Designer Elena Zolotova was a professional dancer. This was reflected in her new collection, presented at Moscow Fashion Weeks 2013/2014.
The fifth day of Fashion Week fashion shows at Moscow Gostiny Dvor on March 31 opened a brand defile Zolota. What Zolota? it scarves and scarves from the finest wool, which is created according to the original Latvian craft traditions.
Rizhanka Elena Zolotareva - "part-time" teacher of ballet dances. In the 90s she was the soloist of the ballet Alla Duhova "Todes". Now designer Elena Zolotareva presents a collection of handmade shawls and shawls Zolota.
All products are produced in a small factory, which is located in the forest, next to a river near a small village. Shawls and scarves are made only according to old technology. It has been known since the time of the ancient Livs who inhabited the territory of Latvia. The shawls and shawls presented in the collection are a mixture of linen with wool and linen with viscose. The manufacture of each product is the painstaking manual labor of several specialists. First, linen is woven on old wooden looms, woolen or viscose thread is woven into it. Then it undergoes heat treatment at high temperature and is dried in fresh forest air.Next is the process of painting with natural dyes, after which the product is rinsed in a river and dried again.
Part of the collection is linen shawls with gold prints, which also manual way applied by a textile artist. Even the tag on each product is made to order and embroidered on silk. The production of each shawl or scarf takes up to ten days. Products Zolota exclusive, there is not a single repeating model.
Photo: BOYKO.
Material prepared by Elena Karpova
