Milena Karcz is an environmentally conscious fashion designer specialising in womenswear and genderless clothing. She takes a lot of inspiration from her Polish heritage by featuring elements from polish literature, films and family history to create a narrative behind her designs. Her aesthetic can be described as avantgarde with incorporating elements of deconstruction and play on form. The strong influence of polish culture and the communist era can be seen in her final collection called Hysteric Deformations. The collection is inspired by a polish novel Ferdydurke and Koterski’s films, it is made exclusively out of deadstock materials in black and white.

Karcz uses creative pattern cutting to reinvent the classic silhouettes and create intricate deconstructed looks with a strong emphasis on quality garment construction and finishings, taking inspiration from classic tailoring techniques and forms. Her designs feature bold prints translated to knitwear jacquard and creative deadstock fabric manipulation. Her work made from industry offcuts was featured on the Institute of Positive Fashion forum and shortlisted as one of the finalists for the Student Fabric Initiative.