Asya Kogel at Russian Fashion Week March 2006

Asya Kogel showed at Russian Fashion Week in March 2006, in the designer showcase linked above. The record holds two runway photographs of the show, pictured by Maria Valentino, Firstview, and provided by Russian Fashion Week.

Kogel's record stands early in the March 2006 list, in the run of home designers who opened the showcase — Gapchuk, Kiaby, Arsenicum by Enton and the Chistova & Endourova collections around her. It is that home contingent, more than the visiting guest names, that a national fashion week exists to document, and these photograph records are its documentation.

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

Two Photographs of the March 2006 Show

A two-photograph record fixes a collection in a pair of looks, and the discipline of the format is part of its value: the two views Russian Fashion Week chose to publish are the two that stand for the show in the archive. Read across the neighbouring pages, the pairs accumulate into the season's portrait — designer by designer, collection by collection, all photographed by the same Firstview photographer in the same venue weeks.

Records like Kogel's are where a showcase archive proves its even-handedness. The famous names of March 2006 — the Zaitsev house, the Saint Martins graduate, the British guests — would be easy to document richly and the quieter home designers thinly, and the archive would quietly distort the season in the process. Instead, every home show in this part of the guide carries the same apparatus: its published photographs, its credit line, its place in the list. Kogel's pair of photographs stands at exactly the standard the season's biggest names receive.

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