May 19, 2011 – SANAHUNT Luxury Concept Store have launched the SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative, a bi-annual event produced in collaboration with the brand’s business partners and friends. SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative captures emerging trends in international fashion, music and art and relocates them within the cultural context of Kyiv, promoting the city not only as a vibrant, culturally sophisticated destination, but also as an international hub on the cutting-edge of creative production.

The inaugural installment will combine several projects into the unmissable weekend of May 19-21. For the contemporary art component, SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative has invited the Berlin-based magazine 032с to bring one of its signature Workshops to Kyiv. The program will hinge on a group exhibition, featuring selected works by artists Scott Campbell, Danko and Ana Steiner, and Helen Marten. Music will be provided by the legendary Jack Donoghue of Salem and Marcelo Burlon, as well as designer extraordinaire, Gosha Rubchinskiy, who will keep the SANAHUNT dancefloor rowdy during the three nights of the event.

As a special project of the May 2011 edition of SANAHUNT Cultural Initiative, Visionaire will present a retrospective of all 59 of its issues, which will be on view within the retail space of the SANAHUNT Luxury Concept Store. Rafael de Cardenas of ARCHITECTURE AT LARGE is creating display installations for the Visionaire archive issue

Cultural Initiative

SANAHUNT continues the cooperation with the legendary House of Balenciaga. This Brand, which was founded by Cristobal Balenciaga, is today headed by the talented designer Nicolas Ghesquiere. New BALENCIAGA SHOP-IN-SHOP is located on the fourth floor of the store – at the new gallery of TOP fashion brands. The interior concept, which was created specially for SANAHUNT, is called ‘Iceberg’. The interior of the shop-in-shop (70 м2) features aluminum, glass and plastic, amended by a unique illumination system called ‘spotlight’.

New SHOP-IN-SHOP LANVIN in SANAHUNT synchronizes Jeanne Lanven’s heritage and talent of Alber Elbaz. In the elegant tradition of times of the first women-designers Mr. Elbaz includes a subtle play of details. Classics and experiment are of equal rights for him. SHOP-IN-SHOP LANVIN is located on the fourth level of SANAHUNT . Concept design was developed by the Lanvin creative director, and famous designers Jean-Christophe Poggioli and Pierre Beucler from Architecture & associes.