Russian Fashion Week

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Russian Fashion Week Fashion Week in Moscow

• By Marina Shatalova.

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• Both Russian Fashion Week and Moscow Fashion
  Week take place in the capital of Russia, Moscow,
  where the russian fashion is mostly concentrated.

The concept of Fashion Week in Moscow is
based of the organization of Fashion Weeks in
Paris, New York, London, and Milan.
The RFW basics are Russian designers, but
every season sees the best designers from former
Soviet republics Ukraine, Byelorussia,
Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Georgia, etc.
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• Russian Fashion Week is proud to have partnership
  with fashion weeks in Italy, China, Canada, South
  Africa, New Zealand, Spain,  Portugal, Mexico,
  Greece, Croatia, India, Czech Republic, Norway,
  Sweden, Malaysia.  
• At this stage RFW organizing committee is
  globalizing its achievements on Russian market
  and at the same time co-producing Fashion Weeks
  in St. Petersburg and other Russian cities and
  former USSR capitals.

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• Fashion Week in Moscow dates back to 1994.
   For the first ten years, this event was
  concentrated on the presentation of haute couture
  collections from Russian designers and leading
  fashion houses. After 2003, however, Fashion Week
  has changed its format and now takes place twice
  a year (at the end of March and October) and
  involves the presentation of prêt-a-porter
  clothes.

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Valentin Yudashkin.

• The first Russian designer to be accepted to the
  Paris Fashion Syndicate, Valentin Yudashkin is a
  celebrity both at home and abroad. He is always
  trying to make the beauty of Russian culture
  shine through his creations, which is perhaps why
  he was chosen to design the Russian team uniforms
  for the Atlanta Olympic Games. His collections,
  some of which are exhibited in the Louvre Museum
  and the International Olympic Museum, are
  inspired by Russian culture.

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Natalia Vodianova history of success

• She was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod,
  Russia's fourth largest city), on February 28th,
  1982.
• Vodianova had a difficult childhood. Since she
  was 11, Vodianova helped her mother with her
  small business she moved into her own apartment
  with a friend at 15 and started her own
  fruit-stall business. She was thus able to help
  out her sisters, one of whom is disabled.
• At the same time she enrolled in modeling
  academy and started going to castings. Her bad
  knowledge of English was the only barrier on her
  way to a professional model carrier.
• Convinced that her life would change for the
  better, Vodianova learned English in three
  months, moved to Paris and signed up with the
  Viva agency at age 17. Soon, Gucci made her the
  new face for their perfume line.

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After working at more than 40 runway shows, she
was hired to appear in Calvin Klein's spring
show. Around this time she also made a brief
appearance in Roman Coppola's film CQ, with Billy
Zane.

According to Forbes, Vodianova is ranked as
the seventh highest-earning model in the world
after Carolyn Murphy, Alessandra Ambrosio,
Adriana Lima, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss and Gisele
Bündchen. Her earnings for the past year were in
the order of 4.5 million. She was ranked
14th in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
Vodianova has done campaigns for, Louis
Vuitton, L'Oreal, Marc Jacobs, Miss Sixty, Pepe
Jeans, and Calvin Klein's collection and his
fragrance, "Euphoria".
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• Now Natalia Vodianova is married and has
  three children

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"I have done it. I have everything I want. I have
made enough money to secure my family and that is
all I care about."
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Professionals talking

• Suzy Menkes
• - Russian fashion is still searching for
  an identity in a world that has moved so
  brutally from Pravda to Prada. And it has not
  yet gained the international recognition that
  has made the country's alabaster-skinned
  beauties, such as Natalia Vodianova, into the
  world's current top models.
• Alla Verber (MERCURY) - Russian Fashion
  Week has got its position in the row of the
  most important fashion events in Russia. Its
  experience is extremely important because RFW
  introduces designer fashion throughout the
  country and help to reveal new talents in
  fashion art field and develops Russian fashion
  abroad.

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