Russian designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev, better known as Slava Zaitsev, has died at the age of 85, spokesmen for his Moscow fashion house have confirmed. At the beginning of March, says Kira Bourenina, one of these spokeswomen, when the couturier "gathered his friends for his birthday, last March, we could already see that he was very, very weak."
The Russian public channel Pervy Kanal, has stressed that Slava Zaitsev, born in Ivanovo (Russia) on March 2, 1938 "dictated Soviet and Russian fashion for decades, and was an innovator who was not afraid of daring experiments."
The couturier, who created more than a thousand models throughout his career, became known in the world with his dresses using the colorful prints of the traditional shawls of his country. I can dress up a whole parade in Red Square in my clothes...," Slava Zaitsev said in a 2017 interview with AFP.
His work was not only recognized in his country. In 1963, the French weekly 'Paris Match', compared him to a Soviet Christian Dior, which earned him the nickname of the 'red Dior'.
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