Jenny Packham at Russian Fashion Week October 2006

Jenny Packham showed at Russian Fashion Week in October 2006, in the designer showcase linked above. The record holds nine runway photographs of the show — with Frankie Morello's and Fresh Art's, one of the fullest photograph sets among the October 2006 records in this part of the guide.

The British designer was one of the October edition's international guest names, as she had been in the March 2006 season earlier that year; her March record is in this guide. Her October record closes this part of the guide's season: after her name, the October 2006 showcase in this guide is complete.

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

A Guest Name Across Both 2006 Seasons

Packham's two 2006 records show the guest side of the Russian Fashion Week system at its clearest: an established British label travelling to Moscow twice in one year, presenting a collection in the March season and returning for the October edition, each appearance documented by its own set of runway photographs. For the event, guests of her standing raised the bill's international weight. For the visiting label, each Moscow appearance put a collection in front of a new market's press and buyers in a single show.

Her nine October photographs are the record of the second of those visits, filed in the same archive format as every home designer's record of the season. With them, this guide's Russian Fashion Week 2006 year — the 2005 showcase, the March 2006 season and the October 2006 season — stands complete.

Her page also closes a longer thread. Packham's name appears in this guide first among the March 2006 guests, in the company of Armand Basi, Isabel de Pedro, Julien Macdonald and Zandra Rhodes; her return in October, as the closing record of this part of the guide, completes the 2006 story those guest billings began — the home industry presenting itself, with the world's labels visiting it, twice in one year.

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