Anastasia Chatzka, one of the city’s most prolific fashion designers, will close her self-named Ukrainian Village boutique this weekend after four years. Chatzka, a Reader Best of Chicago pick in 2015 and 2016, will be selling her designs and the fixtures in her meticulously decorated storefront at 60 to 70 percent off throughout the weekend, from noon to 7 Saturday, then at a closing party from 11 AM to 4 PM Sunday, March 12, at 1001 N. Damen.
Where do you see the future of fashion going? This is such a loaded question, but in short I see it becoming very personal and specific to the individual. I have been designing and creating custom looks for years, and the demand for customization is outweighing regular retail. This has inspired my new direction towards the modular custom concept and demi-couture.
You said you’ll be reopening with a new concept in the spring. Could you further describe this concept? I call it modular fashion. We’ll have muslims of sleeves, bodices, dresses, skirts, etc, made in size runs. You’ll be able to try different combinations of these depending on what you’re looking for. We then fit it and customize it to your liking. It really streamlines the custom-garment process, which is what I love about it. That process is just normally so timeconsuming and costly, but this will be different. Of course we can make pretty much anything you want, but the modular part of what I’m going to do is what really excites me.
