The Junior Fashion & Design competition will be held at ILS on April 30. Contestants are preparing their collectionsб and the organizing committee is busy getting everything ready for the event.

“We eagerly await the opening of the Junior Fashion & Design competition,” notes ILS Principal Olga Shevchenko. “We hope that this will be one of the main events in the Vladivostok arts world this spring.”

And so… who are the judges? The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy:

Chair: Yulia Vorotnikova, founder of the LOPKHAN brand.

Yulia is a regular participant in Russian and international designer competitions.

• Annual design show скуфещк
• Prize winner at V.M Zaitsev fashion festival
• Awarded diploma by Russian Designers Union
• Participant in the annual Pygmalion international designers competitions
• Winner of “Best collection” award at Shorokh 2017 competition
• Participant in the Fashion day GML shows (2016-2019 and Local brand shows in the Russian Far East
• Participant in the Far East Beauty 2019 event in Vladivostok and Roscongress 2019 on Russian Island
• Participant in the Korean international fashion show Daegu international fashion culture 2019
• Diploma winner at Roscongress for participation and organizational assistance at Vostok fashion day 2019 in Moscow
• Founder of the Studio 27 young designers association in Vladivostok

Ivan Fedorov – fashion expert, designer, creator of original collections and successful projects, writer.

• Author of the book Fashion and Soul 
• Project team moderator and mentor at the Wool and Silk International festival, Far Eastern Craftmen's Association
• Founder of Pacific Fashion Palace, Vladivostok
• Winner of the National Creative Fashion Prize, fashion week Vladivostok, 2014
• Pacific Style Week 2014 project coordinator
• Creator of the Clothing for the Soul project
• Lecturer and consultant 
• Trainer at the Grimerka makeup center
• Author of articles on fashion and style

Lolita Kuzmenko

• Winner, Pygmalion International Young Designers Competition, Vladivostok, 2017 (caterogies: Debut, 2017; Pret-a-porte, 2018; Grand prize, 2019)
• Participant in the Russian Silhouette international competition for young designers, Mocsow
• Participant in the Fashion 4.0 young designers festival, Ivanovo
• Participant in Chenchoi fashion week, China 
• Organizer for Class/Pool by Class brand photos, photos for Brutus magazine: Far East I, Far East II, and Innocence in Japan
• Participant in various fashion exhibitions and competitions