Cycles and Seasons by MasterCard - shows: Day 2 and 3

Inshade SS 2012

Photos: Victor Boyko

Sergey Surkov, stylist

The collection is very fresh and beautiful. Stunning colors, draperies, emphasizing the beauty of the body. Turbans - another reference to the Eastern theme, which we already observed yesterday at Teplova. It seems that the debut on Cycles and Seasons was a success, and from a commercial point of view, I think, the collection will be very successful.

Lena Mozhaeva and Maxim Shestakov, stylists

The collection is rather monotonous, so calm ethnics, East, although you could add something else. In general, so far everything resembles only the development of a collection and does not yet reach a full one. Let's see how it will be sold.

Maria Chertkova, accessories designer

I do not know what exactly Masha (Smirnova, designer Inshade. - Approx. ed.) I wanted to say all this, but I introduced the topic of Indian spices, earth, desert. I liked this collection much more than last summer - it is more professional, and things from it can be easily taken and worn, without thinking twice about the image. Laconic and cool, because every thing is finished.

Daria Marchik, photo artist

From clothes, I am waiting for the perfect not of what we were shown, and yet, I suddenly liked it. The show was very atmospheric, probably due to references to some tribal motifs. And yet still noticed that the models in white dresses had black underwear, and vice versa?

Stella Ndombi SS 2012

Photos: Stas Alekseev for the blog kyklamasha.com

Oksana He, Glamor Senior Fashion Editor

Despite the fact that I am very skeptical of the Russian fashion, I just worship this brand. They pay incredible attention to detail, material, plus a design that speaks for itself. And what we just saw is 100% mine: a controversial, feminine, extravagant mix.

Dmitry Shabalin, blogger

The collection looks like a mixture of all that we saw at last Fashion Week in Paris, but the most interesting here is the lace and the choice of hats (I have a weakness for them). This is probably the best show on Cycles and Seasons.

Nikita Manin, photographer

I knew Stella in childhood - we played tennis together, and then I come to photograph backstage and find out that she does such amazing things. It is clear that we all draw inspiration from someone higher, and some bows remind painfully, but they are interesting in their own way, because they are interpreted differently.

Georgiy Rushev, accessories designer

If it were not for the music, the atmosphere would be exactly like in the shows of Marc Jacobs. In the end, when we looked at Stella herself, it became clear where all these images and this style came from. The collection has very good detail, visible work with materials. Russian designers mainly work with basic forms, and here we finally saw the texture, details and hats.

Natasha Sych, stylist

The idea of a quick show is brilliant: the models quickly go out, quickly line up, the designer goes quickly, and you get a quick buzz from fashion. I really did not consider the details, so I still have this whole extravaganza before my eyes. The guys are great fellows.

Vika Gazinskaya SS 2012

Photos: R.E.D. View the full show on R.E.D.

Ksenia Tarakanova, Vconfession.com

Vika is a designer who is ahead of the trend and always goes one step ahead. She always does something that the rest will do only tomorrow, but this collection seemed restless to me, as if Vika were carrying her very hard. It is less solid than previous collections.

Olya Thompson, designer

There were a lot of interesting dresses, interesting conversations between graphics and drawing. The brightest dresses are those with the most pronounced sculptural forms and volume. My favorite is with a top of fine fabric with blue polka dots falling from the shoulders. Diamonds are probably too theatrical for everyday life, but at the show it is quite acceptable

Maria Zheleznyakova, stylist

Vika is the best Russian designer and stylist, and what happened this season is the best proof of that. Particularly pleased that her collections will now be sold not only in the Paris Colette: a request from the New York Barneys recently came - this is very important. It would be ideal with this collection to get to the market. It's great that there are a lot of guests here at Vika Gazinskaya, that is, the brand does not just stay on the podium, but it is really worn

Maria Korobkevich, designer Pure Joy

Finally, Vika found the right balance between her own style and the wearability of things. Divine prints simply carried the whole collection onto a new level - everything is very beautiful and very fresh. Vika is a very talented and hard-working person, and this collection has become a new big step forward, with which I sincerely congratulate her.

Vitaly Kozak

I have already told Vika that for me this collection is a step through two steps. She is clever and has worked very well: keeping her handwriting and not changing herself at all, she made a very powerful jerk. The only thing, it seems to me that it was better to keep such a collection secret before the show and not to publish a lookbook so that there was intrigue