In autumn Moscow traditionally took a fashionable relay race - from October 21 to October 25, 2015, the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia Fashion Week of Spring-Summer 2016 was held. More than 70 designers from Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey, China and other countries.
Alena Akhmadullina, VIVA VOX, Tony Ward Couture, Yasya Minochkina (Ukraine), Julia Nikolaeva, Laroom, PIROSMANI BY JENYA MALYGINA, IGOR GULYAEV, MASTERPEACE, Julia Dalakian, Yez by Yegor Zaitsev, Goga Nikabadze (Georgia), DIMANEU - these and many other successful designers, whose collections were presented in the framework of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, have long been known to fashionable public in Russia and abroad. One of the key elements of the foreign program was the premiere of the collection of evening dresses of the brand Tarik Ediz (Turkey). Their work was demonstrated by talented debutants, whose endeavors are supported by the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Russia: TAKO MEKVABIDZE (Georgia), IVANONA, Eka Balanchivadze (Georgia), ARAIDA and many others. Young designers Vika Smolyanitskaya, Outlaw Moscow and Ksenia Knyazeva, who presented their collections in the presentation format last season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, debuted on the podium this fall. Premier collections were shown by beginning designers in the framework of numerous group shows, competitions and presentations of capsule collections in showrooms
Every year, as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, foreign designers present their collections. This season, as part of the foreign program Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, a collective display of leading Chinese designers took place. The participants of the largest Fashion Week of Southeast Asia - Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week showed the premier spring-summer 2016 collections on the podium and in the show room. The presentation of Chinese designers at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Russia was held within the framework of cooperation of the largest Fashion Week in Russia and China. The three-year agreement on strategic partnership between the Russian Fashion Council and the China Fashion Association was signed in 2014. The first event aimed at promoting domestic fashion in the largest foreign market was the participation of Russian manufacturers in the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week and the exhibition of DHUB in October 2014 in Beijing.