“Why show during Couture and not ready-to-wear? …In Russia, we don’t have any fashion industry. It’s really difficult to organize the process of making ready-to-wear clothes, so we have to make couture clothes. We are doing everything in one building. All our embroidered buttons, all our shoes. We are trying to find people [Continue reading...]

I have something in common with Ulyana Sergeenko. No, not beauty! but thank you :) The devotion to Russian style. What is Russian style, anyway? What comes to your mind when you hear these words? There aren’t too many glamorous subjects to play with that would be distinctively Russian. But Ms Sergeenko tricked everybody and [Continue reading...]

Ulyana Sergeenko is set to become the 4th Russian designer to produce haute couture collections (if my count is correct). The show is not on the official schedule but I’m sure it will be a huge deal. The Haute Couture F/W 2012-13 collection would be Ulyana’s third. The show will take place on Tuesday, July [Continue reading...]

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Bespoke luxury shoemaking is a domain of a very few; it is and always has been a fairy-tale that only a handful of artisans around the world have ever been capable of making come true. Caroline Groves, a London-based bespoke shoemaker with more than 25 years of experience, unmatched craft skills and a unique eye [Continue reading...]