VILNIUS — Vilnius is a stylish city.

No, the ride from the airport doesn’t show that, but then again it doesn’t for any city, either. But after a walk down Gedimino Prospect, you’ll see what I mean.

Regardless of age, the women are never without make-up and high heels. The men keep their shoes clean as a toothbrush and look just as [private_supervisor]fashion-conscious as their counterparts in Southern Europe.

Two decades of freedom have allowed small-scale fashion designers to pop up, and they were certainly showing off their best efforts during this weekend’s 10th annual Mados Infekcija fashion show, easily Vilnius’ most prestigious fashion event of the year.

If you’re a fashion hound, likely you went. If not, well, let’s say that if you think Lady Gaga is totally unique in her bizarre style of dressing, you’ve obviously never been to a fashion show.

This year’s incarnation of Mados Infekcija was striking in its disparity and diversity — the various designers showed very little in common.

Lithuanian Agnė Kuzmickaitė, whose designs are already a regular at the Riga Fashion Week, showed of her latest collection first Friday. It was an interesting mixture of geometric shapes, gaudy present wrapping and the usual text and butterfly shaped imprints.

Vidmina Stasiulytė was next with a travel-inspired collection included maps, tent-shaped dresses and ponchos, while Latvia’s Liga Banga went for a gimmicky Siamese twin-triplet look by stitching two or three shirts together, but for only one person to wear.

Eglė Žiemytė was far more conservative with her set of classy, Armani-like, dark-colored pea coats. Egidijaus Sidaro’s models all wore an off-putting plastic veil perhaps put to distract viewers from the uninspired collection of seafoam green and earth tone pantsuits and business casual attire.

Jurgita Januškevičiūtė-Žiugždienė went retro with late 1960s-early 70s style dresses, robes and Near East headdress in earth and metallic tones. The Danish female duo of Vilsbøl de Arce also went retro, but instead chose the 1980s, mixing sheer and revealing costumes with intimidating shoulder pads in white, black, gray and tan.

Day 2 revealed the show’s most wild designs. The Spaniard Martin Lamothe took bellhop attire into the Baroque extravagance along with oddball bandit masks and some very stylish clubbing dresses near the end.

Diana Paukštytė’s elegant shirts and dresses largely hide the wearer’s figure behind intricate folding patterns and ribbons but show off the designer’s prowess. Kristina Kruopienytė’s latest collection is a jarring cross between bland 1950s office attire and Star Trek costumes while the Russian designer Oleg Biryukov’s chic ribbed dresses were far more user-friendly and debonair.

Organizers saved the weirdest for last, as the final four were way left of center. Lithuania’s Vitalis Čepkauskas has the only male-only collection of the show and he made all the models were plastic skeleton-rib masks and braces over their clothing — could work for a Halloween costume, but nothing else.

The young Olga Prytkova and Ina Poltniak met at the Vilnius Academy of Art and showed their first collection in 2008. This year’s set is directly inspired by Ukrainian peasant dress, down to the Yulia Tymoshenko braids for each model. Perfect for an ethnic folk festival but doable for day-to-day use, too.

Sandra Straukaitė’s alien race collection featured several of the the now-ubiquitous misshapen lace face mask (Lady Gaga herself sported one for the Grammys) and other masks, veils, capes and things strictly for the runway and one-off attention grabbers.

But as strange as that was, the most out-there was the Lithuanian female duo Dovilė Kaušakytė and Eglė Mazecaitė’s harsh combination of Nutcracker hats, aerobic suits, lace veils and flower-printed crotches. It’s a collection you’ll never see anyone wearing. [/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]fashion-conscious as their counterparts in Southern Europe.

Two decades of freedom have allowed small-scale fashion designers to pop up, and they were certainly showing off their best efforts during this weekend’s 10th annual Mados Infekcija fashion show, easily Vilnius’ most prestigious fashion event of the year.

If you’re a fashion hound, likely you went. If not, well, let’s say that if you think Lady Gaga is totally unique in her bizarre style of dressing, you’ve obviously never been to a fashion show.

This year’s incarnation of Mados Infekcija was striking in its disparity and diversity — the various designers showed very little in common.

Lithuanian Agnė Kuzmickaitė, whose designs are already a regular at the Riga Fashion Week, showed of her latest collection first Friday. It was an interesting mixture of geometric shapes, gaudy present wrapping and the usual text and butterfly shaped imprints.

Vidmina Stasiulytė was next with a travel-inspired collection included maps, tent-shaped dresses and ponchos, while Latvia’s Liga Banga went for a gimmicky Siamese twin-triplet look by stitching two or three shirts together, but for only one person to wear.

Eglė Žiemytė was far more conservative with her set of classy, Armani-like, dark-colored pea coats. Egidijaus Sidaro’s models all wore an off-putting plastic veil perhaps put to distract viewers from the uninspired collection of seafoam green and earth tone pantsuits and business casual attire.

Jurgita Januškevičiūtė-Žiugždienė went retro with late 1960s-early 70s style dresses, robes and Near East headdress in earth and metallic tones. The Danish female duo of Vilsbøl de Arce also went retro, but instead chose the 1980s, mixing sheer and revealing costumes with intimidating shoulder pads in white, black, gray and tan.

Day 2 revealed the show’s most wild designs. The Spaniard Martin Lamothe took bellhop attire into the Baroque extravagance along with oddball bandit masks and some very stylish clubbing dresses near the end.

Diana Paukštytė’s elegant shirts and dresses largely hide the wearer’s figure behind intricate folding patterns and ribbons but show off the designer’s prowess. Kristina Kruopienytė’s latest collection is a jarring cross between bland 1950s office attire and Star Trek costumes while the Russian designer Oleg Biryukov’s chic ribbed dresses were far more user-friendly and debonair.

Organizers saved the weirdest for last, as the final four were way left of center. Lithuania’s Vitalis Čepkauskas has the only male-only collection of the show and he made all the models were plastic skeleton-rib masks and braces over their clothing — could work for a Halloween costume, but nothing else.

The young Olga Prytkova and Ina Poltniak met at the Vilnius Academy of Art and showed their first collection in 2008. This year’s set is directly inspired by Ukrainian peasant dress, down to the Yulia Tymoshenko braids for each model. Perfect for an ethnic folk festival but doable for day-to-day use, too.

Sandra Straukaitė’s alien race collection featured several of the the now-ubiquitous misshapen lace face mask (Lady Gaga herself sported one for the Grammys) and other masks, veils, capes and things strictly for the runway and one-off attention grabbers.

But as strange as that was, the most out-there was the Lithuanian female duo Dovilė Kaušakytė and Eglė Mazecaitė’s harsh combination of Nutcracker hats, aerobic suits, lace veils and flower-printed crotches. It’s a collection you’ll never see anyone wearing. [/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]fashion-conscious as their counterparts in Southern Europe.

Two decades of freedom have allowed small-scale fashion designers to pop up, and they were certainly showing off their best efforts during this weekend’s 10th annual Mados Infekcija fashion show, easily Vilnius’ most prestigious fashion event of the year.

If you’re a fashion hound, likely you went. If not, well, let’s say that if you think Lady Gaga is totally unique in her bizarre style of dressing, you’ve obviously never been to a fashion show.

This year’s incarnation of Mados Infekcija was striking in its disparity and diversity — the various designers showed very little in common.

Lithuanian Agnė Kuzmickaitė, whose designs are already a regular at the Riga Fashion Week, showed of her latest collection first Friday. It was an interesting mixture of geometric shapes, gaudy present wrapping and the usual text and butterfly shaped imprints.

Vidmina Stasiulytė was next with a travel-inspired collection included maps, tent-shaped dresses and ponchos, while Latvia’s Liga Banga went for a gimmicky Siamese twin-triplet look by stitching two or three shirts together, but for only one person to wear.

Eglė Žiemytė was far more conservative with her set of classy, Armani-like, dark-colored pea coats. Egidijaus Sidaro’s models all wore an off-putting plastic veil perhaps put to distract viewers from the uninspired collection of seafoam green and earth tone pantsuits and business casual attire.

Jurgita Januškevičiūtė-Žiugždienė went retro with late 1960s-early 70s style dresses, robes and Near East headdress in earth and metallic tones. The Danish female duo of Vilsbøl de Arce also went retro, but instead chose the 1980s, mixing sheer and revealing costumes with intimidating shoulder pads in white, black, gray and tan.

Day 2 revealed the show’s most wild designs. The Spaniard Martin Lamothe took bellhop attire into the Baroque extravagance along with oddball bandit masks and some very stylish clubbing dresses near the end.

Diana Paukštytė’s elegant shirts and dresses largely hide the wearer’s figure behind intricate folding patterns and ribbons but show off the designer’s prowess. Kristina Kruopienytė’s latest collection is a jarring cross between bland 1950s office attire and Star Trek costumes while the Russian designer Oleg Biryukov’s chic ribbed dresses were far more user-friendly and debonair.

Organizers saved the weirdest for last, as the final four were way left of center. Lithuania’s Vitalis Čepkauskas has the only male-only collection of the show and he made all the models were plastic skeleton-rib masks and braces over their clothing — could work for a Halloween costume, but nothing else.

The young Olga Prytkova and Ina Poltniak met at the Vilnius Academy of Art and showed their first collection in 2008. This year’s set is directly inspired by Ukrainian peasant dress, down to the Yulia Tymoshenko braids for each model. Perfect for an ethnic folk festival but doable for day-to-day use, too.

Sandra Straukaitė’s alien race collection featured several of the the now-ubiquitous misshapen lace face mask (Lady Gaga herself sported one for the Grammys) and other masks, veils, capes and things strictly for the runway and one-off attention grabbers.

But as strange as that was, the most out-there was the Lithuanian female duo Dovilė Kaušakytė and Eglė Mazecaitė’s harsh combination of Nutcracker hats, aerobic suits, lace veils and flower-printed crotches. It’s a collection you’ll never see anyone wearing. [/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]fashion-conscious as their counterparts in Southern Europe.

Two decades of freedom have allowed small-scale fashion designers to pop up, and they were certainly showing off their best efforts during this weekend’s 10th annual Mados Infekcija fashion show, easily Vilnius’ most prestigious fashion event of the year.

If you’re a fashion hound, likely you went. If not, well, let’s say that if you think Lady Gaga is totally unique in her bizarre style of dressing, you’ve obviously never been to a fashion show.

This year’s incarnation of Mados Infekcija was striking in its disparity and diversity — the various designers showed very little in common.

Lithuanian Agnė Kuzmickaitė, whose designs are already a regular at the Riga Fashion Week, showed of her latest collection first Friday. It was an interesting mixture of geometric shapes, gaudy present wrapping and the usual text and butterfly shaped imprints.

Vidmina Stasiulytė was next with a travel-inspired collection included maps, tent-shaped dresses and ponchos, while Latvia’s Liga Banga went for a gimmicky Siamese twin-triplet look by stitching two or three shirts together, but for only one person to wear.

Eglė Žiemytė was far more conservative with her set of classy, Armani-like, dark-colored pea coats. Egidijaus Sidaro’s models all wore an off-putting plastic veil perhaps put to distract viewers from the uninspired collection of seafoam green and earth tone pantsuits and business casual attire.

Jurgita Januškevičiūtė-Žiugždienė went retro with late 1960s-early 70s style dresses, robes and Near East headdress in earth and metallic tones. The Danish female duo of Vilsbøl de Arce also went retro, but instead chose the 1980s, mixing sheer and revealing costumes with intimidating shoulder pads in white, black, gray and tan.

Day 2 revealed the show’s most wild designs. The Spaniard Martin Lamothe took bellhop attire into the Baroque extravagance along with oddball bandit masks and some very stylish clubbing dresses near the end.

Diana Paukštytė’s elegant shirts and dresses largely hide the wearer’s figure behind intricate folding patterns and ribbons but show off the designer’s prowess. Kristina Kruopienytė’s latest collection is a jarring cross between bland 1950s office attire and Star Trek costumes while the Russian designer Oleg Biryukov’s chic ribbed dresses were far more user-friendly and debonair.

Organizers saved the weirdest for last, as the final four were way left of center. Lithuania’s Vitalis Čepkauskas has the only male-only collection of the show and he made all the models were plastic skeleton-rib masks and braces over their clothing — could work for a Halloween costume, but nothing else.

The young Olga Prytkova and Ina Poltniak met at the Vilnius Academy of Art and showed their first collection in 2008. This year’s set is directly inspired by Ukrainian peasant dress, down to the Yulia Tymoshenko braids for each model. Perfect for an ethnic folk festival but doable for day-to-day use, too.

Sandra Straukaitė’s alien race collection featured several of the the now-ubiquitous misshapen lace face mask (Lady Gaga herself sported one for the Grammys) and other masks, veils, capes and things strictly for the runway and one-off attention grabbers.

But as strange as that was, the most out-there was the Lithuanian female duo Dovilė Kaušakytė and Eglė Mazecaitė’s harsh combination of Nutcracker hats, aerobic suits, lace veils and flower-printed crotches. It’s a collection you’ll never see anyone wearing. [/private_subscription 1 year]

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