Legendary Lyudmila Gurchenko’s gown by Yudashkin can be seen at the RUSSIA EXPO
A dress from Valentin Yudashkin's Art Deco collection
dedicated to the 1920s is on display at the RUSSIA EXPO in Pavilion 75. This is
the outfit in which Lyudmila Gurchenko starred in the music video "St.
Petersburg Leningrad" with Boris Moiseyev.
Famous
Russian beadwork, richness of shapes and colors, lines emphasizing the beauty
of a woman's body. The RUSSIA EXPO presents a unique collection of
dresses created by the maestro of fashion and style Valentin Yudashkin in
different years.
Here you
can see the famous dress from the Still Life collection of 1993. Then,
15 models came on the catwalk wearing outfits that looked like giant vases,
repeating the shape of a woman's body. The volume was created by hand from
wire, fishing line, silk and brocade.
In the
Vrubel collection of 1997, the maestro turns to the plots of the great Russian
artist. The exposition presents a dress with unique techniques of hand
embroidery of rhinestones, beads, glass beads in the coloristic of the marine
underwater world.
St.
Petersburg inspired the artist to create the Journey from St. Petersburg to
Moscow collection, dedicated to the richest architectural and cultural heritage
of the city. The exposition presents a dress "Cameos and Gems"
made of transparent mesh, decorated with images of priceless exhibits stored in
the Hermitage treasury. The creation of the dress took 2 years. This is a
unique piece of the highest level handmade by the masters of the Valentin
Yudashkin Fashion House.
The RUSSIA
EXPO also presents dresses reproducing the works of French painters Claude
Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, outstanding Flemish painters Anthony Van Dyck and Jan
Vermeer, collections devoted to cabaret, French fashion - more than a dozen
pieces from collections of different periods.
