Valentin Yudashkin, the primary Russian to be admitted to the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in 1996 before being excluded in 2022 for failing to sentence his country’s attack on Ukraine, died in Moscow on Tuesday at age 59.
His death was announced by Russian news agency Tass and confirmed by an organization spokesperson.
The reason behind death was given as cancer, a condition he had been battling since 2016, in response to news reports. He's survived by his wife and a daughter.
Together with Vyacheslav “Slava” Zaitsev, who is taken into account his mentor and who died on Sunday, Yudashkin is seen as one among the best-known Russian designers of the late Soviet and post-Soviet eras. French Russsian fashion historian Alexandre...
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