In 1956 an array of British design­ers were try­ing to expand their mar­ket share into the Soviet Union. So a fash­ion week of some sort took place  —  in Moscow, Gorky Park, twice daily the shows took place. What a huge suc­cess it was! Every day it was a full house, and the pub­lic were in love […]

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In 1967, when the USSR turned 5o, it was a big day for both the coun­try and the world. The Soviet Union had made it through, despite every­thing  —  and the world now had to take it seri­ously. The Cold War, which was at its high­est at the time, kept the USSR in the spot­light, too, so […]

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The Khrushchev’s Thaw was to cover many aspects of the Soviet life, and fash­ion was  one of them. The deci­sion to allow the Soviet fash­ion design­ers to learn off their French coun­ter­parts was made as high as at the gov­ern­ment level, which implic­itly put fash­ion above pol­i­tics or inter­na­tional ide­o­log­i­cal regimes. The colour of the […]

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Due to a series of not so for­tu­itous events ( the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917, the First World War, the over­all run­down of the young Soviet coun­try) women never had their needs attended to prop­erly. Under­wear was made, first and fore­most, for the work­ing class with no pref­er­en­tial treat­ment for the females so […]

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Haute Cou­ture, just like in any other other coun­try in the world, did have a place in the USSR. How­ever, it was a dif­fer­ent, iso­lated, strange and suf­fer­ing ele­ment, full of its own pecu­liar­i­ties and cat­fights. Two cat­walk mod­els, Leka Mironova and Tatiana Mikhalkova, rem­i­nis­cent about their jobs at the only Fash­ion House back in […]

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Dur­ing the Soviet times fash­ion was first and fore­most, an instru­ment of pro­pa­ganda of hard work atti­tudes and edu­ca­tion of good taste. There­fore the way peo­ple were dressed was very strictly reg­u­lated  –  just like any­thing else, fash­ion had to be “planned” and “approved”.
Offi­cially the most pop­u­lar designs were the clas­sic ones. Not only were they set […]

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