The Kalush Orchestra number was bright and driving with the use of national motifs. The artists were dressed in exact copies of ancient masterpieces of folk art, as well as in authentic items about 100 years old.

The stylist Nazar Didyk worked on the costumes and style of the group, but the ethnographer, gallery owner, designer Roksoliana Shimchuk and costume designer Olga Karpov also joined the work. The authors of these bows in an interview with the publication “MUZVAR ” spoke in detail about the images of the Kalush Orchestra.

In general, several different images are collected, but they are all filled with national elements. According to Roksoliana, for each member of the Kalush Orchestra, she tried to provide several options and elements in costumes in order to combine them for the semi-final and final of Eurovision.

Timofey (soloist): his image completely reproduces the Hutsul system, the clothes on him are authentic things with a mix of a perfect replica of the national Hutsul clothes (shirt and lace (wide decorated leather belt). The pride of the bow is an old serdak (scroll). It is interesting that in At one time, this heart was brought to Olga Karpov and said: “I feel that you should have it. It has a history and strength that will still be revealed.”

Oleg (frontman): it was important to keep the pink panama, thereby combining modernity and vintage elements in clothes. Initially, there was an idea to make the Verkhovyna shirt one of the symbols, but they settled on the Bukovina keptura, which is complemented by a white or bright stylized shirt and a scarf.

Sasha Tab (backing vocals): an authentic collectible Bukovinian taystra (bag) and a traditional Ukrainian scarf in the form of a bandana were added to the image of the artist – according to the idea of Sasha himself.

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