Elena Makashova at Russian Fashion Week October 2006

Elena Makashova showed at Russian Fashion Week in October 2006, in the designer showcase linked above. The record holds five runway photographs of the show. Makashova also showed in the 2005 season and in March 2006, where she was billed as Lena Makashova; those records are in this guide.

Her two 2006 records make her one of the designers who can be followed across both of Russian Fashion Week's Moscow seasons in this guide — a spring presentation under a shortened name and an autumn one under her full name, each documented by its own set of runway photographs.

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

March and October: Makashova's Two 2006 Seasons

Billing variations of this kind are a small trap for an archive: the same designer under two forms of her name in one year, in the same guide. The March record keeps the billing the March season used — Lena Makashova — and this October record keeps the October season's full form, Elena Makashova, so that anyone citing either season from here cites it as it was. The designer list linked above keeps both billings distinct and in their own seasons.

The October record's five photographs are kept in the selection in which they were published. Together with the March record, they follow one designer through the fashion year's full cycle in Moscow: the same stage, the same audience, and a new collection for the autumn season.

Her page also keeps the October set together as a set, so a designer first met in this guide as a 2005 name, then as Lena in March, can be followed into her autumn collection in the same format. Editorial choices of that kind — which form of a name heads a record — are part of a fashion week's record too, and the three records together let a reader see both the billings the seasons used and the continuous body of work that ran beneath them.

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