The Moravian Gallery in Brno presents a retrospective exhibition Bonsoir, Audrey! by the Slovak fashion designer based in the Czech Republic Boris Kráľ. The young designer has made a splash on the Czech fashion scene as a unique figure with a distinctive, elegant style. His work is a celebration of women, fashion, and craftsmanship. As a master tailor, he likes to finish his designs with hand-stitching, taking great care to ensure that the dresses he creates look perfect not only on the outside but also on the inside. He is unpretentious, striking, and precise.

However, his style is not just another attempt at pretentious luxury. The designer’s distinctive signature, rooted in Christian Dior’s New Look fashion classics, is recognizable, timeless, sophisticated, and supremely elegant. And it is also disciplined. It is not flashy and is built on rules. Boris Kráľ is neither an iconoclast nor does he simply transpose patterns from the past into the present. He unabashedly professes his admiration for the beautiful era of 1950s–1960s fashion, celebrated in films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Funny Face, and Belle de Jour, and embodied by muses such as Audrey Hepburn, Catherine Deneuve, and Jackie Kennedy Onassis. However, he gives these ideals a unique form, a contemporary spirit, and modern silhouettes.