Witness History
Witness History
Soviet fashionista
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December 15, 2022
9 minutes
Available for over a year
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.
This programme was first broadcast in 2018.
(Photo: A sketch of a dress designed by Slava Zaitsev. Credit: Slava Zaitsev)