Moscow Fashion Week F/W 08-09 - Overview

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I felt that some coverage to Moscow's FW should be given, seeing as they are becoming such major players in the global stage.

Moscow Fashion Week: Valentin Yudashkin’s show


After the official ceremony, the guests were given a chance to appreciate “Neo-Gothic,” the new Fall/Winter 2008-2009 pret-a-porter collection by Yudashkin.


The new modern perception of elegance is illustrated by exquisite ensembles made of high-quality natural fabrics.


Tight pants are still trendy, and jeans-style pockets are used as decoration.


Yudashkin’s collection features skirts ranging from mini to long as usual.


Low-neck dresses with asymmetrical straps; the designer also lavishly used ripple satin to decorate unusual necklines.


Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov with his wife, Yelena Baturina, Russia’s richest woman according to Forbes, were invited as guests of honor.


Different textures are combined exquisitely.


Outdoor wear is moderately austere and stylish. The coats are trapeze-shaped, and fur coats have classical silhouettes.


Evening gowns are mostly long, made of fine lace, with flowing elements with metallic effects.


Most dresses have high necks in the front and deep V-backs accented with flowing fabric.


The special guest of the show joined Yudashkin on the runway – Minnie-Mouse, the well known Disney character, wearing an outfit he designed as part of a high-profile program dedicated to the cartoon’s anniversary.


Minnie’s appearance was followed by models wearing white T-shirts with Minnie-Mouse prints.


The opening ceremony of the Moscow Fashion Week on March 22 featured the showing of a new collection by famous designer Valentin Yudashkin and attracted many celebrities.

It's not that great but whatever....
source: http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20080325/102115928_13.html

 

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Fashion week in Moscow: Pirates on the catwalk. RIA Novosti video
Newcomers and well-known fashion designers mix together at Moscow’s current fashion week. A video report by RIA Novosti correspondent Irina Parfyonova. (108 sec./3.93Mb, shows: 144)
http://en.rian.ru/video/20080327/102396621.html

 

[jjbunny79]

look very interesting

 

[MyNameIs]

The long gowns are really beautiful. Especially the first one and the last two.

 

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Russia Challenges West … on Runway

By Peter Piatetsky

A creation by Russian designer Antonina Shapovalova. (Photo: Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)

Paris, Milan, New York. Moscow?
Russian designers are now wrapping up their own fashion week, hoping that with the country’s new wealth and growing taste for fine clothes that they can begin to attract the kind of attention that has long been showered on their European counterparts.
It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.
Russian models, such Natalia Vodianova, have gained widespread acclaim in recent years, while several designers, including Aleksandr Terekhov and Denis Simachev, have become regulars in Milan and New York and opened stores from Kuwait to Japan to the United States.
The rise of the fashion industry has been fueled by the strong economy, itself a beneficiary of high oil prices, as well as a fashion-conscious public. Visitors to Moscow and St. Petersburg are often startled at how well-dressed Russian women are when compared to Americans. The domestic clothing market has been growing at 20 percent a year, and people here spend twice as much as other Europeans on clothes.
This year’s Fashion Week in Moscow featured prominent homegrown designers, who are trying to emerge after years of being overshadowed by Western labels.
Valentin Yudashkin and Igor Chapurin used their collections to emphasize the luxury and symbolism that seems to accompany anything linking Russia to its imperial past.
“Russian fashion has been given back to us, it’s arrived,” Mr. Yudashkin said.
Industry experts say the focus on Czarist themes could reflect a certain maturity within Russian fashion, and its new style and stars have moved past earlier incoherence when designers would throw fur at a jacket and call it haute couture.
A Czarist theme is also present in the new uniforms for Russia’s military, which Mr. Yudashkin and Mr. Chapurin designed and which are supposed to be “sexier” and more fashionable than Soviet style uniforms.
Mr. Yudashkin is popular not only with the public and the military, but also with the wife of Dmitri A. Medvedev, Russia’s next president, Svetlana, who is said to be a regular customer.
Of course, while it is unlikely that Moscow will eclipse Milan or New York as a capital of haute couture any time soon, Russian designers have already achieved one sign of success: they have to worry about counterfeiters.

source: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/russia-challenges-west-on-fashion-week/