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 Russian Fashion Week (RFW)
Oct 18-25, 2006 |
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Russian Fashion Week changes Venue
Gorky Park promises more Space and Opportunities
Moscow, Russia (October 18, 2006) – This date marks the start of Russian Fashion Week (October 18-25), the biggest event of its kind in Eastern Europe and one of the most unique in Russia. For this Spring/Summer 2007 season, RFW has moved to a new location in the center of Moscow: Gorky Park. This new location will give the show organizers an opportunity to provide a bigger space and invite more top designers to present their collections to the Russian and international press. Among the countries represented in the tents and on the catwalks will be Ukraine, Byelorussia, Peru, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, the US and of course, Russia.
 Opening RFW was a press conference held by Producer General Alexander Shumsky and official partners Pantene Pro-V and Motorola. “We have changed our address which marks a critical shift for us as our old venue exhausted itself,” states Shumsky. “The growth that led to Gorky Park makes us the biggest fashion event in Russia. With so many designers from across the world presenting, every meter and corner added is most useful.”
The switch to Gorky Park continues a season of change on the international stage: Milan Fashion Week changed locations in order to improve production conditions facilities. The location of New York Fashion Week faces an uncertain future as the venue, Bryant Park, has a commitment that only goes through the coming season.
On the first day kicked off the shows of Alexander Vassiliev (who hails from Ukraine), Kusso, SokolovaBogorodskaya, Anastasia Z, Frankie Morello and a participant of Milan Fashion Week last September – Max Chernitsov. International representative of the first day was a Greece Fashion Week participant Angelos Frentzos.
A supporter of young talent, RFW will also feature five representatives of “Ruskyi Silhouette” – the fashion contest for young designers. In addition, International Day will feature American designers presenting in cooperation with TSUM, including: Laundry by Shelli Segal, Rebecca Taylor, Catherine Malandrino and Baby Phat, which also showed at New York Olympus Fashion Week this past September.
For more information, please, contact Artefact Communications Agency:
Kseniia Ponomarenko
24/2 Tverskaya St., Bldg. 1
Moscow 103009 Russia
Tel: +7 (495) 232-3903/04
Fax: +7 (495) 209-2696
ponomarenko@artefact.ru
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