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Scrapyard releases ‘Mad Max style’ calendar to raise money for Ukrainian orphans

Charity auctions of copies of the calendar have started with 100 percent of proceeds to go to children from Ukraine. Olmet

The annual calendar from Olmet, a recycling company from Tarnowskie Góry, is known as the Polish version of the world-famous Pirelli calendar produced each year by the Italian tire giant.

Dancer-turned-designer wows with his stunning eco-friendly ‘art clothes’ made from recycled materials

The unique cloth paintings, composed of recycled materials from car factories, sewing workshops, upholstery warehouses and second hand clothes shops, include depictions of Vermeer’s ‘Girl with the Pearl Earring’, Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’, a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo, and Da Vinci’s ‘Lady with an Ermine’.

Polish high-end fashion pop-up for ‘pre-loved’ clothes becomes first-of-its-kind to open on London’s fancy Oxford Street

Originally set up in an abandoned fast-fashion store, this is the first time a second-hand fashion outlet had been given permission to trade on Oxford Street, which is home to the world’s biggest high-street fashion brands.

Pioneering PRL-era fashion house that ‘lightened the common grey and mediocrity’ awarded ‘historical’ status

The studio belonging to model-turned designer Grażyna Hase was a key part of Warsaw’s bohemian scene during the Polish People's Republic (PRL), and a critical innovator of Polish fashion design.

Fashion designer honoured by Forbes uses sewing school to help tackle issue of menstrual poverty in Africa

With sanitary pads being out of reach for most women in Kenya, Maja Kotala from Chorzów has enlisted the help of fashion brands and students from her ‘Sewing Together’ school to make the free, renewable pads.

Łódź fashion firm making a splash with new tights made from old fishing nets and marine waste

Named among this year’s “must-have” items at the 2021 Łódź Design Festival, according to the judges, the tights stood-out not just because of their eco aspects, but also on account of their aesthetics.

Highlands designer wows Dubai with her gorgeous folk fashions

A designer from the Polish highlands has been awarded the Best Folk Fabric 2021 Award at the International Fashion Week in Dubai.

Model quits the catwalk to teach sewing and fashion design to underprivileged women in Kenya

Starting last year, Maja Kotala’s Sewing Together school has now partnered with the Salvation Army Kenya and has 20 graduates with their own products being available to buy online.

Beautifully illustrated new book showcases 100 years of Polish fashion

Each chapter in ‘Reason and flair. A century of fashion in Poland’ explores a different decade in Poland’s fashion evolution up to the present day, with all its innovations and inspirations along the way.

Sisters on ‘a mission’ to revive beautiful 17th century craft of gilt leather making – and the results are breathtaking

​​Used to decorate wall panels as an alternative to wallpaper, as upholstery for furniture and as a decorative covering for bags, boxes, chests and jewellery, gilt leather was once used to adorn the most luxurious noble interiors, including castles and palaces.​​

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Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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