hello everyone, i’m lyudmila tarakanova, i’ve been living in belarus for more than 30 years and i’m a belarusian fashion designer. i came from russia. from the ancient city

of ryazan, i love russia because it gave birth to me, because i received my education there and because it pulls me there, to visit my native land and nourish myself with my roots. i came to belarus on assignment to work. i was attracted by the cleanliness of the streets, the consistency of the rhythms, i was attracted. people, architecture, the atmosphere here is different, you see, here there is an opportunity to create, it’s only a fool who doesn’t work here, because everything is provided to people, please, if you want, bake, if you want to sew fields, if you want to recycle metal, so i am creating clothes, and it makes me so happy, i am happy that people take advantage of my beauty.

didn’t say it, but forgive me for that then, but you know what is most important is the peacefulness of people, they are so kind, they are so sweet, they are so affectionate, they are so caring, this sincerity, it is of course very important in communication, because when you come to russia, in the same ryazan people aggressive, but here in belarus i don’t see this, and i can say that this just

depends on the fact that the people here survived the great patriotic war, and the merits of the victories, which i bow to all the fallen, all the people who defended these lands, therefore i often go here to the monument of three bayonets on victory square, and we bow our heads to everyone, to the entire belarusian people and to their merits. i never felt like a stranger here, sometimes it even seemed to me that... but you know how clearly and clearly i am fulfilling my task: to educate young people, to prepare them for life and to provide in my experience and in my skills the opportunity for this transfer of knowledge, this ability to create, to create, to be creative.

we are at vitebsk state technological university, i am an associate professor of the department of design and fashion and represent the faculty of design. we prepare and train students in the specifics of light industry in the field of garment design with designer qualifications. so, you and i are on an assignment on the subject, uh, work in the material, these are fourth-year students, including we have a representative from china, we are very friendly with her. she has already completed this task, she

completed it before everyone else, here is her task, this is a picture of a mood, a big board. that is, we choose specifically for the image, which is supposed to be worn out and give the situation of the environment, that is, what kind of outer fur product is in the environment of the winter atmosphere, in the same way we can demonstrate it, for example, in the cool autumn, in contrast to the supposed shoes, which one works - with this group products. each has one topic, respectively, each of them does something, so they create a picture, i look at it, whether it matches the style or not , accordingly we remove something, i always wanted to be an artist,

always, i got here from moscow, graduating from the moscow textile institute. in 1989, i’m embarrassed by my years, but i’m young at heart, i work with students, i’m full of energy, everything is boiling, seething, at first i lived in a shared dormitory, and then they transferred me for my merits, took me to international, and there were already foreigners from others there, they were offered to us in our course, the fourth at that time, my first collection was created during this period, the collection was called. names, i remember it very well, because where would russia be without peter, my collection was among the best that were shown by the press and news agency in 1988, i remember it now, it was the end of november, it was

the very, very first collection, this was our very first group, with which the design of student collections, we were selected from all the presented collections by only three goat doctors, whose collections were published in fragments in the then popular student meridian. galina vasilievna kazarnovskaya came as a merchant, this is our professor of our department, she is also a candidate of technical sciences, the author of renewed technology, the production of judicial belts, galina vaselno comes to moscow. this is how she later told me and from the total number of our students she chooses from me, why he chose me, i don’t know, maybe because i already had my first art education, i didn’t know where i was going, i didn’t know at all, that is, i agreed to the distribution, i come here with

a transfer to orsha, it was even impossible to get to vitebsk, there was only one the only train, and imagine, i have two suitcases, eight boxes. with books too heavy to lift, because i couldn’t leave the art books, then i arrive in a foreign country at the station and meet my future husband, red-haired, big, tall, handsome scandinavian, red-haired, all in jeans thin, as i later learned that the aircraft technician, and also the bass guitarist, when they extended their hands to me, were beautiful. and so i stayed, i thought, just think, i’ve been working for 2 years somewhere, in some belarus, and i’ll come back, i came to the department,

everyone helped me, everyone suggested to me, everyone guided me, we had such wonderful masters, i came to the first lecture and i think i’ll be a teacher, i’ll grow up. i snuggled into the soldier's ankle boots, in green ones, so i took my favorite yugoslav red sweater, with this one with burgundy green dew big, these glasses, many students, who were my first graduates, remember this moment, everything went through fire and water, copper pipes. i can talk about copper pipes that there have already been creative collections since 1996, when i first took part in the white amphora competition, my first collection was humorous, generally

a needle and a pin, i took a french pair for the images, that is, a boy i had a small child, and the girl was big, tall, the most interesting thing is that i was sent from the department for advanced training, art products in ursha, and having studied the assortment of the factory, i came to the conclusion that there are very forgotten cool weaved homespun fabrics, and i took... it was these belarusian handmade fabrics, imagine, homespun on hand looms, and made costumes from them, i never went to a competition so that i could be the first, never, i wanted to participate, participate, participate, when i was awarded in 2006, i was shocked, it was a collection... i decided for myself,

as if with elements of a men's suit, glad you know what happened, when a friend told me, she worked at a technical school of light industry, she said, cockroach, what will you do, that our students came running to the library, no one read, evgenia. i won’t throw it and there was just a stir, they chipped in to read, imagine, this is my victory, how lukashenko treats corrupt officials as president, we all know this very well, if you’re a thief, then you’ll go to jail. no matter how pro-government fuck you are. is lukashenko demanding? yes, to everyone, but

he is especially demanding of those who are nearby, our the main enemy is carelessness, fraud and corruption. the homeland, in my understanding, is, of course, my country and my cities, but first of all, the homeland is the people. every third person on the territory of belarus died from the war. and when now someone suddenly doesn’t understand what belarus and specifically its leader lukashenko are doing, when we conduct maneuvers, then combat coordination, then we call the wagnerites to you for... acceptance of experience, then we return nuclear weapons, the enemies present this as aggression that they are maneuvering there at home, but everything they want for his homeland, alexander grigorievich, this is so that the same thing does not happen again, every third, a stable situation that is controlled, well, but nevertheless you cannot relax, that’s all that lukashenko does, protects his homeland, as its leader should protect, author’s igor turai's project propaganda, watch on the belarus24 tv channel.

at this point i would like to present and discuss the collection that we will have for the purpose. demonstrations during the defense of a diploma, all our graduates perform five models, this is the minimum number of units, which must be completed for the thesis project, during the thesis project, each author chooses a certain mood for himself, which is demonstrated through the different structure of fabrics, selection of materials, i really liked it, you really pleased me today, because firstly... the redistribution, she had a lot of mistakes, she redid this model in particular, we complicated it, and

let me just see now how it was done, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, everything was just as it was drawn, as it was in the sketch done, everything is great, very beautiful, trendy transparency, i really like the socks, i really like it, great solution, wonderful, generally just wonderful, wonderful. the course of the designer's idea that the glove immediately turns into a product, i once also had a sketch like this, do you remember, you were inspired by my story, i told you that when i was a student, i made such a sketch for a wedding theme, i have the product immediately went into the glove, and the managers told me, oh, now it’s really touching, thank you, they scolded me and said, how can you hold on? pasco, how can you hold a glass, and now my idea has come true after so many years, 35 years

have passed since my idea, when working with students , mutual understanding is very important for me, that is, when i see that the younger generation and i are on the wave... when i don’t have an age limit, that is, i try to explain to them as if they were already experts. then when i understand by my eyes and understand by my actions, even by the same elementary phrases, that i’m holding a needle for the first time in my hands, i say: it’s okay, we will achieve more if you have this desire , if you don’t have this desire, then i try not to come up and waste time on this, in

ninety-nine i went to moscow. with my student and we presented the student collection and my creative collection as a teacher, at this competition i was noted by the jury members and awarded first place among teachers, presented with a large book of 20th century fashion designers, which was handed to me by vyacheslav mikhailovich zaitsev. in ninety-nine, having received this book, i there was enthusiasm, you know, i got this impulse, and then they offered me. luda, who else but you will make a collection for men, i say, what are you doing, what are you talking about, it’s so difficult, i won’t take it, he says, yes, great, he says, you’ll go to the factory, the novogrudok garment factory, i say , where it tells me, the grondel region, i say, you haven’t been there, i say, no, you’ll go,

you’ll see belarus like this, in the ninety-seventh year a dedicated one walked to mark, then, for example, there was a rain of rays dedicated to hagen and shadows, there was women's clothing, then romilya markovna, gurchenko, dedicated. my dad is dying, and i dedicated the dol collection to him, i remember, i love lyud, he has always been an example for me, so i always try to dedicate my collection to men. any collection, it is significant in life, despite the fact that you are achieving something yourself, then you are also the face of the belarusian state, because the republic stands behind you, if you travel abroad, i feel the strength behind me, i i feel behind me that agility that pressure that just comes out of me

it’s great, the opportunity to create, and the great support of my family. she is probably, most likely, even their victory, because they can be proud that they have such a wife, such a mother, such a daughter. so, you and i are in my creative workshop, it belongs to the union of designers, i rent it, here i give away my masterpieces, so to speak, to evaluate my creativity. in this case, i have a business card that will be presented at the republican song festival dubrovna, with the presenter in the image of a nightingale, should just be presented to the public, we will demonstrate, look and

determine the balance, this is our bottom layer, as you can see, everything is calculated, everything is scrupulously verified, on top we will have an enemy, who will be the next stage of my work, i really like the thoroughness of processing, i pay a lot of attention to this, because that i can even, if possible, demonstrate to you just such a frag, which i have presented here so that you can understand thoroughly. my work, how well everything is carefully selected according to the drawing, that you won’t even see where our seams are combined, you see, that is, i specially selected the pattern so that each repeat pattern of this coupon was connected in harmony and

so that there were no visual boundaries, i learned my accuracy and this precision. .. with my favorite design teacher at the university at the moscow textile institute, we had assignments to make a mannequin, i set up a sleeve and the sweater came up to me and said: well, here we are , we’ll remove 0.2 mm here, here we’ll remove 0.3 mm, i speak: ekaterin sunny, can i not redo this? she says: no, you can’t, linty, linty, 0.2 here, 0.3 here, it will be absolutely. model, these are exactly the phrases i give to new students every year when they begin their studies in the discipline of design. i tell my students that i really love working with men’s collections, i really love them, because it seems to me that women’s collections are much easier to show and create.