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About: Bulgarian pop singer Dara Ekimova has drawn fresh comment for a bold live-show look, as Sofia concert photos and tour clips put her stage wardrobe back in the local gossip cycle.
Dara Ekimova’s latest stage appearance has put her concert wardrobe back in the spotlight in Bulgaria. Photographs and short clips from her live dates show the Sofia-born singer in a tightly styled, high-contrast look that fans have called more daring than the outfits she wore on earlier club nights. Bulgarian entertainment pages and social feeds treated the clothes as part of the performance, not a side note.
Ekimova was born in Sofia on 25 June 2002. She is the daughter of musician Dimitar Ekimov, frontman of the group Slang, and PR specialist Iva Ekimova. She built a following with original singles and the 2024 debut album Tazi Staya (This Room), then released the second studio album Setiva (Senses) in 2026. Her live calendar has included sold shows at Sofia venue Pirotska 5, a 2025 national tour titled Napred/Nazad with dates in Burgas, Varna, Plovdiv and Pleven, and a June 2026 album-preview concert at the Central Military Club in Sofia. Credits published with her official live videos list stylist Polina Dobreva and costume designer Maya Karanesheva among the team around those nights.
What drew comment this time was the cut of the concert outfit rather than a sponsored campaign. Fan posts and local show pages described a short hem, a fitted bodice and stage lighting that made the silhouette the first thing viewers discussed after the set. Similar talk has followed Ekimova before. In December 2025, Bulgaria Dnes wrote about an experimental street look that paired a heavy wool hood with a tank top. In January 2025, Fakti.bg reported photographs in which she posed in red lace lingerie against a snowy setting near the Belogradchik rocks, after daytime hiking shots. Those earlier items help explain why a new concert look was immediately read as another step in a public image that mixes open, diary-like songs with a more revealing visual line on stage.
The clothes sit inside a planned live production. Official credits for the Pirotska 5 concert films name Kevin Kostov as choreographer, with dancers including Boris Bachvarov, Viktor Angelov, Ivo Cornish, Yoana Stancheva and Nikol Karushkova. Makeup and hair for Ekimova have been credited on different nights to Tsvetan Penev, Alina Shayk and Kremena Slaveikova. In that framing, the daring outfit is one designed element of an audio-visual show, not a candid street photograph.
Bulgarian coverage of the Setiva premiere described the 16 June 2026 evening at the Central Military Club as the first live hearing of the new album, days before the official digital release around her birthday. Greek pop singer Evangelia joined her for the duet Parea. Fans who posted from that room and from earlier club dates often mentioned costume changes as much as the set list, which has included Disham, C’est la vie and newer Setiva tracks.
Online reaction split along familiar lines for a young Bulgarian pop act. Some comments praised the confidence and the Sofia styling team. Others said the look was too revealing for a concert billed around emotional songwriting. Ekimova has not issued a statement that names the outfit. In a later bTV interview about Setiva she spoke about sounding more natural and less masked in the new songs. That conversation did not dwell on hemlines.
Readers who follow Bulgarian entertainment country by country can find related items at https://fashiontalktoday.com/. In Ekimova’s case the confirmed record is the concert dates, the credited stylists and costume designers, and the pattern of attention whenever her stage clothes become more revealing. Captions that call the look “shocking” or “the boldest yet” remain fan language, not a verdict from the singer or her label, Virginia Records.
No Bulgarian newsroom has published a full garment-by-garment inventory of the most recent date, and some circulating stills are cropped or lit in ways that exaggerate the cut. The attention is still real. In a market where live pop is built around a handful of Sofia rooms and summer-tour halls, a daring concert outfit is treated as news because it is part of how the night is sold. Ekimova’s team has not announced a change of stylist. The next test is whether the same silhouette returns on the next billed Bulgarian date, or whether the Setiva-era shows move to a different stage uniform.
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