion designing.” Am ong his custom ers were act resses Rosalind Russell and E li zabeth Taylor, both of whom were often served by Miss Tris ka. Her recent achievem ent was th e costum es for th e U k rainian N ew Theater. For Lesia Ukrainka’s “Kaminnyi Hospo- dar” (The Stonem aster) Miss Triska designed 23 women's cos tum es and the men's capes. She personally shopped for fabrics and trim m ings and supervised the sew ing and fittin g o f the cos tum es. Audiences in Toronto, D etroit, Chicago and Rochester have heaped compliments on th e Spanish-inspired gowns and capes worn by th e cast. Another designer started out w ith a bikini. K nitting bikinis was the pastim e of Nadia Bart- kiw. A fter her own bikini at tracted attention at the seashore Miss Bartkiw found someone w ith a k n ittin g m achine and sold her f is t dozen of bathing suits. It was her fir s t step to a de sign ing career. Selling bathing suits at Bloom ingdale’s Miss Bartkiw got an idea for manu facturing clothes. She le ft her job as collection supervisor for hospital accounts and devoted all her tim e to designing and over seeing production. She organized the production som ew hat on the basis of a cottage industry. “I found a whole group of Colom bian women who sew beautiful ly and who all happen to be mar ried to Ukrainian m en,” she said. She designs dresses and gives them to women on th e Lower E a st Side to make. It is tirin g to run back and forth on buses or in ta x is w ith patterns and the m aterial. But it seem s to work out, and Miss Bartkiw can now boast of 1,500 dresses, gowns and separates, including her fir s t m ajor success — a version of the Mexican wedding dress. Miss Bartkiw does not con sider herself a designer. But she has been interested in fashion since her childhood, when she and her fam ily lived in a dis placed persons’ camp in Ger many. “We used to g et those green army sw eaters from American relief organizations and we found th a t if you boiled them , th e y ’d turn into a beauti ful turquoise shade. W e’d boil them , then rip them apart and knit our own sty le s.” Thus she learned k n ittin g and remodeling as a child. Her current project was in spired by traditional Ukrainian and Indian designs. A small Uk rainian collection is being read- HALLIE ЖИТТЯ — ЛЮТИЙ, 1967 17
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