24th season of Defile Na Neve fashion week in St Petersburg has just ended and as I’m browsing through the runway pictures at their website I can’t help gritting my teeth with disappointment. Evidently, in a city with a population of only 4.5 million people there is no place for two fashion weeks. Defile is [Continue reading...]

One of the world’s leading travel magazines launched in Russia featuring Natalia Vodianova on the cover of its very first, October 2011 issue. The launch of Traveller follows the successful launches of Vogue, GQ, Glamour and AD in Russia. It will be positioned as the most respected source on luxury travel experiences catering to the [Continue reading...]

Vogue Russia published a special edition fully dedicated to ballet. The love story between fashion and ballet started a long while ago. Fashion designers sought inspiration in famous ballet shows and/or designed costumes for the stage (take Coco Chanel, for example), prima ballerinas set fashion trends… One cannot imagine the 20th century [Continue reading...]

“Fashion+Design. Spray Fabrican” project by Manel Torres will be shown at Moscow Design Week that takes part Oct 11 – 16. A Spanish fashion designer, Manel Torres has developed the world’s first spray-on clothing that can be worn, washed and worn again. His invention is called Fabrican and was discovered out of frustration [Continue reading...]

An interview with Chapurin under a curious title ‘No More Gzhel and Fur Hats!’ http://www.russia-ic.com/ppl_articles/interviews/1450/ Well, I can tell that he is older than me because I remember none of those. I don’t remember “Soviet uniformity” mentioned in the article either… At the time I went to school and [Continue reading...]