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A bold voice in the evolving world of fashion. Unique Fashion Show unites couture, AI innovation, and cultural dialogue in New York City, creating a visionary stage that redefines the future of global style.
Updated 12:16 pm EST, February 20, 2026
Published 12:04 pm EST, February 20, 2026
Photo Courtesy: Unique Fashion Foundation
Special Thanks: Ekaterina da Silva
A bold voice in the evolving world of fashion. Unique Fashion Show unites couture, AI innovation, and cultural dialogue in New York City, creating a visionary stage that redefines the future of global style.
Updated 12:16 pm EST, February 20, 2026
Published 12:04 pm EST, February 20, 2026
Photo Courtesy: Unique Fashion Foundation
Special Thanks: Ekaterina da Silva
On January 31, 2026, in Manhattan, New York, Unique Fashion Show presented its 6th global edition of its innovative physical and digital show. It was a frigid day in the city, but not so in the Upper East Side at the Park Avenue Christian Church where the runway took place. Set in the dramatic French Gothic Revival architecture with its 70-foot spire, pointed arch, rib vaults, and Louis Comfort Tiffany stained-glass windows, the collections took center stage amongst the soaring heights and contrasting grey schist stone of the church.
Unique Fashion Show NYC 2026 backstage photos.
The show was an intersection of fashion, art, music, technology, sustainability, and social impact. At its core, Unique Fashion Show aims to be an influential, innovative and defining force within the global fashion industry by being a pioneer that shapes the future of fashion, and one that bridges the gap and opens the door for designers to global markets and industry professionals. At the center were their physical and metaverse digital shows.
Unique Fashion Show NYC 2026 surprised the guests showcasing brands with international fashion houses.
This edition’s physical lineup featured seven international designers who showcased their collections. Minerva Paris opened the shows bringing its signature celebratory expression of art, individuality and creativity through pieced together and painted leathers, metallics, fur, zippers and mixed materials.
Victoria Trading Company out of New Orleans, USA, followed with her curation of vintage pieces that have been beautifully preserved from bygone eras.
Headlining the first segment of runway shows was Georgian designer M.G. Megi Gabunia who presented her M.G. GEO GENES collection of futuristic meets tradition in her cutting-edge innovative and visionary silhouettes that push boundaries as displayed through her bold and powerful lineup of designs.
Victoria Mozgovaya, based in Los Angeles, brought her distinctive voice of inspiration to empower self-expression through color and hand painted one-of-a-kind pieces.
Generosa Magsarili of The House of Magsarili presented a beautiful display and testimony of grace and new life spanning the journey of faith, healing, restoration, forgiveness and proclaiming the ultimate sacrifice of Love for us.
AH by Anna Harutyunyan out of Armenia exhibited her artistic vision through an expression of culture, form and symbolism. Closing out the show was Ipek Kiziltan of Ipek Label out of Germany bathing us in elegance and luxury with her couture line of intricately detailed gowns built on love and passion.
Their metaverse digital portion featured a union of AI-driven collections by independent digital designers. Chandra Li presented her phygital “Woman in Search of Freedom”, and an AI Collection by Angy Adams named “HEDONIST”.
Additionally, in the digital platform were the 3D Designers and AI Open Call Competitions. The Self Transformation 3D designers competition by Progenius Studio and curated by Chandra Li declared the first-place winner Xu Chengyin out of China for ECDYSIS, second place to Yuliia Miekh out of Ukraine for AeRI, and C-ELIA out of France in third place for MAP MORPHOSED.
The AI Open Call Competition by CHOICE DAO and curated by Angela Fraser and Natalie DeGroot, awarded Mike Parker out of Canada for The Light I Found as the first-place winner, Bárbara Estebaranz from Spain for Frequency Shift as second place winner, and Pamela Tacconi from Italy for New York Is Not a Statue in third place.
Furthering their deep dive into today’s global fashion landscape was their panel “Fashion as Soft Power and Cultural Movement: Regeneration, Innovation & Community” discussing the role and influence of fashion on culture in regard to sustainability, regeneration and creating change. The conversation was guided by Britta Cabanos, founder of Inside Fashion Design Inc, between Bridgett Arise, founder of Sustainable Fashion Week, and Usman Khan, founder of RunwayTO, Fashion X Magazine, and Orange Models.
Other key segments of this New York edition were shoppable pop-ups of a mix of designers who showcased and some who did not. An art gallery lined the rib vaults allowing you to be even more immersed in this merging of art forms.
The show included the ART E$TATE Awards Ceremony also on January 31, that recognized, honored, and celebrated the accomplishments of artists, creatives and talents around the world, including David Dubinsky for Best Creative Producer of the Year, Constantine Orbelian for the Cultural Icon Award, Sir Daniel Winn for Best Visual Storytelling, Anna Harutyunyan for Best Artist of the Year, Allen Liu for Art E$tate Photographer of the Year, Unique Fashion Show’s only Gita Dzhavid for the Fashion Innovation Award, Alena Rezanova for Best Conceptual Artist of the Year, Mariya Matiukha for Best Visionary Entrepreneur, Victoria Mozgovaya for Best Fashion Image, and Alina Altukhova for Persona of the Year.
Finally, a capstone highlight of the showcase was a private operatic rendering as we were serenaded by the exquisite and delightful vocal and instrumental crescendos by the New York City Opera. Honoring Conductor Constantine Orbelian were the beautiful and mesmerizing performances by Prima Soprano Elizaveta Ulakhovich, Award-Winning Harpist Alisa Sadikova, internationally acclaimed cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, celebrity Italian‐American tenor Eric Margiore, and Celebrity Pianist Vladimir Petrov, that further bathed this New York edition in elegance.
Unique Fashion Show NYC 2026 brought classical music to entertain the guests throughout the whole night.
Unique Fashion Show remains a defining force that moves with purpose into the future of fashion with vision and innovation, while creating beneficial cultural impacts and opening up conversations within the global fashion markets and artistic spaces.
Continuing to be a connection point for fashion, art, music, technology, sustainability, and social impact, Unique Fashion Show moves forward to its next stamp on fashion and clearing the way. Next stop on their traveling circuit is none other than their home base in Paris in May, where the conversation and movement continue.
With a fashion buyer grandmother and Mack Sennett Studios producer as a great grandfather, Dana’s love for Old Hollywood and fashion ignited. Sparking wonder, accentuating one’s being, helping them reach their potential, and knowing how valuable they are is always central to everything she does.
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