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Alexander Shumsky

Alexander Shumsky is President of Russian Fashion Council and co-founder of Fashion Fund from Russia. Alexander Shumsky has been producing seasonal shows since 2000. In 2000 he also founded Russian Fashion Week in Moscow, one of the largest fashion weeks in the world and the largest one in Russia and Eastern Europe, since that time it is held twice a year, in March and October. In 2014, Russian Fashion Council was founded. Russian Fashion Council is the founding and a structure-forming organization in the fashion industry in Russia, uniting all Russian designers and representing their common interests at the federal and local level. President of Russian Fashion Council Alexander Shumsky co-founded the Fashion Fund that runs educational and supporting programs for emerging designers. Russian Fashion Council is organizing key fashion projects in Russia, including Global Talents initiative that is designed to support emerging brands and artists from all over the world. In 2020, the project has transformed to the new digital format Global Talents Digital that is blurring the lines between actual fashion and virtual world, using the advantages of both. Global Talents Digital is an off-season international project that combines new cutting-edge fashion collections, digital art and virtual influencers in one event. Some real collections are presented at the event by virtual models. Some virtual influencers present their own digital fashion capsules along with real designers. Global Talents Digital features AR and ‘see now, buy now’ options, making the streaming event quite interactive. 157 participants from 43 countries and areas took part in the projects through all the editions. Russian Fashion Council has also created a platform for young designers and artists called Futurum Moscow. Alexander Shumsky also launched Fashion Futurum – a series of events, dedicated to the future of fashion. Fashion Futurum started with the International Futurum Forum in Moscow, attended by a large number of leading fashion executives from Neiman Marcus, Google, CNMI, etc. It was followed by Fashion Tech Start-Up Show, Fashion Futurum accelerator for fashion brands and Futurum Education – events organized to strengthen Russian as well as the international fashion system. On April 4-5, 2020 Russian Fashion Council has held the fully digital edition of Russian Fashion Week in Moscow. The key Fashion Week in Eastern Europe was canceled due to COVID-19 for the first time ever since 2000, when it started. Live-streamed from Moscow, the digital Fashion Week has reached over 830 000 unique cross-platform viewers in 2 days. Russian Fashion Council also produces POP-UP SHOP. In May 2020, Russian fashion Council in collaboration with Russian Union of Buyers has launched Pop-Up Zoom – a digital pop-up showroom which connects Russian brands and fashion stores.

Daria Shapovalova

Called ‘Kiev Fashion’s Queen Bee’ by Vogue UK, Daria Shapovalova is the former creative director of Kiev Fashion Days, the founder of More Dash and DressX. After earning her degrees in PR and marketing, aged 19, she launched her own television show, Fashion Week with Daria Shapovalova, on Ukrainian TV. From there, she began contributing to the Ukrainian editions of Elle and Harper’s Bazaar, plus Vogue Russia. Her venture into multimedia journalism also spanned to her role as a video director at the French fashion website, Nowfashion, her Russian-language fashion website, Fw-Dailly and her eponymous fashion blog. Taking the PR world by storm, Shapolova eventually launched her own agency, More Dash in 2014, building recognition for Eastern European brands in new markets. Among them were brands such as Mariana Senchina and Anna October, now stacked at Matches Fashion, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges. She was also a regular contributor for Style.com. As ex-organiser and creative director of the Mercedez-Benz Kiev Fashion Days, Shapovalova’s main goal was to elevate Ukrainian fashion and mark Kiev as a major fashion capital in Eastern Europe. As the largest fashion event in Ukraine, it has attracted representatives of the likes of Forbes, W Magazine, The Huffington Post and the CR Fashion book. In 2016, Shapovalova crossed her fashion career into the technology industry, holding the very first fashion-technology forum. There Shapovalova spearheaded discussions focused on the bridging fashion with technology. She also veered into the fashion education sphere in founding the Kyiv Fashion Institute, a private school with a reputation as one of Ukraine’s top fashion centres. As the next move in her career, Daria founded DressX, the first international multibrand retailer for digital clothes. Daria currently resides in Los Angeles, where she builds her company with an ambition to re-imagine the future of fashion.

Gloria Wavamunno

Gloria Wavamunno is the art director and founder of Kampala Fashion Week, established in 2014. She is the art director of her namesake non-binary label that was founded in 2009 and is constructed by cultures, sounds and the unexplainable. Gloria Wavamunno is also a founding board member of the Fashion Council Uganda.

Jackie Andrews-Udall

Jackie Andrews-Udall is an experienced freelance consultant who has worked for many Luxury brands, textile mills, academic institutions and governmental organisations. A qualified textile designer and engineer, she was one of the first to complete the postgraduate course “Fashion and the Environment” at the ENSAA Duperre, in Paris. She then trained with Karl Lagerfeld, where she worked as a textile designer and license manager, observing and learning the dynamics of the Luxury industry from one of our most iconic designers. She founded her own textile studio specialising in colour, “Metissages”, working for the likes of Peclers, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Nobilis Fontan, Disney until she moved to London to live with her partner. Basing her personal practise as “The Textile Library” at Cockpit Arts, she worked for international clients such as Itochu Fashion System in Japan, Peclers Paris where she designed colour books, Solbiati in Italy designing the linen and cashmere ranges, Rena Lange, Gruppo Maska in Italy and finally Lanvin in Paris where she was employed as Head of Fabrics working closely with Alber Elbaz. “The Textile Library” allowed her to explore fabrics made by hand, such as Indian cotton Khadi, using block printing and techniques like rust printing, lacquer and plaster printing; she fell in love with indigo and the depth of lustre it could reach; these more experimental pieces were sold to Aquascutum, Lanvin and Comme des Garçons. She then became Head of Textiles and Procurement for Stella McCartney, part of Gucci group at the time, founding a sustainable sourcing pool for the group to buy organic fabrics “en masse” and dye and finish them to organic standards. The first sustainable capsule was bought by Barneys New York, using recycled polyesters, upcycled stock needle-punched together, upcycled embroidery from deadstock, and khadi cotton. From then on sustainability has become synonymous with the Stella McCartney brand and Mr. Bizzarri has carried sustainable ethics across to Gucci today. Jackie left Luxury to work for Simone Cipriani at the United Nations, commissioned to found the strategy for his Ethical Fashion Initiative. It was a groundbreaking experience, brokering public-private partnerships to use fashion as a tool for social empowerment. Since 2009, she has built a network within sustainability for textiles and has enabled brands, institutions and mills to practise ethically and environmentally. As Sustainability Ambassador for Clerici Tessuto she has influenced many buying teams and for CMO Paris, she has curated recycled waste in Delhi into fabric for luxurious interiors. She has taught at Royal College of Art, the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and currently lectures at Central Saint Martins, promoting sustainable design practise. Attending many conferences, she has spoken at the United Nations JAG, in Geneva, at Premiere Class in Berlin, at London Fashion Week, Premiere Vision Paris, the Society of Dyers and Colourists in London and other events. She is happy to share her knowledge of textiles and spread eco-awareness, believing strongly in how interconnected we are and how we must use collaborative, collective creativity to save nature… now.

Kazuma Mori

In 2011 Kazuma Mori launched Uggla website, which is an online fashion store focused on Scandinavian unique fashion, and started to move to Berlin and travel around to find new and small dope brands. He opened a first pop-up called “Uggla Scandinavian Select” at Laforet Harajuku in September of 2013. Also from 2015 Kazuma Mori started to work with legendary Japanese designer Michiko Koshino as a stylist of the runway in London, and cast the show in Japan. From 2017 he started to focus on Russian fashion, did a pop-up with Russian brands only in Harajuku and opened BUNKER TOKYO on July of 2018. Kazuma Mori had been a speaker at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia and other events and now he continues to be engaged in many different projects.

Nina Senskaia

Nina Senskaia is a Helsinki-based fashion designer. She got her first Master Degree in Fashion Design at the State University of Industrial Technologies and Design in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. After graduation she had been working as a fashion designer for a popular Russian high-street brand for several years. In 2017 she entered Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) to study Sustainability in Fashion. During her master degree program at Aalto University she studied sustainability in fashion design and was focused on design methods which can help to reduce negative impacts of the fashion industry. Nina has an Instagram account about sustainable fashion. She is an author of numerous articles, lecturer at educational platforms, speaker at festivals which promote conscious living and mindful consumption.

Nyusha Nyusha

Nyusha is composer, songwriter, singer and actress from Russia. Nyusha’s songs were leading the music charts multiple times. Cartoon characters spoke in her voice and eminent music media called her “the most memorable highlight in recent years”

Nyusha Shurochkina

Nyusha is composer, songwriter, singer and actress from Russia. Nyusha’s songs were leading the music charts multiple times. Cartoon characters spoke in her voice and eminent music media called her “the most memorable highlight in recent years”. She grew up in a family of musicians, wrote her first song at the age of 8 (“Night”). From childhood she decided to devote her life to music. Nyusha’s first single “Voyu na lunu” (in English “Howl at the Moon”) was released in early 2009 and awarded the “Bog Efira” (in English “God of Air”) award in the Radio Hit nomination and was nominated for the Song of the Year. The debut album “Vybirat chudo” (in English “Choose a Miracle”) was released in 2010. The MTV EMA 2011 ceremony brought to Nyusha the title of Best Russian Artist and the Billboard Russia magazine included Nyusha in the top-20 of Major Music Highlights of the Year afterwards. The year ended with no less grandiose achievements: the title song from the “Vybirat chudo” album became the Main Song of the Year according to the Afisha magazine, and the “Bolno” composition (in English “It Hurts”) was named the most memorable pop hit over the past two decades. On April 22, 2014 Nyusha’s second solo album, “Obedineniye” (in English “Unity”) was released. In 2020 Nyusha released visualized album “Solaris Es”. All Nyusha’s work is multifaceted lyrics, modern sound and creativity filled with metaphors. In 2019 Nyusha announced that her brand “Nyusha Wear” is closing and recycling brand “NyuCycle” that better represents her beliefs as an eco-activist is opening. She is married and has a daughter.

Paola Pinna

Paola Pinna is a digital and 3D artist based in Cagliari, Italy. She studied at the program of Fine Art Digital in the University of the Arts London and after its graduation she started to live in Italy where she exhibits her art and works on commission globally. Paola Pinna is particularly interested in exploring the meaning of being a human today, her works focus on different aspects of the relationships between humans and machines, the Internet and its subcultures. They also show a fascination about new ways of conceiving life, spirituality and the aesthetics in the age of technological advancements.

Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy is the founder of Global Fashion Exchange and an expert in developing networks and activating ideas that power the creative teams for GFX in 90+ countries. Patrick was integrating sustainability programing at institutions like V&A in London, Federation Square in Melbourne, Madison Square Garden in New York City and more. He has an experience in producing events and creating marketing campaigns for some of the world’s most recognized brands across the art and fashion space, including H&M, Moët Hennessy, and Microsoft. For 15 years Patrick Duffy have produced hundreds of events in five continents.

Tania Nudelman

Tania Nudelman is the founder of Nothing New – Russia’s first media portal for the sustainable fashion, sharing economy and resale market (nichegonovogo.ru). Tania is also the founder of Departament PR communication agency (departament.com). From 2011 to 2015 she worked at BE OPEN Foundation as PR & Event director (beopenfuture.com). In 2002 Tania Nudelman founded event agency Event Factory. For several years she also worked as Business Development Manager at Vedomosti newspaper that was founded as a joint venture of The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal

Timo Helgert

Timo Helgert is a German artist, best known for his viral virtual installations. He started his online design projects at the age of 14. In 2015 Timo started to fully pursue his journey as an independent artist, while living abroad in Seoul, South Korea. His works take inspiration from classical escapism and draw elements from modern city life. He has worked with brands such as Apple, Balenciaga, Puma, and Zara through his agency "Vacades", which he founded in 2012. Timo is known for creating inspiring, escapist art with the use of new digital techniques, augmented reality, and 3D design. His aim is to create hope and peace in a busy world. Timo's works have been featured by Forbes, Elle Magazine, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, Facebook, and more.