Long-legged men and women will slip in and out of their clothes as fast as they can close to the Kremlin, as Moscow Fashion Week takes over Gostiny Dvor and dozens of designers from Russia and abroad show off next year's spring and summer collections.
This year's theme is "The Monarchy of Fashion in Moscow," and visitors
can see the whole gamut of local designers from veterans such as
Valentin Yudashkin and Igor Chapurin, who will open and close the week,
to up-and-coming designers like Max Chernitsov and Antonina
Shapovalova, who has designed pro-Putin bikinis for the Kremlin-backed
youth group Nashi.
There was no word on who was queen, king or
even a simple baron, 227th in line to the throne, in this Moscow
fashion monarchy. Among the other Russian designers on display are
Alexander Terekhov -- who trained under Yves Saint Laurent and has had
shows in New York -- Alexander Arngoldt, Elena Teplitskaya and Sergey
Sysoyev.
Alexander Natrushkin / Reuters
