Legatum
SS 2025
During the 55thUkrainian Fashion Week, season SS 2025 the HELENA ROMANOVA brand presented collection Legatum (lat. legacy) of body accessories.
The collection includes headdresses, tops, neck accessories and transforming dresses, made of lacy metal details, chains and natural stones.
Pieces of the collection are made in the colors of only two metals - bronze and gold, except small number of decorative elements. Olena Romanova, the designer of the brand, embodied in it artistic images inspired by Crimean and Turkish jewelry, armor and decorative elements from expositions of the historical museums in Bakhchisaray, Istanbul and Vienna, visited in different times; the final push to create the collection was a result of visiting exhibition "Treasures of Crimea. Return" in Kyiv, during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. The very name of the collection – “legacy” - indicates its division into two lines: bronze - an artistic interpretation of historical artifacts, and gold - their reinterpretation, modernization and implementation by the author from the point of her own experience and emotions, including from the image of the heroine of an animated novel " Jibaro" directed by Alberto Mielgo from the anthology "Love, Death and Robots".
The collection pieces are closer to art objects, than apparel, that, however, may serve as an addition to both formal and informal evening looks.