Olga Samoschenko at Russian Fashion Week 2005

Olga Samoschenko showed at Russian Fashion Week 2005, in the designer showcase linked above. Her record is a photograph record: three runway photographs of the 2005 collection, kept in the selection in which they were published. Her 2005 runway image was also chosen to stand for the showcase itself, heading the designer list of that season in this guide.

The 2005 showcase mixed Moscow fashion houses with independent designers and regional names, and Samoschenko's record belongs to the independent side of that bill — a single designer's collection presented on the national stage, in the same programme as the Zaitsev house and the visiting Ukrainian label NB&Karavay.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not photographs from this show.

The 2005 Season and the March 2006 Return

Samoschenko is one of the designers who carried from the 2005 showcase into the March 2006 season: her name stands on the March 2006 designer list, and that record is linked from the March 2006 showcase built in this guide. Taken together, the two records follow one designer across consecutive Russian Fashion Week seasons, which is the quiet value of a showcase archive — individual names can be traced through it season by season, collection by collection, rather than appearing once and vanishing.

That a Samoschenko runway image was chosen to head the 2005 showcase says something about how the season presented itself: of all the collections shown, hers supplied the picture the guide reached for first. Editorial choices of that kind are part of a fashion week's record too — they show what the season thought its own best face was. Her page keeps the full set of three photographs together, so the chosen image can be seen in the company of the other two views from the same show, in the selection in which they were published.

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