Victoria Gres ( uk, Вікторія Юріївна Гресь; born 1964) is a

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and

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. She and other designers are considered to be some of the first Ukrainian fashion designers to emerge after Ukraine gained independence as a country. Gres began her career in fashion design around 1996. Her collections have been featured in Ukraine,

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, the United States, and

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. Her designs are regularly featured during Ukrainian Fashion Week. Gres' fashion shows are often inspired by films or literary and musical works. In 2014, she staged a show at the Ukrainian Fashion Week to protest the war. In 2019, during the Victoria Gres brand's 26th anniversary, she hosted a fashion show inspired by

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s. In 2008, Gres was a

for the

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. In 2014, she designed the inauguration dress for the

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. The garment was a silk lavender coat dress with

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on the hem and sleeves. It was worn during the first part of the day, during the swearing in ceremony for the

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at the

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and at the

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