just my sincere heartfelt gratitude to those who could not see today’s flights, but i would like this land , which personifies all those difficult years, huge sacrifices, to be in space, when you approach your territory, you experience such a kind of pleasure and the same feeling, as you approach the house, your heart leaves your chest and here you fly right into the zone...

hello everyone, i’m lyudmila tarakanova, i’ve lived in belarus for more than 30 years and i’m a belarusian fashion designer.

i came from russia, from an ancient city ryazan. i love her because she gave birth to me, that i received an education there and the fact that i am drawn there to visit my native land and feed myself on carnies. i came to belarus by assignment to work, i was attracted by the cleanliness of the streets, the consistency, the rhythms, i was attracted people, architecture, here...

the atmosphere 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 to bake, if you want to sew fields, if you want to recycle metal, that’s what i do i’m creating clothes, and it makes me so happy, i’m happy that people take advantage of my beauty, use my skill and appreciate it. i wouldn’t say that i needed to adapt, because the environment is, after all, a post-soviet space, so everything was the same here, i just got used to it here, because it was very interesting to me, the infrastructure is so calm, unobtrusive, with its own face . as for the people, i would call them, i like the word, belarusian pomyarkovnye, maybe i pronounced it wrong, but forgive me for that then. and 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 warmth, it is of course very important in communication, because when you come to russia, in the same ryazan , people are aggressive, but here in belarus, i don’t see this, and i can say that it just depends on what people here have experienced, and the merits of victories, which i bow to all who have fallen the people who defended these lands, so i often go here to the monument of three bayonets on victory square and bow our heads to everyone, to the entire belarusian people and to their merits. i never felt like i belonged here, it even seemed to me sometimes that i, you know how... clearly and clearly and clearly

fulfill my task: to educate young people, to prepare them for life and to provide them... in my experience and in my skills, the possibility of this transfer of knowledge, this ability to create, create, be creative. we are located in vitebsk state technological university, i am an associate professor at 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, we are on an assignment on the subject, work in the material, these are fourth-year students, including we have a representative from china, we are very friends with her, this is haldi, she has already completed this assignment, she completed it before anyone else, here is her task, this is a mood picture, a large modboard, that is, we choose. specifically for the image, which is supposed to be a robotic carrier, and we give the environmental situation , that is, what kind of outer fur product is in the environment of a winter atmosphere, in the same way we can demonstrate it, show it,

for example, in cool autumn, in contrast the supposed shoes, which work with given group of products, each has one theme, respectively... each of them does something, so they create a picture, i look at it, whether it matches the style or not , respectively, we do something clean up. i always wanted to be an artist, always, i came here from moscow, graduating from the moscow textile institute, in the year eighty-nine i am embarrassed by my years. but i’m young at heart, i work with students, i’m full of energy, everything is boiling, everything is seething, at first i lived in a shared dormitory, and then they transferred me for my merits, they took me to the international one, and there were already foreigners from other countries there, we were very lucky , because at that time in the eighty-

sixth year of perestroika, international communication interrelations appeared, which were offered to us in our course, the fourth in... my first collection was created during this period, the collection was called peter's times, i remember it very well, because where would russia be without peter, my collection was among the best , which were demonstrated by a news printing agency in 1988, i remember now, it was the end of november, it was the very, very first collection, it was our very, very... the first group with which the design of student collections, we were selected from all the collections presented by only three masterminds, whose collections were published in fragments in the then popular student meridian.

galina vasilyevna kazarnovskaya came as a merchant, this is our professor of our department, she is also a candidate of technical sciences, auto renewed technologies for the production of judicial belts, galina vasilina comes to moscow, this is how she later told me and from the total number of our students she chooses me, why she chose me, i don’t know, maybe from the fact that 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 urshi, even to vitepskaya... it was possible to get there, there was one single train, and imagine, i have two suitcases, eight boxes of books that are 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, a tall, red-haired, handsome scandinavian, blond red, all over thin jeans, as i later found out that he was... an aircraft technician, and at the same time a bass guitarist, when his hands reached out to me, there were beautiful fingers, and so i stayed, i thought, guess what? i’ll work for 2 years somewhere in some belarus and return. 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 thought, i’ll be a teacher, i’ll be more mature, and i snuggled into the soldier’s boots. uh in green, respectively, i took

my favorite yugoslav red sweater with this one with burgundy big green rose, these glasses, many students, who were my first graduates, remember this moment, everything has passed, i’m fire water, copper pipes, about copper pipes, i can talk about the fact that there have already been creative collections since... since ninety-six year, when i first took part in the white amphora competition, i had a humorous first collection, generally a needle and a pin, i took a french pair for the images, that is, my boy was small, and the girl was big, tall, the most interesting thing is, i was sent from departments for advanced training at the factory of artistic products in urshu, and having studied the assortment of the factory, i came to the conclusion that there are very forgotten cool woven homespun fabrics, and i took these

belarusian ones made by the hands of craftswomen, imagine, homespun on hand looms, fabrics and made costumes from them, i never went to a competition in order for me to be the first ever, i wanted participation, participation, participation, i was awarded in 2006, i was shocked, it was anegin’s collection again, because i am very i love pushkin’s works, i then decided on female images for myself, as if with elements of a men’s suit, you know what the joy was, when a friend told me, she worked at a technical school of light industry at... well, what will you do, what we have students ran to the library, no one was reading, evgenia nikina,

there was just a stir there, they chipped in to read, imagine, this is my victory, at the moment i would like to present and discuss the collection that we will have made for the purpose of display during the defense diploma all of our graduate students complete five models, this is the minimum number of units that must be completed for a diploma project. during the graduation project, each author chooses a certain mood for himself, which is demonstrated thanks to: different fabric structures, selection of materials, i really liked neali, and let me

just see now how it was done, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, everything was just as it was drawn, as it was done in the sketch, everything is great, very beautiful, relevant transparency, i really like the socks, i really like them, a great solution, wonderful, generally just wonderful, a wonderful move of design thought, that with... the glove immediately turns into a product, i once had this too, for me the product immediately turned into glove, and the leaders of me, oh, now it’s really touching, thank you, they scolded me, 35 years have passed since my idea, elementary phrases, that i ’m holding a needle in my hands for the first time, and i say, it’s okay, we’ll achieve more if you this desire will be there, if there is no desire, then i

i try and don’t waste time on this, in 1999 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 the teachers were handed a large book of 20th century craftsmen, which vyacheslav mikhailovich zaitsev helped me out. in ninety-nine, having received this book, i had enthusiasm, you know, i had this impulse, and then they offered me, anatoly vasilyevich, gurov, the prime minister was there, and he offered me, he says, 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 , so

you go to the factory, the novogrudok sewing factory, i say, where is it, he tells me, grondel region, i say, you haven’t been there, for example, that’s why i always try to include men in my collection. any collection, it is significant in life, despite the fact that you are achieving something yourself, you are also the face of the belarusian state, because the republic stands behind you, if you go abroad, i

feel the strength behind me, i feel that agility and that... pressure that just rushes out of me, the opportunity to create, and support, great support from my family , it’s probably, most likely, even, so, you and i are in my creative workshop, prilinget, it’s for the union of designers, i rent it, here i create my masterpieces, if i may... so to speak, evaluate my creativity, in this case i have a business card that will be presented at the republican festival of the song dubrovna, who performs in the form 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 a frag, which will be the next stage of my work, i really like the thoroughness of processing, i pay a lot of attention to this, because even if possible, i can also show you this frag that i have here presented for you to understand the thoroughness of my work on... how high-quality and meticulously everything is selected according to the drawing, that you won’t even see where our seams are combined, you see, that is, i specially selected the drawing so that each repeat pattern of this coupon, it would be consonantly connected and so that there are no visual boundaries.

i learned my precision and this precision from my favorite teacher. in design at the university at the moscow textile institute, we had tasks on making a mannequin, i put on a sleeve and the teacher came up to me and said: well here we’ll remove 0.2 mm, here we’ll remove 0.3 mm, i say: ekaterina, can i not redo this, she says: no, you can’t, lintyashka, lintyashka, 0.2 there, 0.3 here, there will be a completely different model, that’s it... these phrases, i pass on to my students every year to new students when they begin their studies in the discipline of design, i really love working with men’s collections, i really love them, because i like women’s it seems much easier to show, create for a man and surprise him and not

making him a laughing stock is a very big task, and just when i made the collection: this patriotism that these warriors possessed, they just inspired me so much, and so i thought, why not bring this skirt, i believe that the designer should... i was presented with a certificate from the minister of education of the republic of belarus, which i was very pleased to receive literally in winter. ideas are born, there are many of them, they need

to be realized with the help of the creativity of my students, of whom i can be proud, who glorify the vitebsk state psychological university, and for which special thanks to the rector of our university kuznetsov. andrey aleksandrovich, in the face of the fact that our designers deservedly take places abroad, representing belarus, belarusian design, our theme of sustainable fashion, eco-design. i met my destiny here in terms of family life. therefore, i am very grateful to this event, that is, i have a wonderful husband, a wonderful daughter, this warmth, cordiality and love

that surrounded me is, of course, fueled by thank you to my granddaughter for being there, for being wonderful, my gridushka, hope, my, daughter and her husband olliver and mother, mother is... in general, just a miracle, a divine woman, when i am in ryazan i always try in the summer i visit it, i walk around the ryazan expanses, this is only in ryazan, i need 2-3 weeks in order to nourish myself with my native land, my native birches, my native land, again visit my beloved village of konstantinovo, where my beloved sergei yessenin is from, in belarus i i rest differently, but my husband taught me to walk in the woods, which i earlier.