Fashion shows from the department named after. N.G. Mizonova graced the “Night of Museums”

Three fashion shows at once from the Department of Costume Design and Textiles named after. N.G. Mizonova were held as part of the “Night of Museums” event on May 18: at the Ivanovo Calico Museum, at the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum and at the Tsvetaev Family Museum.

The experimental show “From shushpan to sweatshirt. Mixing of times” at the Ivanovo Calico Museum combined the works of reenactor Nadezhda Starkova and fashion designer, associate professor of the department Ksenia Demyanenko. Nadezhda studies and collects ethnographic costumes. For the show, she presented her products, recreated in a historical cut: panevas, povoiniki, urbuses, shirts, cufflink aprons, single-row shirts and much more. The items in the show, which take us back to the 17th and 18th centuries, were stylistically easily combined with models from Ksenia Demyanenko’s clothing collections: modern urban coats with prints, jackets and hoodies with embroideries.

A whole group of our students introduced visitors to the art museum to the richness of Russian culture, traditions and artistic heritage with a modern twist. In the show “Red-colorful: in search of Russian style,” Daria Soldatenkova (“Mysteries”), Dmitry Balebin (“Addiction”), Stefania Novikova (“When the Fern Blooms”), Antonina Karapapas (“The Light of My Eyes”) presented their collections and Alena Tolcheeva (“Manufacturers”). And at the Tsvetaev family museum there was a show of Irina Mosaleva’s collection “I fell in love with you...”, dedicated to Marina Tsvetaeva, a poet with a difficult fate.

The students were supported by the project leaders - head of the department Olga Surikova, teachers Ksenia Demyanenko, Tatyana Shcherbakova and Alena Marycheva, as well as IVGPU rector Evgeny Rumyantsev. Presenting the authors of the collections at the art museum, he noted that our young designers have excellent opportunities for creativity and rely on the unique traditions of the Ivanovo school of textile design. As always, participants from the ART PLAY modeling agency added sparkle to the shows. Makeup and hairstyles were done by the masters of Yulia Vitushkina's "Paints" School of Makeup, and beauty images also became part of the show.