Alla Polozenko at the Russian Fashion Festival
Alla Polozenko at the Russian Fashion Festival
The IED Fashion Design student will present “Anomalia”, her first collection of women’s wear, at the Festival’s sixth edition
From 13 to 15 November, Milan hosted the Russian Fashion Festival, which has now reached its sixth edition, an opportunity for fashion designers from Russia and other countries from what used to be the USSR to meet with the Italian fashion system, organised by Società Italia, a company working in the area of commercial relations between Italy and Russia with a focus on the fashion sector.
15 participants have been chosen, all young designers from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia. Among them Alla Polozenko, a student of Fashion Design at the IED Milan.
Alla was born in the Ukraine in 1977, where she studied visual arts before moving to Serbia to work as an interior decorator. After a few years, she then moved on to Italy to further her painting research, producing an extensive array of abstract paintings inspired by Salvador Dalí’s surrealism. It was in Milan that she came into contact with fashion, enrolling in the three-year course in Fashion Design at the Milan IED in 2010. In 2012, she took part in the Italian final of the Triumph Inspiration Award, coming in first with her collection entitled “Dragon & Butterfly Infinity”.
At the Russian Fashion Festival, Alla is presenting “Anomalia”, a collection of women’s wear inspired by Modernist architecture and contemporary art that starts from a search for a new model of femininity to trace an alien, androgynous figure, whose elegance protects a certain mysterious fragility.
Anomalia is the name of an alien coming from “elsewhere”, a fragile and sensitive being that is able to perceive the smallest emotions and to feel the feeblest sensations. Her descent on Earth is accidental and strange. She arrives in a desolate corner of the Earth, wearing her uniform-dress that is silver and black as the world she comes from. The meeting with the humans, so different from her, does not surprise but confuses her. Despite this, she’s still convinced to search into her deep, so she puts on her dress made of pipes, which is able to catch the smallest movement of the magnetic waves produced by human minds together with their hidden desires, their animal instincts and emotions. Lots of eoni have passed before she could become a being with more mind than body. And here she is now, between her progenitors caught in a so primary state. Among the different possibilities, she decides to test the world of fashion because she thinks that the highest ideas of beauty and at the same time the most violent and primitives instincts lie there. It’s in that muffled world, which is often translated into ideal images, that the most violent thoughts, the hardest sensations, and the most aggressive passions burn and consume
Making the eleven outfits in this collection stand out from the crowd are their unconventional materials, such as plastic, netting, plastic tubes, silk and lurex jacquard, duchesse, technical fabrics and double organza plastic-coated with lurex and cloquet, together with plenty of handmade craftsmanship and the frequent use they make of symmetric shapes and of the colours black, white, beige, silver and grey.
