Iryna Sydoruk, a native of Odesa, brought together 2,500 guests at the Emily Resort for the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA and impressed the Lviv audience with the festival’s scale
2,500 guests, dozens of venues, and 22 fashion shows: how the largest women’s festival—the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA—took place at Emily Resort
2,500 guests, 22 fashion shows, and 60 speakers: how the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA
took place at Emily Resort Lviv hosted Ukraine’s largest women’s intellectual and cultural festival, the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA
2,500 guests, over 60 speakers, 50 workshop leaders, 22 fashion shows, a large-scale charity initiative, and dozens of venues—this is how the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA, one of Ukraine’s largest intellectual and cultural projects, took place in Lviv at Emily Resort.
Throughout the day, the grounds of Emily Resort transformed into a vast space dedicated to education, fashion, culture, charity, and women’s leadership. Lectures, a forum of transformational games, the Genesis Space by DIVA medical forum, the DIVA Fashion Show, brand exhibition zones, and an evening concert program took place simultaneously in several halls and open-air venues.
The inspiration and driving force behind the festival is Odessa native Iryna Sydoruk—founder and director of the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA—who succeeded in uniting education, fashion, culture, charity, and a strong community of women from across Ukraine into a single project. It is thanks to her vision that the festival has become one of the country’s largest intellectual and cultural projects for women.
The festival’s educational platform brought together over 60 speakers—representatives from business, medicine, the fashion industry, psychology, and the public sector. Guests were addressed by Andreas Moskin, Lyudmila Bogush, Oleg Filishin, Lyubov Lozinska, Anna Mikhailichenko, Lesya Signeeva, and other renowned experts.
A separate part of the festival was the All-Ukrainian Forum of Transformational Games, which brought together over 50 game practitioners from Ukraine and around the world.
The Genesis Space by DIVA medical forum generated significant buzz, featuring leading doctors, representatives of pharmaceutical companies, wellness providers, and cosmetics brands. Speakers included Professor Yaroslav Zablotsky, Natalia Sablina, Irina Yevtushenko, Anna Golovko, Olena Niankovska, Tetiana Yeliseyeva, and other representatives of the medical and beauty industries.
One of the festival’s main events was the large-scale DIVA Fashion Show, which featured 22 runway shows by Ukrainian and European brands. The runway showcased Andreas Moskin, Vytkani, Akel Couture, Alexandra Bogach, Choven by SYVAK, Pravda Label, and other brands.
The Vytkani brand attracted particular attention from guests; previously, it had presented its collections only at international fashion events in Milan and Paris, and the show in Lviv was its first in Ukraine.
An exceptionally emotional part of the show was the segments featuring the children of Ukraine’s fallen heroes, as well as ethnic collections that blended contemporary fashion with Ukrainian cultural elements.
An art performance by an artist generated a special buzz among guests and the media; during the presentation of Vytkani’s new ethnic collection, she created a body painting on poet and blogger Dmytro Morozuk while he recited his own poems.
The festival’s evening program concluded with a grand gala concert featuring CHEEV, LADA, and the band NIKAS.
An important part of DIVA was its charitable mission. As part of the festival, fundraisers were held to support the military, purchase drones and vehicles for the front lines, and provide prosthetics for Ukrainian defenders. These charitable initiatives were carried out in collaboration with the “Birds of Victory” Charitable Foundation and the Car Hero project.
During the festival, a charity raffle was also held for three books autographed by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, and the total amount of funds raised was approximately 100,000 hryvnias.
The Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA once again confirmed its status as one of the country’s largest women’s, cultural, and intellectual festivals, bringing together education, fashion, medicine, philanthropy, and a strong Ukrainian community.
The festival’s partners included general partner Strateg, pharmaceutical company Biopell, cosmetics brand Batiste, perfume brand Be Craft, the LITA reproductive health clinic, and other companies that supported the Ukrainian Women Festival DIVA.
