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Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow Launches at Gostiny Dvor
Volvo Fashion Week opens in Moscow’s Gostiny Drov center with the fashion presentation by the Russian acclaimed designer Valentin Yudashkin. This week Gostiny Dvor will host over thirty Russian and CIS designers showcasing their collections on two runways built inside the complex. Between shows guests and industry professionals can browse sponsor booths and socialize with a glass of champagne and to live DJ’s spinning inside this transformed space.
KARIM RASHID BRINGS RAINBOW TO DREARY MOSCOW
Karim Rashid’s digital pop art retrospective “KARIMODWORKS” opens in Moscow.
Russia’s first exhibition of the renowned industrial designer and architect Karim Rashid is held in Moscow’s newly opened MOD Design center. The designer’s central theme is furniture, but 15 year career retrospective showcases over 200 multimedia creations ranging from lighting and packaging design to interior and architectural concepts.
Born in 1960 in Cairo and educated in Canada and Italy, Rashid is considered one of the most successful and stylish modern industrial designers. He has been involved in over three thousand projects throughout his career and collaborated with companies such as Kenzo, Umbra, Method and Sony. Rashid has received more than 200 various prizes including the Hall of Fame of the Interior Design magazine, and his work often referred to as “digital pop”, is featured in the world’s most recognized museums of modern art.
Karim Rashid believes that today’s poetic design is based on a plethora of complex criteria: from social behaviors, global, economic and political issues to production ease, distribution, quality, ecological and sustainability issues. The combination of these multiple factors shape our objects, forms, our physical space and visual culture and our overall contemporary human experience.
Through his work Rashid’s intention is to create an entirely different world - one that is full of real contemporary inspiring objects, spaces, places, worlds, spirits and experiences.
“Design has been the cultural shaper of our world from the start. We have designed systems, cities, and commodities. We have addressed the world’s problems. Now design is not about solving problems, but about a rigorous beautification of our built environments. Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally,” notes the designer.
Karim Rashid’s Retrospective is open now until May 31.
MOD Design Center, Maly Konyushkovsky Per, 2
Moscow, Russia
March
