Central European Men’s Fashion is a conceptual fashion collection presented at the Mados infekcija (Fashion Infection) festival at the Contemporary Art Centre. The project was documented through photography and a documentary film produced during the preparation for the collection’s presentation.

– Virginija Januškevičiūtė

Instead of the usual young and graceful models, friends of the artists strode down the catwalk: middle-aged men, wearing clothes not designed by the authors of the collection, but belonging to them or obtained from unknown sources. The writer Rolandas Rastauskas, who participated in the project, observed that the name of the collection was a kind of auto-fiction created to avoid the image of post-Soviet culture, an idiosyncratic attempt to get closer to the West by declaring oneself part of, not Eastern, but at least Central, Europe.

– Virginija Januškevičiūtė, ‘”Fixations” by Aida Čeponytė and Valdas Ozarinskas: Restored works of early Lithuanian video art at the Meno Avilys Cinematheque’, in Nemunas, 2024, No. 10, p. 14–15. The text and its translation were commissioned by Meno Avilys as part of Sinemateka.lt, a project for the digitisation and restoration of Lithuanian audiovisual heritage.

Authors: Valdas Ozarinskas, Aida Čeponytė

The collection was presented at the Mados infekcija festival at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)

Photography: Dimitrijus Matvejevas

Runway order: Rolandas Rastauskas, Linas Jablonskis, Robertas Komža, Darius Gerasimavičius, Saulius Pilinkus, Arūnas Baltėnas, Dainius Liškevičius, Tadas Balčiūnas, Girvydas Duoblys, Donatas Jaunkauskas-Duonis, Kostas Bogdanas, Saulius Paukštys, Gintautas Trimakas, Gediminas Laurinavičius

Other sources:
Abbreviated 63-minute version of an interview (prepared by Aida Čeponytė and Gerda Paliušytė), presented at the 2023 Vilnius Documentary Film Festival. Available on the Sinemateka.lt portal: https://www.sinemateka.lt/videomenas?modal=z168