Yudashkin Biography Family

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. His path began with the Moscow Industrial College, from where he fell into practice in the fashion house Vyacheslav Zaitsev. The work of the eminent couturier inspired Yudashkin so much that he decided to follow in his footsteps. In the year, the senior artist of the Ministry of Household Services left a reliable profession for the sake of his own fashion house.

To achieve ambitious goals, Valentine went to anything: he and his wife sold their furniture, expensive clothes and a car to invest in creating a collection of clothes. Success was not long in coming: just a year later, Yudashkin won the location of the Russians, and in the year he conquered the French public with a collection inspired by Faberge jewelry. Fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin for the next 30 years, Valentine's name invariably sounded among the main fashion designers of Russia.

He sewed outfits for singers, artists and the first ladies of the country. Each year, Yudashkin was waiting for a high fashion week in Paris. His business included not only the production of clothing, but also jewelry and accessories. But the main outfits of couturier remained the main ones - exquisite, imbued with national Russian flavor, feminine and richly decorated. Yudashkin worked tirelessly, lived happily with his wife, visited his daughter abroad, who gave him three grandchildren.

The last years of his life, the fashion designer fought with a terrible disease: in the year, his kidney cancer was diagnosed. The fashion designer did not require condescension and pity and worked hard, representing a new collection every year. Childhood and youth Valentin Yudashkin was born in the village of Bakovka near Moscow on October 14. From early childhood, he showed interest in the world of fashion.

The boy drew all days and already at school began to work on full -fledged sketches of outfits.

The parents of Valentine, Abram Iosifovich and Raisa Petrovna, hoped that his son would choose a more “male” profession, but did not prevent him from engaging in, as they thought, hobbies. In childhood, Valentin Yudashkin entered the Moscow Industrial College, choosing a modeling faculty, but was drafted into the army. He served in the military unit in Zvenigorod.

One of the local officers recalled the following: Yudashkin served in a cartographic unit. A nineteen -year -old, smiling boy ... He never moved away from work, washed the barracks, fulfilled all the necessary standards, and after six months he received the rank of corporal. But everyone in the units knew him not only as an executive soldier. It turned out that he is a master with all his hands - and sews well, and does his hairstyles, and draws demobilization albums.

He decorated the rest of the rest in the card of the rest. Once a talented young man made a hairstyle to the wife of an ensign on the eve of her flying. The guests gasped - the woman was transformed beyond recognition. Since then, officer wives ran after Valya with a request to “bring Maraifet”. He never took money. The colleagues also appreciated him, because he never refused them a request to make a form in the figure.

At the same time, Yudashkin himself dressed as modestly as possible. After the demobilization, Valentin returned to the technical school and graduated with honors in the year, defending two diplomas at once - on the history of the costume and makeup. The beginning of his career during the pre -diplomic practice Valentine was on an internship at the fashion house Vyacheslav Zaitsev.

In his native Bakovka, a Soviet diva lived for Yudashkina, which was dressed by the famous couturier - politician Ekaterina Furtseva. Working with a fashion designer, his young successor greatly cherished. Valentin Yudashkin and Vyacheslav Zaitsev, after the end of the technical school, Yudashkin received the position of a senior artist in the design bureau of the Ministry of Household Services.

However, in fact, he had to work as a fashion designer, a stylist, and a makeup artist - sometimes around the clock. Soon he began to work in a cooperative atelier. There, Valentine independently organized his first show: he sewed outfits, which the models were demonstrated by guests in the lobby of the Orlenok Hotel. For residents of the USSR, accustomed to deficiency, luxury and bright colors of Yudashkin’s outfits have become a sip of fresh air.

Valentin Yudashkin in his youth inspired by the first success, Valentin opened his own company Vali Mod in the year. For the sake of the company, Yudashkin and his wife had to sell the car and fur coat inherited by the woman. Recognition abroad in the end of the 10s of the Soviet talented designer was noticed by representatives of the French fashion industry.

He was invited to participate in a high fashion week in Paris. In the year, Yudashkin first presented his collection to the foreign public, called Faberge. Spectators and the audience were delighted with outfits similar to precious products. Valentin Yudashkin in the year among those sitting in the hall was the famous designer Paco Raban. He praised his colleague’s skill and later became his good friend.

And some outfits from Faberge bought the Louvre and the California Fashion Museum. From that moment on the dresses from the Faberge collection, its couture collections were annually included in the Parisian Week of High Fashion.And in the year, Yudashkin, the only Russian designers, received the status of a Corresponding Member of the Parisian Syndicate of High Fashion.

Despite the fact that the French colleagues persistently recommended that he develop the workshop abroad, Valentine made a bet on his homeland and did not lose. Yudashkin’s first store earned in the Petrovsky passage. After 3 years, the collection of the fashion designer “City in the sand” was shown in the concert hall “Russia”. The shows were more and more like a grand show and were an important element of the secular life of the capital.

Valentine was the first to invite Primadonna to change the usual image to short hoodies, opening the slender legs of the performer. The fashion designer and artist eventually became close friends. In addition, the couturier has repeatedly created costumes for the Russian Olympic team and the uniform for the Stewardesses and Aeroflot pilots. The Russian Olympic team in costumes from Valentin Yudashkina, Valentin, began to develop a new direction in business - Yudashkin Jeans in the year.

In the same period, he received the title of People's Artist of Russia. His collections were invariably praised for fidelity to the national color, Russian motives were also traced in luxurious jewelry. In the year, the designer was attracted to the development of form samples for military personnel. Together with the fashion designer Igor Chapurin, Yudashkin created a ceremonial uniform, which, however, was soon at the center of the scandal.

Valentin Yudashkin at the presentation of a new military uniform in the year, conscripts from the Kemerovo region earned a hypothermia, and accusations rained down towards the couturier. But the audit of the General Staff found out that when sewing, the necessary materials were replaced by cheaper and poor -quality: instead of a modern Hollofiber, a synthetic winterizer inferior to him in all characteristics was used.

Yudashkin about the scandal with military form and, meanwhile, areas of the fashion designer’s business constantly developed. After 5 years, his fashion house launched a line of home goods - interior items, aromas, textiles. In the year, the designer developed a collection of exquisite jewelry from amber. Each year, Yudashkin presented new shows that made a splash for the Russian and foreign public.

He developed outfits for Svetlana Medvedeva and Olga Slutsker. In exclusive wedding dresses from the fashion designer, singer Glucose, Tatyana Navka and Natasha Koroleva went down the aisle. By that time, the Couturier company had several representative offices abroad, released not only outfits under the designer’s brand, but also jewelry, glasses, bags. A year later, during the cooperation of Yudashkin, a separate collection of clothing and accessories was released with Faberlic.

Yudashkin devoted a lot of time to the education of young designers: he led the educational project “Fashion Academy of Valentina Yudashkin” and gave lectures at the design department of the costume of the Russian State University named after A. Valentin Yudashkin at the Contemporary Art collection of the fashion designer “Once again about Love” was presented in the form of a play of the musical theater.

And the defile “Dutch still life” in the Kremlin Palace became a real colorful show, which Philip Kirkorov and Nikolai Baskov were fed. In the year, Yudashkin presented the charitable program “Shine! Don't let yourself go out! Within the framework of the project, the patients of the Moscow Center named after A. Loginov, women who fought with cancer, became the models for his show.

Valentin Yudashkin and participants in the charity project “SHIAY! The organizers noticed that the couturier did not speak out about the Russian special operation in Ukraine. Representatives of the high fashion federation expected Yudashkin to condemn the actions of his government, but he, in principle, refused any comments on this subject. But in the summer of the same year, Yudashkin presented a new collection in the Zaryadye Park, collecting all Russian stars at the event.

His outfits were made based on the Bvlgari jewelry house and had luxurious decoration with precious stones. Valentin Yudashkin, at the show in Zaryadye, the personal life of Valentin Yudashkin, the work gave Yudashkin not only recognition, but also personal happiness. In the year, at the Ministry of Household Services, Valentine met his colleague Marina Patalova, who worked as a hairdresser-stylist.

Pretty quickly, a novel started up in young people, and after a few dates Yudashkin made a proposal to the chosen one. They huddled in a modest apartment and worked hard, giving all the earnings to the development of the design brand Valentine. Yudashkina left the profession to help her husband. In the year, she gave birth to her daughter Galina. As soon as the girl was two months old, she returned to work.

Moreover, all this belonged to Marina, but she went to it for my sake, ”the fashion designer said. Valentin Yudashkin, in his youth with his wife and daughter, coped their marriage with both the lack of money and with a success that fell on the coutine, which is sometimes much more complicated. Over time, the spouse of the designer became the top manager of the house of Yudashkin, and his mother-the head of the department of the finished dress.Having matured, the daughter of Galina, who combined the work of the photographer-freelanceer and the art director at the father of the father, also has matured to the development of the family business.

In the year, the girl married businessman Peter Maksakov. Gorgeous dresses for the celebration, of course, created Yudashkin. One of the outfits, he manually turned it with pearls, beads and diamonds.