Celebrating exquisite couture where every design tells a story.
Q: What are the main characteristics of your brand, LUKASHYK?
A: When a woman wears a dress or corset by LUKASHYK, something inside her changes. Her sense of beauty transforms: She begins to see herself differently, to value life more deeply, to notice its light. In that moment, her destiny often shifts. LUKASHYK is about love, faith, growth and success. It’s about expression, character and the quiet strength that beauty carries. It’s about changing the world through elegance and light.
Q: Recently, you hosted a major fashion gala with the launch of your new collection. What was the story and purpose behind this event?
A: After two and a half years of living in Canada, I created my first large project: the LUKASHYK Fashion Gala Night. It was not just a presentation of a new couture collection, it was the birth of a tradition, an event that will now take place every year. I am originally from Ukraine. I immigrated during the war — a time of great loss, but also of profound strength and new beginnings. My husband served in the military, and there was a time I didn’t know if he would survive. He did, but many of my friends didn’t. Their children were left alone.
I created this event to help those children, to send them to the sea for healing and peace, to give them even a few days of warmth, care and light. I often think, if something had happened to me I would hope that someone would do the same for my own children. So this became my mission — to give to others what I would have wished for mine.
Thanks to the support of our partners and the kindness of people around me, we already earned enough to send the first group of children to the seaside. And this, for me, is the greatest reward: the light I am meant to pass through myself.
Q: Why did you decide to connect this event with charity?
A: Before the war, I had built a successful career — more than 15 years in fashion. I was an official partner of Miss Ukraine, collaborated with television and major fashion projects, owned my own studio, boutiques, production and an experimental atelier. Every year I presented several couture collections on the runway. It was an active, fulfilling and beautiful life. But when the war began, everything was lost. And with it, I lost the ability to dream. I couldn’t forgive myself for the thought of creating beautiful dresses while people were dying, while children were losing their parents. I simply couldn’t allow myself to dream again.
After I immigrated, I made a promise to myself: if I ever return to fashion, I will do it only with purpose — to help children who lost their families because of the war. So, for me, charity is not an addition to my work — it’s the heart of it. It’s the only way I can create again. It’s my way of saying thank you — to life.
