Russian clothing brands: Who is behind them and why we are proud of them
Despite keen interest from the Western fashion community to the "post-Soviet" aesthetics, in Russia there is still no influential fashion week, or even a fashion industry formed. Young enthusiasts invent and sell their things rather in spite of the current situation. We talk about the most interesting Russian designers.
10 neo-romantic Russian stamps
The genre of intellectual romance diversified the collections of Russian designers immediately after the interest in minimalism began to decline. We tell about the most remarkable - POLYHEDRON, Kuraga, Lights on Mars and others.
Artist Dima Shabalin about masks at the intersection of fashion and art
The colorful masks of Shabalin’s authorship were assembled from details that were completely random at first glance — from children’s toys and old garlands given by friends to baking forms — and have already visited the main Moscow museums and the Paris Grand Palais.
5 Russian brands that do not share clothing and art
We chose young artists, for whom design remains a field for experimentation, contrary to the emerging trend towards universality - we talk about Factive Face, February First, Evgenia Barkova, Natalia Timofeeva and Masha Lamzina
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Why you should be proud of Russian fashion
Young Russian designers are learning to declare themselves loudly on their own. As did, for example, Nestor Rotsen, who recently showed a collection with mothers of Beslan, or Outlaw Moscow, who won a few years ago in a competition organized by SHOWstudio
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Why Nestor Rotsen dedicated a fashionable collection to Beslan mothers
Nestor studies in the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry at the Department of Design and works as a staff photographer at the Theater.doc. He dedicated the first "adult" collection to the terrorist attack in Beslan school No. 1 and the events that occurred at the bottom of the memory two years ago
Who invented Goldmans - the first street brand for women in Russia
Julia is an artist, Zhenya is once a professional snowboarder. In their clothes, they use provocative inscriptions and drawings, but they do not refer to topical slogans on clothes as a marketing move, and prefer big money to work
7 Russian designers using handmade and vintage fabrics
The author of the brand Jahnkoy Masha Kazakova is one of the brightest representatives of the global trend: today young designers do not set themselves the goal of “becoming a new Zara” and instead go headlong into researching the traditions of the past. We are still talking about seven interesting brands.
Russian brands that should look for office clothes
The most uncovered segment is still “office fashion” - clothes that can be entered into a modern, not too strict dress code. But here, too, over the past couple of years, there have been advances - we are talking about brands that we should look for a base for office everyday life.
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