The new annual format honors creative industry professionals, visionaries and agents of positive change who are moving Ukrainian society towards progress.
The "Class-2024" portfolio includes teams and talents from various spheres of life that define the Ukrainian present and shape the future. This year's list includes representatives of the fashion industry, cultural managers, diplomats, curators, journalists, philanthropists, public figures and volunteers.
The hero of the cover of the debut edition was the war journalist and director Mstislav Chernov, Pulitzer Prize laureate and Oscar winner. The shooting was done during the Cannes Film Festival by Ukrainian photographer Daria Svertilova. In an exclusive interview with the editor-in-chief of Vogue Ukraine Vena Brykalin, he talks about working on the tape "20 days in Mariupol", the journalist's responsibility to society and his triumph in Los Angeles.
One of the most famous women of Ukraine, TV presenter and social activist Masha Efrosinina became the heroine of the big shooting "Relentless". She invited the editor of the culture department, Daria Slobodianyk, to the "Unbreakable Mama" summer camp in the Carpathians and talked about the work of the "Masha Foundation" and the rehabilitation program for women affected by the war.
Among the heroes and heroines of the first meeting of Vogue Ukraine Leaders is the co-founder of the Veteranka NGO, Kateryna Pryimak, who advocates the rights of women in military service and after demobilization. The reporter of "Suspilne. Cherkasy" and volunteer Victoria Hamaza conducts titanic humanitarian work in the most difficult areas of the front. Marketing and PR specialist Yaroslava Gres built the global fundraising platform UNITED24, and Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Valeria Ionan is responsible for the national digital innovation program.
As part of the "Class-2024", Vogue editors traditionally celebrate progressive figures in the cultural space. Among them is Sasha Andrusyk, manager and head of the UHO music agency, which initiates the creation and popularization of new Ukrainian academic music. Iryna Miroshnikova and Oleksiy Petrov from the architectural bureau "Form" carry out interdisciplinary research work at the intersection of architecture, history and art and take care of the development of the non-profit "Pavilion of Culture" on the territory of the National Expo Center in Kyiv. Stas Turina and Kateryna Libkind, the curators of the art collective "atelieronormalno", cooperate with neurotypical artists and, by their own example, form a new inclusive agenda on the Ukrainian art scene.
In the "Mind Games" project, representatives of the country's most progressive universities — Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and Aspen Institute Kyiv — talk about the challenges facing modern education and the formation of a new vision of Ukraine's future.
VOGUE UKRAINE LEADERS Class-2024
Sasha Andrusyk (UHO music agency)
Yana Barinova (Erste Foundation)
Daria Bassel (Docudays UA)
Yaroslava Gres (communication agency Gres Todorchuk)
Emine Japarova, diplomat
Kostyantyn Yevtushenko (UNIT.City)
Masha Efrosinina, TV presenter, public activist
Kateryna Zagoriy (Zagoriy Foundation)
Valeriya Ionan (Ministry of Digital Transformation)
Kateryna Libkind and Stas Turina ("ateliernormalno")
Iryna Miroshnikova and Oleksiy Petrov (FORMA architectural bureau)
Anna Orekhova and Olena Skirta (INSCIENCE)
Kateryna Priymak (Women's Veteran's Movement NGO)
Taras Prokopyshyn (The Ukrainians Media)
Elina Svitolina, tennis player
Ivan Uryvskyi, theater director
Victoria Hamaza, journalist, volunteer
Mstislav Chernov, journalist, director
Tatyana Chumak (TG Botanical)
