Russian Fashion Week: International Designers’ Day
Due to the tradition, not only local designers but also foreign guests attended the Russian Fashion Week in Moscow. Today we will introduce the autumn-winter collections of 2010-2011, presented at the RFW by British brands Osman, Eley Kishimoto and PPQ as well as by Ndombi Stella brand from Congo.
Afghan designer Osman Yousefzada has created a rather complex collection, full of various geometric shapes, which change the view of traditional proportions and volumes. After all, the fashion designer calls himself an “ethno-architect”. Osman Yusefzada does not deny the black color traditional to the autumn-winter season, but proposes to make it secondary, preferring soft pastel palette. The main colors dominating in his new collection are ash-grey, crimson, lemon-yellow, pale blue, beige. Different shades of pink and fuchsia shine with bright spots in the collection.
Dresses of the Eley Kishimoto british brand are created by the famous designers Marc Eley and the japanese Vakako Kishimoto – for the good mood in the coming autumn-winter season, they offer striking/bright models, adorned with the richest colors, multicolored patterns and ethnic motives. A simple cut and unpretentious silhouettes by Eley Kishimoto are compensated with complex prints, which decorate not only dresses, tops and skirts, but also stockings and tights.
In the autumn-winter collection of 2010-2011 from PPQ designers Percy Parker and Amy Molino included mainly chic evening gowns. An infinite number of variations on the theme of the little black dress the designers decorated with golden draperies, epaulettes, straps and rivets. The designers confessed that this collection is addressed to lovers of various parties and social events, and sources of inspiration were the “icons of style” of previous years (Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor), as well as the rock and roll sentiments of London. That is why there are only two colors in the PPQ collection – black and gold. Combining different fabrics and textures (velvet, silk, satin, leather, fur, fringe), designers create compound outfits, exquisite silhouettes which will be equally appropriate on the red carpet and at a party in a club. Dresses from PPQ are selected by many stars not in vain: Lily Allen, Peaches Geldof, Lindsay Lohan.
The last defile of the “foreign day” at the Russian Fashion Week was the collection of Ndombi Stella brand, created by the model Stella Ndombe from Congo and the stylist Alisher. The new autumn / winter collection was called Boxer Second Skin, since during its creation the designers were inspired by different martial arts and boxing. Seductive tops, shorts, tight pants made of contrasting leather, wide belts – compulsory attributes of sport style turn into ultrafashionable things in the collection of Ndombi Stella, without losing relevance for several consecutive seasons. According to Stella and Alisher next aumumn is going to be sports glamour, flavored with self-irony . As for the guests of the day of foreign designers at RFW, shows of foreign fashion designers gathered a lot of stars in Moscow, including Philip Kirkorov, Anna Semenovich, Anastasia Stotskaya, Anita Tsoi, Lada Dance, Yana Lebedeva, Ekaterina Polozova, Ekaterina Odintsova and many others.
