Fashion designer Slava Zaitsev dies at 85

Fashion designer Slava Zaitsev died at the age of 85. He became a spokesperson for the Moscow-based fashion house, confirming the news to AFP. When he saw her with her friends to celebrate her birthday in March, “we could already see that he was very very weak“.

Slava Zaïtsev was born into a humble family in 1938 in Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow. It was her mother who taught him the basics of the trade.

“When I was a child, my mother taught me to embroider so I wouldn’t wander aimlessly on the street. In the evening we gathered flowers from Lenin Avenue with girlfriends and drew them and reproduced these drawings with embroidery. This is how I met art.“, he told AFP.

The fashion designer, who created more than a thousand models, was especially known for his dresses that took the patterns of his country’s traditional shawls. “I can dress up an entire parade in Red Square with my clothes“, Slava Zaïtsev said in an interview with AFP in 2017.

His nickname”red diorcomes from a comparison by the magazine paris match. He had indeed compared it to “”.a Soviet Christian Dior“fashion magazine fashion He was nicknamed in 1988, “Soviet fashion czar“. Zaitsev had to obey the laws of the communist regime and was not allowed to practice his profession outside of the USSR and Czechoslovakia. Between 2007 and 2009 “fashion’s decision” that several stylists had to recreate the housewives.

Since his death was announced, tributes have come, such as the Russian channel Pervy Kanal, who wished to honor him. “Fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev passed away. He celebrated his 85th birthday this year.“announced before adding that it has”An innovator who has dictated Soviet and Russian fashion for decades, not afraid of bold experiments“.

Russian fashion designer and stylist Sergei Zverev also wanted to pay tribute to her. “A great loss for the global fashion world.she admitted.

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