Katarzyna Ditrich

Head of the Footwear and Accessories Design studio at the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Art in Szczecin since 2017.

The graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in the field of Artistic Education in the field of Fine Arts. In 2011, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz at the Faculty of Fabric and Clothing Design. She opened a doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, at the Faculty of Design.

Designer with many years of experience in the footwear industry. She designed almost one and a half thousand shoes that were implemented into production. She cooperated with international brands: Gino Rossi S.A., Simple Creative Products S.A., Badura, as well as with Tomasz Ossolinski, and the automotive company Subaru. She also designed footwear for theatrical. The collections she created were noticed by the Italian edition of VOGUE magazine.

Prizes and fashion shows

  • MITTELMODA. The Fashion Award, Grado, Italy

  • Philosophy Fashion Week Poland w Lodz, Poland

  • Złota Nitka, Lodz, Poland
  • OFF FASHION, Kielce, Poland
  • Sopot Art & Fashion Week, Poland
  • Sopot Fashion Days, Poland
  • Fashion Meeting, Wroclaw, Poland

  • International Fairs AMBERMART, Gdansk, Poland

  • Gold, Silver, Time, MCT Warsaw, Poland

    Exhibitions

    • MICAM, Fiera Milano, Italy

    • Fondazione Carigo, Gorizia, Italy

    • Die Handwerkskammer, Köln, Germany

    • RED DOT DESIGN, Essen, Germany

    • START POINT, Prague, Czech Republic

    • International Shoes’ Fairs, Poznan, Poland

    • doMINIk DESIGN, Gdansk, Poland

    • Gallery Glaza Expo Design, Gdansk, Poland

    • A Trace of the beginning, Gallery OS17, Szczecin, Poland

    • Didatic Exhibition PPOiA, Gallery Lacznik, Szczecin, Poland

    • Textile and sculpture – interactions. White Wall Gallery, Lodz, Poland

    • Collective exhibition, Textiles Museum, Lodz, Poland

    • Didatic Exhibition PPOiA, Museum of Jacek Malczewski Radom, Poland

    • Wellbeing, Poznan Design Festiwal, Poznan, Poland

    • Living and Imaginary Places, Academic Design Center, Lodz, Poland

    Conferences

    Coverings not only the head… around the interior and the figure, 3rd International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories, Radom, Poland

    Bags, handbags, travel cases, pouches… around history, matter, form, ideas, 2nd International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories, Radom, Poland

    Not only shoes… between tradition and the future, 1st International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories, Radom, Poland

    Publications

    Trace of the beginning
    ISBN: 978-83-63072-89-6
    Publishing Academy of Art in Szczecin, 2023

    Footwear as foot covering determining movement
    3rd International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories,
    ISBN 978-83-7351-984-8
    Uthrad Publishing House. 2023

    Fashionable sculpture – The bag can be anything you want, 2nd International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories
    ISBN 978-83-7351-934-3
    Uthrad Publishing House. 2021

    Minimalism in creation – minimalist footwear
    1st International Academic Biennale of Fashion Accessories
    ISBN 978-83-7351-864-3
    Uthrad Publishing House. 2018

    CONTACT

    Katarzyna Ditrich-Paturalska
    kasia.ditrich@gmail.com