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The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

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Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union. He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced working under communism.

Photo: a sketch of a dress designed by Slava Zaitsev; credit: courtesy of Slava Zaitsev.

Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.

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