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The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary
Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to create high fashion collections in the Soviet Union. He tells Dina Newman about the challenges he faced working under communism.
Photo: a sketch of a dress designed by Slava Zaitsev; credit: courtesy of Slava Zaitsev.
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