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This year's Best Fashion Awards ceremony took place on May 22 at the Fairmont Grand Hotel. Buyers, celebrities, fashion editors and critics gathered to commemorate Ukraine's best fashion industry professionals.

Designer Ksenia Kireeva, famous for using leather in her collections, was named the Discovery of the Year. 

Natalia Kamenska
and Olesya Kononova won the Best Accessories Designer for the second time in a row. In 2012, they also were named The Best Women’s Clothing Designers. The designers produce minimalistic clothes in their rendition urban style reflections.

The Best Fashion Statement award went to Vladimir Podolyan, a women’s clothes designer. Socialite and TV host Maria Yefrosinina received the Inspiration Award. 

Editor-in-chief of Elle Ukraine Sonia Zabuga got the award for her “outstanding contribution to the development of Ukrainian fashion”. 

Young designer Artem Klimchuk won in the Best Menswear Designer category. And Svetlana Bevza won the Best Women’s Clothing Designer award. She also was nominated as Best Accessory Designer and competed for the Best Fashion Statement award.

Best Fashion Awards is the most prestigoius fashion awards event in Ukraine. It was founded by Ukrainian Fashion Week and Zefir magazine in 2009.