2023-04-30 18:32:00
Published on 30.04.2023
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The famous Russian fashion designer Vyacheslav (Slava) Zaïtsev, nicknamed the “Red Dior”, died Sunday at the age of 85, told AFP the spokeswoman for his fashion house in Moscow.
“Yes”, he died, Kira Bourenina told AFP, confirming information from Russian media. At the beginning of March, when he “gathered his friends for his birthday, we might already see that he was very, very weak,” she said.
The Russian public channel Pervy Kanal paid tribute to this man “who dictated Soviet and Russian fashion for decades, an innovator who was not afraid of daring experiments”.
The couturier, who created more than a thousand models during his career, had made himself known in the world with his dresses using the flamboyant patterns of the traditional shawls of his country.
“I can dress a whole parade on Red Square with my clothes…”, said Slava Zaïtsev in 2017 in an interview with AFP.
In 1963, the French weekly Paris Match, then a major photo magazine, compared him to a Soviet Christian Dior.
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