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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/goods/style/2008/05/13/Russian-Fashio
| F or years, Russian fashion has been considered a contradiction in terms, something akin to the Wendy's Soviet Fashion Show ad , in which a stocky, kerchiefed woman repeatedly marches down a runway in a gray smock. Jump to 2008 and the world of 15-year-old designer Kira Plastinina. It's stocked with sheer dresses, gravity-defying black tutus, and bubblegum-pink accessories. Already famous in Russia for her rich father, heiress friends, and position designing clothes for the Russian edition of American Idol , Plastinina opened her first U.S. store in New York's SoHo on May 2. Meanwhile, Veronika Jeanvie just teamed up with mentor Paco Rabanne to become the first Ukrainian designer to debut a collection in the U.S. Moscovite Alexander Terekhov is a fixture at New York's fashion week, with four seasons of well-attended shows under his belt. Russian designers Valentin Yudashkin, Denis Simachev, and Igor Chapurin—some of the better-known names in Russia—show their collections in Europe. "The world is shifting," says Fern Mallis, organizer of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in New York and Los Angeles . "Russia, India, and China—that's where more people are making money now, and they can afford to fund and show collections abroad." Fifteen years ago, no one but Yudashkin was known outside the region. In 1991, he was invited to Paris Fashion Week and, after presenting a collection of dresses inspired by Fabergé eggs, beca ... |
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