Natalia Valevskaya (fashion designer)

Natalia Valevskaya

Moscow Fashion Week, 2009
Born the Countess Natalia Valevskaya
(1978-06-03)3 June 1978
Moscow, Russia
Nationality Russian
Occupation Fashion designer
Labels Natalia Valevskaya

Natalia Valevskaya, born on 3 June 1978, is a Russian Haute Couture fashion designer and art historian. She has been producing garments under the brand NATALIA VALEVSKAYA since 1998. Valevskaya has also been the designer of garments for the participants of several international beauty contests, Russian music shows and festivals. For several years Natalia Valevskaya has been a fashion critic and reporter for the Russian magazine OK!. Currently she is a regular columnist of a Russian Internet magazine Posta da VIP. Natalia Valevskaya is a member of the Russian Artists Union.

Early life

Natalia Valevskaya was born on June 3, 1978.

As a school student, Natalia Valevskaya attended courses in reconstructive goldwork at the Moscow Kremlin.

Education

Natalia Valevskaya received her first diploma at the Moscow State Law Academy. Valevskaya acquired a second higher education at the Moscow State University where she majored in Fashion Theory and Management. Valevskaya also completed courses in Fashion Marketing and Promotion in New York. She did a three-year course on scenography and historical costumes at the Mayakovsky Theatre. Currently Natalia is seeking postgraduate degree at the Moscow State University in Semiotics of Art.

Fashion

Natalia Valevskaya Fashion House was opened in 1998.

In spring 2008 Natalia's fashion show opened the Russian Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. In autumn of the same year Natalia Valevskaya has been invited personally by the president of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to show her sollection at the Fashion Week in Buenos Aires.

Selected projects:

Journalism

Valevskaya's reviews are published in various Russian magazines, including OK!, Telenedelya, SNC (formerly Sex and the City). Currently Valevskaya is a regular author of the Fashion column in a Russian online magazine Posta da VIP.

Art history

Museum of Fashion and Costume History

Since mid 2000's, Valevskaya has been performing scientific research which could become the basis for the first Russian Museum of Fashion and Costume History.

Exhibition of embroidered Orthodox Icons

"Faith, Hope, Love and Sophia" - an Orthodox icon created by Natalia Gorkovenko's studio

On March 15, 2012 Natalia Valevskaya supervised the opening of embroidered Orthodox icons exhibition at the Museum of Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.[2] The exhibition consisted of works by an art studio created by Natalia Gorkovenko. In mds 2000's Gorkovenko and her apprentices started the revival of an ancient Russian tradition of religious goldwork and jem embroidery. Every icon required several women working on it for 3–7 months. The ready icons have been framed in modern molding or in restored ancient kiots (icon cases). The studio hires an antiquer who restores wooden kiots and gold-plated casings.

One of the icons made by Natalia Gorkovenko's studio resides in the Tikvinsky chantry of The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. All the icons of the exhibition have been created under the blessing of Russian Orthodox Church and with abidance by all religious rules and rituals. The opening of the exhibition has been blessed by Kirill, the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'.

References

  1. ↑ Presentation of Piaget jewelry collection - Limelight Garden Party, 2011 (Russian language)
  2. ↑ 1TV report from the opening ceremony of embroidered icons exhibition
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