Natalia Valevskaya (fashion designer)

Countess

Natalia Valevskaya (fashion designer)

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 exclusive garments under the brand NATALIA VALEVSKAYA since 1998. Intil 2009, all her collections have been presented at the Moscow Fashion Week. Natalia 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. This activity has significantly influenced her future art. Many of the dresses Natalia has created in the coming years have been richly decorated with beautiful embroidery.

Education

Natalia Valevskaya received her first diploma at the Moscow State Law Academy. Later Natalia made a decision to devote hel life to fashion design and acquired a second higher education at the Moscow State University where she majored in Fashion Theory and Management. During the next years Natalia has finished courses in Fashion Marketing and Promotion in New York. Also, she went through three-year courses 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 has been created in 1998. Each creation of this fashion house is an exclusive garment of highest quality that draws the eye and fully complies with haute couture standards. All garments are hand-crafted. Only the most luxurious and sometimes exclusive materials, furs and leathers are used. Decoration with natural pearls, corals, malachite, turquoise, golden and silver threads makes each dress practically a piece of art.

Collections by Natalia Valevskaya have been regularly shown during the Moscow Fashion Week in different years. 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. Garments by Natalia Valevskaya are very popular among Russian celebrities and socialites.

Several years ago Natalia has started working on her first prêt-à-porter collection which shall be released shortly.

Most significant projects:

Journalism

Natalia Valevskaya was one of the pioneers in Russian fashion criticism. Having adopted this genre from foreign media, Natalia started writing reviews of Russian celebrities' outfits for local press. Her reviews were published in various Russian magazines, including OK!, Telenedelya, SNC (formerly Sex and the City). Also, Natalia is the author of numerous interviews with famous people of all sorts from around the world: people of art, fashion designers, socialites, diplomats and many others.

Currently Natalia is a regular author of the Fashion column in a Russian online magazine Posta da VIP. Among Natalia's texts are reports from the new Moscow shops of global brands, interviews with world-famous fashion designers and managers.

Art history

Museum of Fashion and Costume History

Since mid 2000's, Natalia has been performing scientific research which should later become tha besis for the first Russian Museum of Fashion and Costume History. This is also the subject of Natalia's dissertation. Considering the global experience, Natalia emphasizes the necessity of such an institute in Russia. Once created, the museum and research centre based on it will not only become public heritage, but will also be the source of information and experience for fashion industry specialists. Today costumes and accessories are mostly parts of larger expositions in different museums, or are represented by small private collections which are exhibited around the world for a short period of time. The future Museum of Fashion and Costume History will become a permanent repository and exhibition space for such objects, as well as a research centre.

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 mis 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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