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Slava Zaitsev

Slava Zaitsev (1938 - 2023) was active/lived in Russian Federation.  Slava Zaitsev is known for Fashion design, painting, graphic art, costume design.

"Slava Zaitsev, Enduring Soviet-Era Fashion Designer, Dies at 85," Obituary, The New York Times, by Penelope Green, May 13, 2023

He gave color, sparkle and opulence to a generation raised in drab Soviet gray and designed for pop stars, Olympic athletes, politicians and ballerinas.

Slava Zaitsev, an effervescent and enduring Soviet-era fashion designer, once called the “Red Dior” by the Western press, whose over-the-top theatrical creations and persona made him a go-to couturier at home, died on April 30 in Shchyolkovo, Russia. He was 85.

His longtime friend Tatiana Sorokko, a Russian-born model and journalist, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by internal bleeding that resulted from an ulcer.

Mr. Zaitsev died just two days before Valentin Yudashkin, a pupil of his who was also known for his sumptuous creations, and who found greater success in the West than he did, died of cancer at 59.

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