Daria Shapovalova stood at the origins of the fashion industry in Ukraine. Thanks to her project Mercedes Benz Kiev Fashion Days, many foreign fashion insiders gathered at the shows of Ukrainian designers, which put Ukraine on a fashionable map of the world. For her accomplishments and successes, Daria was rated among the 500 most influential people in the fashion world according to Business of Fashion and Forbes # 30under30 in the Arts category.
Daria founded the site FW-Daily.com , the Kiev Fashion Institute educational platform and the Paris showroom More Dash , and also organizes Fashion Tech Summit , which examines the possibilities of interaction between fashion and tech industries. Today Daria lives and works in San Francisco and she is implementing one of her projects together with Google. In addition, in his Instagram account he conducts very interesting interviews with representatives of the Ukrainian fashion community.In the new podcast of Ksenia Schneider “Easy Industry”, Daria Shapovalova shared her story of formation and professional growth, which is inextricably linked with the history of Ukrainian fashion. Daria is a true visionary who looks to the future and is not afraid to try new things, to do what no one else has done before. It’s definitely worth listening to a podcast, if only because it teaches you to believe in your own strength and intuition, to work on mistakes, gaining invaluable experience and only go forward without stopping at anything.