This is what you can call paper dress design at its best. Russian creatives Ilya Plotnikov and Alexandra Zaharova, the heads behind the Studio Doberman, are famous for their extraordinary and high-class design work. For L`OFFICIEL Magazine, the duo created those amazing paper dresses which were meant to support the presented jewelry. (more…)

The great thing about upcoming designers is that the good ones quite stir the fashion-web even without having a website or public portfolio. When KB posted a magazine scan from Russian Vogue, Jen from knit kicks did some research and BANG – Russian knit-designer Irina Shaposhnikova who studied at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts – stood in the online-limelight.

Several Blogs and Fashion sites featured her work as a student and continued when Irina Shaposhnikova surprised again with her outstanding graduate collection “Crystallographica”. No matter if she knits or does other handicrafts, her fashion is art and her art is wearable. Don´t miss to glance at the “Crystallographica” Collection here.

Photos via Knit Kicks. Others about Irina Shaposhnikova: le-be, today and tomorrow, Fashion Copious.

Every Christmas, my dad sorts the manifold components of our Lego empire. Three children and one dad who is crazy for building and constructing – this fact bestowed a room full of small parts made of plastics on my family. Unfortunately, the Lego isn´t really used, besides the Christmassy sorting-meditation of my dad. My brothers and me, we are grown up now, but not so much grown, that grand-children might come in sight. I wonder, if it could make sense, to abet my dad to do street art actions like Jan Vormann. At least, our neighborhood would get a colorful make-over and my dad…he would finally have a REAL reason to sort his Lego pieces every single Christmas.

The shown Lego artwork occurred in Bocchignano, a village next to Rome as part of a group project calles “20 Eventi”. German Artist Jan Vorman started his studies in Berlin and moved to St. Petersburg in 2007 to work, live and study in Russia. Last, he was presented at St. Petersburg C.A.G. Gallery with „Vo chto my igraem zavtra? With what are we playing tomorrow? “.

Photos via Jan Vormann

In Moskow, Denis Simachev calls the shots at least when it comes to fashion. Last year, he experimented with sowjet-symbols and created a T-Shirt on which Putin´s Portrait was respledenting ramed by stitched flowers. The partyfolk and fashionists loved it.
His summer collection is inspired by the romance of the road and puts on the man as thrilling, independent Dandy-Gipsy-Gangster. The text in the press release couches it in nice terms: (more…)