Magda Butrym

Magda Butrym

Magda Butrym, born in Zabrze, Poland, worked for years as a stylist and ran a short-lived earlier label, Portofino, before launching her eponymous house in Warsaw in 2014. The label built its identity by working directly with Polish artisans, turning regional hand-knitted lace and hand-plaited leatherwork into signatures rather than trims.

Dresses

Dresses are where Magda Butrym's sensual, romantic line is most obviously at work, built on the contemporary silhouettes she developed after years of dressing clients as a stylist before she designed anything herself. The Slavic references the house leans on, most visible in its 2024 Decade of the Rose anniversary campaign, tend to show up here first.

Jackets and blazers

The outerwear carries the label's structural side, a counterweight to the draping in the dresses. It is a useful reminder that Butrym's training came from styling real bodies for years before she ever cut a pattern of her own.

Shoes

Footwear came later in the label's build-out, added as the house expanded past ready-to-wear, and it tends to echo the same hand-finished sensibility rather than chase the loudest silhouette of the season.

Tops and shirting

Tops and shirting are where the artisanal details the house is known for, hand-knitted lace especially, show up in the smallest, most wearable doses. It is a good entry point if the fuller dresses feel like too much commitment.

Trousers and shorts

The tailoring here is more grounded than the label's romantic reputation might suggest, and it is worth paying attention to given how much of Butrym's early identity came from dressing clients in real, wearable pieces rather than runway statements.

Skirts

Skirts split the difference between the house's structural tailoring and its softer, more romantic instincts, and they are a good place to see the Polish craft techniques, hand-plaited leather trims especially, at a smaller scale.

More from the collection

The rest fills in a decade-plus of a label that started small in Warsaw in 2014 and has since staged its first official Paris show and opened a New York boutique. It is worth a scroll for pieces that do not fit neatly into a single category.

Our honest take

Butrym's real advantage is that the craft references are not decorative flourishes bolted onto a generic dress, they are load-bearing, sourced from named techniques and named regions in Poland. That gives the label a point of view most romantic-leaning brands do not bother to earn. It can run a bit maximalist if you are shopping for something plain.