Fashion designer Lukáš Macháček (*1989) is a well-known figure on the Czech fashion scene. His approach to fashion is sophisticated and stems from a deep exploration of a chosen theme; it is characterized by refined silhouettes rooted in classic elegance, spiced with a touch of fresh rebellion.

In his latest time-lapse project, created in collaboration with the Moravian Gallery and culminating in an exhibition at Jurkovič Villa, the designer returns to his Moravian roots, layers of tradition, collective memory, folk wisdom, and magic. He presents fashion as a means of communicating with the world, a key to experiencing it, and a shortcut that extracts the essential from the chaos of the world.

The exhibition expands on the theme of his fashion collection Hanácká, which is the culmination of the designer’s long-standing, deeply personal concept: “May everyone who sees the fashion show, collection, or exhibition feel, see, or perceive everything that is secretly unfolding in my soul and mind. It is in every warp, weft, and stitch of the collection… I’ve poured my heart into Hanácká. It embodies the lightness that comes from the freedom to be oneself, regardless of what others think. Perhaps for the very first time, I’m also returning to my native Moravia, to the family heritage of tradition that many overlook,” says Lukáš Macháček.

The collection reflects the silhouette of a traditional costume, but also hidden symbols of the heart, streams of red blood, love and suffering, fate, and the will to change it. The layering that Lukáš Macháček employs in this collection evokes the layers of time. However, subtle motifs also appear here, such as certain intentionally unfinished seams, which express liberation from the roles that society assigns to us and expects of us.

Through them, Lukáš Macháček symbolically returns to the very beginning of his journey as a designer, when he did not have the necessary sewing machine and unfinished seams were sometimes a necessity. Now they become a gesture of liberation, but also a conscious decorative element.

Eva Sýkorová Čomborová, a Slovak fashion and art journalist and curator, contributed to the collection’s concept both as a curator and creatively: “Hanácká is synonymous with an authentic statement—a narrative about the meaning of rituals and existence, about freedom, truth, love, and the passage of life. It is Lukáš himself. The collection represents a genuine fusion of fashion, art, and everything beyond into a single symbiotic whole.”