Julia Chwalinska [email protected]

Stylist and art director. I build the world first, then dress it.

I've dressed musicians on stage and in music videos, styled product for an independent bag designer, co-developed the art collective Katharsis83, built the first identity for an international finance conference in Warsaw, and co-led a network of 30 Polish student societies across the UK.

I'm drawn to things that are beautiful and slightly off: hand-made, a little dark, never quite finished. Shape matters more to me than trend.

I've drawn clothes for as long as I can remember. At thirteen I saw McQueen's VOSS and cried, and that was when I knew fashion moved me more than anything else. Zdzisław Beksiński is the other constant: the dread and the beauty of decay run through my personal work and the concepts I make for myself.

Outside fashion, I've worked at J.P. Morgan and JD.com, which is where I learned deadlines, budgets and what sells.

Julia Chwalinska in a white corset over sheer lace, chain necklaces and a scorpion belt buckle, standing in the gallery doorway in low sun
At Aquascaping, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 2024.
Said about working with me01
"She came to work with consistent innovative ideas and new ways of reaching our target audience."

Hannah Briant, Digital Communications Officer, Greenwich Business School

Experience02
Now
Complete Fashion Design, short course, London College of Fashion, finishing December 2026
2025–26
Commercial Operations, JD.com / Joybuy UK, European launch
2024
Product Control analyst, J.P. Morgan
2023–24
Business Development Manager, MERGE Events
2023
Co-head of marketing, Poland 2.0: summits in Amsterdam and Warsaw
2020–23
Federation of Polish Student Societies UK: graphic designer from December 2020, then co-president (December 2021 – March 2023), still leading graphics and the website
Education
MSc Emerging Economies and International Development, King's College London, Distinction, 2026
BA International Business, University of Greenwich, First, 2024
Languages
Polish (native), English (fluent), Mandarin (learning)
Tools
Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects