Fyodor Golan Riga Fashion Week S/S 2012

Inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s poems, Fyodor Golan S/S 2012 collection, entitled ‘Flowers of Evil’, is a dark tale about transformation and renaissance, showcasing a beautiful nymph struggling to find her identity and finally merging with nature, becoming an all one.

Fyodor Podgorny and Golan Frydman are the designers under the joint label of Fyodor Golan, coming from very different ethnic backgrounds and using their diversity to enrich their vision of life and style: often defining themselves as ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide’, the duo seems to have a decadent romantic dna that can be appreciated at its most on the catwalk.

It is not just a dress, every outfit embodies a metamorphosis, the result of a fusion between a wood goddess and a not pruned nature embroidered on laser-cut dresses and pleated organza shapes. 

‘Be beautiful! And be sad!’, wrote Baudelaire: there is no clue of serenity and softness in this garden, far away from the English tea party atmosphere that blossoms reminds us. More than a floral leitmotif,  it’s the love story between a woman and her gothic nature.