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Hello, you're listening to The Witness Podcast on the BBC World Service with me,

Gina Newman. Today we're going back to Moscow in the 1980s when one designer

transformed the Soviet fashion industry and grabbed international headlines with his shows.

What is the point of a fashion designer? It's to give people joy, the joy of connecting with beauty, you see.

This has been the most important thing in my life.

Slava Zeitsef started working in the Soviet clothing industry back in 1962.

From the start he was full of creative ideas, but high fashion wasn't really an option in the communist economy with its emphasis on mass production.

Soviet fashion shows featured simple designs from the cheapest fabrics, like this one, the 1960 Spring Collection from Moscow Fashion House.

Models of the Moscow Fashion House are the first to open the spring season as usual.

Most designs are made out of cheap fabrics, cotton, poplin and canvas.

The Soviet textile industry was geared only for mass production.

Fabric runs changed once every three years.

To get a design from a drawing to factory production took two years.

But Slava Zeissov was impatient.

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