{"id":5025,"date":"2021-07-08T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2021-07-08T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:54:04","slug":"kuklinska-dk-fashion-hourglass-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/kuklinska-dk-fashion-hourglass-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Kukli\u0144ska DK Fashion Hourglass Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elegance, great taste and creativity, which constitute the ground for the Kukli\u0144ska DK Fashion brand, mean not only extremely beautiful creations, but, above all, the person behind it: Ms Danuta Kukli\u0144ska, designer and\u00a0charismatic founder of the \u201eDom\u00a0Pod Anio\u0142ami\u201d non-profit organization. She always feels emotionally connected with her clients and responsible for their appearance. This year, mrs. Danuta was awarded the\u00a0title of the <\/strong>Charismatic Woman<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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How long have you been in the fashion design?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I\u00a0design for 30 years, always gawns and other garments for speacial events.
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My outfits have never been taped. Always concrete art was released separately from the tailor\u2019s hand. In the store you could buy e.g. only three such things \u2013 says Danuta Kukli\u0144ska<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
What has change since you have made your first design?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

I\u00a0have my favorite models and styles which show the essence of woman: straight lines, curve shaping fishtail dresses. Diner gown should be timeless. 1960\u2019s is a\u00a0period of fashion icons. Hourglass shape is ideal. The hourglass beauty standard is implemented in the process of designing and can be achieved with any figure. Every lady can look feminine. I\u00a0work each client individually, in front of the mirror. I\u00a0show her what would suit her in my opinion.
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Which type of clients do you prefer: those who know what they want the ones who decide to trust your decisions?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Client who knows what she wants requires different approach. Her dream image not always suits her appearance. If I\u00a0cannot convince her to my choice, I\u00a0will not make anything else. I\u00a0feel responsible for the final look of that woman. I\u00a0can\u2019t make something which would be against myself. If won\u2019t make anything I\u00a0wouldn\u2019t sign something with my name. I\u00a0don\u2019t design on the basis of a\u00a0photo brought by the client; it may be a\u00a0suggestion, but nothing more. I\u00a0have my vision which is a\u00a0sum of the physical appearance, the way in which that person moves. We have to have some kind of emotional relation.
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Is it necessary to be a\u00a0psychologist in order to be a\u00a0good designer?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Yes, because an individual can feel well in some outfit or not. People are often unaware of the fact that what they were can block them. I\u00a0had my period of \u201cblack wardrobe\u201d myself. I\u00a0personally perceive color as an extremely important aspect.
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You always wear colors.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

If I\u00a0put something on, I\u00a0need to feel comfortable. If I\u00a0make a\u00a0mistake in matching clothes, I\u00a0lose my spirit and all I\u00a0want is to go home. I\u00a0have to have everything well-organized. You can call it perfectionism, and that perfectionism started appearing at my work, too.
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Your style bases on an individual approach instead of mass production.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s true. Although sewing for sales throughout the country, I\u00a0had to decide for a\u00a0kind of \u201cmass production\u201d. I\u00a0had a\u00a0team of 30 employees; it was never a\u00a0flow production, though. Each piece was hand-made, therefore it was possible to buy e.g. three pieces from one model per store.
I\u00a0started opening my boutiques in Krak\u00f3w, the first one was at Gertrudy street. It is my pride and sentiment. I\u00a0adapted high ground apartments in private town houses in order to make them visible from streetcar and bus windows. Next ones were located at Grodzka and D\u0142uga. Some circumstances, e.g. owner issues, changed and I\u00a0had to close my spot at Gertrudy for this reason.
Some of my locations attracted amateurs of faking designs. It was a\u00a0huge problem. My collections were small and expensive. A\u00a0large producer used my designs to mass produce huge amounts of clothes sold for price incommensurate to my offer. Every designer wants to be identified with their own style, which makes that situation painful. Struggle for author\u2019s rights is hard.
Three years ago came the day in which I\u00a0decided to suspend business operations. I\u00a0needed some rest. My daughter, who wanted to launch her own firm at that time, understood me and advised me to go for individual projects. I\u00a0can give each client a\u00a0hundred percent guarantee that her gown would be one of its own and sewn especially for her. Project design is not presented anywhere and thus safe. I\u00a0have never prioritized financial aspects. Everything just had to be perfectly executed, not only sell it better. Owing a\u00a0company requires organization and administrative work, too. I\u00a0don\u2019t have that problem now.
I\u00a0love choosing materials. I\u00a0can assure my clients that they always have the option of repairing or adjusting something. For this reason I\u00a0keep materials used to make each gown. We also make fashion shows for partner companies producing exquisite textiles. I\u00a0give them my designs, they give me fabrics.
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You are very active in the social area and have your foundation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

This is partly due to my personal responsibilities and the fact that my husband and I\u00a0care for my disabled son who suffers from West syndrome. He\u2019s actually a\u00a0grown man, 34 years old. The process of upbringing has always been related in some sense to a\u00a0struggle: kindergarten, school, resources. We\u2019ve always wondered what would happen if we had no more power some day. Therefore, together with my husband and daughter, we wanted to launch a\u00a0home for disabled adults, which would be a\u00a0family home, and where the caregivers could live together with the charges.
Caregivers often leave their jobs and live off only minimal government funding. Such a\u00a0person cannot take up a\u00a0job. There is really no livelihood. It is a\u00a0very serious problem. When the caregivers are older and unable to take care of the disabled family member, they lose their own resources in order to put the person unable to function on their own in a\u00a0care facility. Not everyone has as much luck in life as we do. Therefore, we would like to include the disabled and caregivers in the project. As for the location, we are considering the area of nearby Krzeszowice. Unfortunately, our current plans were thwarted by the pandemic.
We moved out of Krakow ourselves, because we were thinking about Anna Dymna\u2019s center in Radwanice. This center primarily deals with children with Down\u2019s syndrome, therefore full care is not available. That is why we thought about taking care of the foundation ourselves. We would like to implement there various forms of therapy, including contact with animals.
We are glad that our daughter helps us in this endeavor. It was her decision. We hope that one day she will manage the foundation further, become a\u00a0legal guardian, and our house will become her dwelling.\u00a0\u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magdalena Suru\u0142o
Iwona Wola\u0144ska-Stachurska <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elegance, great taste and creativity, which constitute the ground for the Kukli\u0144ska DK Fashion brand, mean not only extremely beautiful creations, but, above all, the person behind it: Ms Danuta Kukli\u0144ska, designer and\u00a0charismatic founder of the \u201eDom\u00a0Pod Anio\u0142ami\u201d non-profit organization. She always feels emotionally connected with her clients and responsible for their appearance. This year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5034,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whystory.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}