Costume designers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: Laura Gemser, Slava Zaitsev, Sonia Delaunay, Barbara Karinska, Nicola Formichetti, Julie Taymor, Deborah Hopper, Tony Walton, Aleksandra Ekster, Léon Bakst, Daryl K, Vadym Meller, Arnold Scaasi, Miles White, Nilufer Moayeri, Erté, Natalia Goncharova, Nick Cave, Vladislav Lalicki, Gregg Barnes, Valentina, Susan Matheson, Umberto Tirelli, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Timmy Yip, Paul Zastupnevich, Jenny Beavan, William Travilla, Arthur Frederick Dicks, Freddy Wittop, Agustín Lazo Adalid, Yury Annenkov, Tatjana Radisic, Ann Roth, Motley Theatre Design Group, Mike Ockrent, Paco Jamandreu, Shawna Trpcic, Ngila Dickson, Jacqueline West, Joseph G. Aulisi, Antoni Clavé, Grace Inez Crawford, Kenny Ho, Umberto Brunelleschi, Pitoy Moreno, Richard Whorf, Zena Walker, Lisa Marie Trump, Nicky Gillibrand, Alexandra Byrne, Eka Vogelnik, Gilda Texter, Jesse J. Clarkson, Enrico Sabbatini, Marcel Vertès, John Truscott, Alina Panova, Kent Warner, Emi Wada, Xymena Zaniewska-Chwedczuk, Marik Vos-Lundh, Mary Zophres, Max Rée, Ramse Mostoller, Anthony Ward, Gile Steele, Karol Zachar, Dora Ng, Arlington Valles, Hazel Webb-Crozier, Theadora Van Runkle, Terry English, Herschel McCoy, Constanza Romero, Tail Man, Franca Squarciapino, John Moore, Piero Tosi, Manzura Uldjabaeva, Mary Wills, Yee Chung-Man, Renu Desai, Sanzo Wada, Francesca Chamberland, Moidele Bickel, Mary E. McLeod, Charles Knode. Excerpt: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zaitsev (Russian: ), more commonly known as Slava Zaitsev (Russian: ), born 2 March 1938 in Ivanovo, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, is a Russian fashion designer, painter, graphic artist and theatrical costume designer. Zaitsev was born on 2 March 1938 in Ivanovo to Mikhail Yakovlevich Zaitsev and Maria Ivanovna Zaitseva. His father was a victim of the repressions of Joseph Stalin and was incarcerated in one of Stalin's camps, and his mother was a cleaner and laundress. From 1945 - 1952 he studied Secondary School ¿ 22 in Ivanovo. As his father was deemed by the State to be an Enemy of the people, Zaitsev was denied the opportunity to study at an industrial academy, a theatrical school and a pilot training school. In 1952 he began studies in the Faculty of Applied Arts at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Ivanovo, and during this time he became interested in manufacturing and received the credentials to become a textile artist. He graduated, with honours, from the university in 1956. After realising that working with textiles was his dream, he moved to Moscow in 1956, and commenced studies at the Moscow Textile Institute, from which he graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor's degree in painting and designing. Whilst he was studying at the Institute, he married Marina Vladimirovna Zaitseva in 1959, and fathered a son, Yegor Vyacheslavovich Zaitsev, in 1960. Slava Zaitsev circa 1960s.During the Soviet era, haute couture was dominated by Zaitsev and Valentin Yudashkin, and he was compared to other world-renowned fashion designers such as Christian Lacroix, Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, and Yves Saint Laurent, Zaitsev was seen as being to compete with Western designers, however, under the communist regime, the only country outside of the USSR where Zaitsev was able to work was Czechoslovakia. Alexandre Vassiliev, a Russian-born, Paris-based fashion historian and designer, stated that "(i)f he had had a chance to show his co