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Victor Yevtukhov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia
The Ministry of Industry opens the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia with the day of industrial collections.
And this exhibition has been chosen as a platform, this forum has been chosen not by chance.
It is one of the oldest, if I am not mistaken, such events in the Russian Federation, established in 2000 and focused on showing and supporting Russian fashion designers, that certainly is very important for us.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia is one of the major fashion weeks in Eastern Europe.
Every year about 60-70 designers participate in it, 90% of them are representatives of the Russian fashion industry.
For the first time, along with well-known brands we will present Russian serial production, i.e. products of garment industry, our factories, our enterprises.
We hope that our designers who have shown themselves in the West and the East are able to compete with leading fashion houses of the world, they will meet our Russian enterprises and establish productive cooperative contacts.
Alexander Shumsky, president of Fashion Week
In recent five years I have heard from designers, journalists that we have no production in Russia.
Designers say: we cannot produce serial collections, we have no capacities, we have to sew in Italy or China.
In fact the situation is quite different.
We do have production and design. On the one hand, we have famous designers, but they sew only for a narrow group of people, because their garments are expensive.
On the other hand, we have companies who produce clothes commercially and do it in Russia.
Our task is to marry them, combine them and show that designing clothes can be available, while factories can work with such famous designers as Mr. Zaytsev.
Vyacheslav Zaytsev, fashion designer
Nowadays I sift my views toward approaching people, for everybody could buy my clothes.
It is a very interesting project, even though it demands a lot of resources.
Due to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce where new young people, skilful professions work, I think there will be great changes in the sphere.
It is my first cooperation with garment industry for 50 years, and I see people who are really interested in supporting the industry.