Wiktoria Rybak - Product Manager W The Odder Side

I think that for people taking up a position like me, there are two most important moments in each season. The first is, of course, the premiere of the collection, which I always look forward to. This is the moment when I finally catch my breath, stop and with great satisfaction I admire what has been created inside the company in recent months, with the involvement of the entire team.

However, when each collection enters into force, I have long been at a different moment of design. At the time when the autumn-winter collection has its premiere, I am already involved in creating another spring and summer collection.

What's more interesting, the materials for the collection I are currently working on, I watched and chosen at fabric fair that took place a year ago. The fact that the fashion industry is working at a dizzying pace is known for a long time. It looks the same when choosing the materials I deal with in The Odder Side. It is also similar with this as fabric and knitwear producers present their work. We always watch spring-summer collections at events taking place in winter. However, we watch the autumn and winter collection in the summer, in the greatest heat.

In this way, we reach the second most important stage for me in the fashion world, i.e. trips to the textile fair. This is where it all starts, all the creation of the collection. You just have to be here, because there is real magic here. It is at the fair that the process of creating the collection begins - from the selection of fabrics that will become the base of our projects, to inspiring with new trends. It is not only an exciting place because of the presentations of fabric collection and knitwear by material suppliers from around the world. It is also a package of vast visual experience, because nowhere will we see more creative people from the fashion industry gathered in one place. Unless on Fashion Week, but let's make an appointment, everything starts with us. All people dressing others on Fashion Week, they are here and
They choose materials in which they will dress them in a year. Also from every fair we return not only with thousands of meters of materials, but also with a lot of inspiration. In addition, the fair organizers have recently changed their approach to the fashion industry and organize many lectures and discussion panels that take place in the same place as the collection of the collection. It is interesting to observe how different these events are every time and in which way the fashion industry goes.

Personally, I have my two favorite places to which I go with Agata Pągowska (also a product manager in The Odder Side), without interruption for over 5 years. This is of course Paris, with the iconic Premiere Vision and Milan fair with the Milano Unica fair. These great events take place twice a year, adequate to fashion seasons. A week after week, all fashion buyers travel between these two fashion capitals. This is a good travel rodeo which, apart from being exciting, of course, it can also be exhausting. The presentations of the collection take place in large market halls, in which everyone will always find something for themselves. Getting to know the collections of producers we work with, usually takes us two or three full days. We spend them in full, watching materials and touching them or choosing colors. Often, after two weeks spent at the fair, we return just as excited as well as perverse. But maybe this is due to our perfectionism, which we follow at our choices. I hope you see it in our collections, and we are looking forward to the next trips that will allow us to discover new inspirations and continue our passion
creating unique projects for you.