“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...]

Do they produce resort collections in Russia and Ukraine? Yes, they do! Here is one made by Ukrainian designer Kostya Omelya for his eponymous label. His inspiration was water as an element of nature, and indeed these designs seem to have the ability to transform any woman to a mermaid. OMELYA atelier is a young [Continue reading...]

An Ukrainian label with a hard-to-pronounce name used collage technique to present its F/W 2012 collection. Isn’t it just an awesome idea? If I were a buyer , this lookbook would be the one to keep. [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...]