The world-famous Russian designer Alena Akhmadulina was born into a complete family on June 5, 1978 in Sosnovy Bor.
Some information about childhood
Since childhood, Alena has been involved in sports, namely biathlon. She was also fond of musical creativity, attending a music school. At the age of seventeen, Alena Akhmadulina entered the St. Petersburg University of Design. Throughout her studies, the designer won many fashion competitions. For example, “Dress of the Year”, which took place in 2001.
Alena Akhmadulina: designer from Russia. Career start
After graduating from university in 2001, six months later, Alena Akhmadulina decided to create a new global brand, in the name of which she used her first and last name, only in Latin. To this day, the Alena Akhmadullina brand produces beautiful women's clothing and various accessories for it. After some time, Alena founded her own fashion house, and since then her design career has gone up the stairs.
AlenaAkhmadulina: dresses, skirts, shirts
Collections created by Akhmadulina are regularly presented in Paris at the well-known fashion week. For the first time, Alena took part in such an event in 2005, where she presented dresses, shirts and skirts based on the famous fairy tale “Tsokotukha the Fly”. Nowadays, Alena is presented in various fashion magazines as a treasure of Russian fashion.
In 2008, Akhmadulina was invited to work as a costume designer in Ivan Dykhovichny's film “Inhale-Exhale”. Two years later, Alena took up costumes for the Bazhov's Tales trilogy. In the same year, she was involved in the development of the Olympic uniform of the Russian national team. During the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow, the designer was working on T-shirts for the contest. During the Olympic Games in Italy, the “luminary of Russian fashion” created colorful costumes for the participants in the opening of the Olympics.
In April 2009, Alena Akhmadulina became a member of the well-known Snob project. After this project, as the designer herself says, she began to consider “the extermination of European snobbery in relation to Russian fashion” as her merit. Until now, her collections are in no way inferior to foreign analogues. They are even better than many European collections created by other foreign designers no less famous than Akhmadulina.
Design achievements of Alena Akhmadulina
Alena Akhmadulina has created women's clothing that combines femininity and audacity, elegance and courage at the same time. It was she who first introduced unique dresses with volumetric elements, the so-called 3D. Alena "dressed" all secular Moscow and St. Petersburg. She receives letters from all over the country. According to the famous magazine Elle, Alena is considered “one of the best designers in the world”, who received the Fashion Vector award. Her Alena Akhmadullina brand is sold in the most famous clothing stores around the world.
Alena Akhmadulina presented Russian fashion in a different light, thanks to which she became the owner of many awards in the field of fashion design. When creating the next line, the designer pays great attention to the quality of materials. Basically, she buys all the material at European auctions. Thus, clothing under the Alena Akhmadullina brand demonstrates excellent quality and unique design.
Alena was married, her husband was the famous producer Arkady Volkov. Thanks to him, Akhmadulina managed to promote her newly created brand at the initial stage, which eventually bore fruit. The designer's clothes are also worn by Russian pop stars, one of them is Zemfira, who likes the unique style created by Alena's clothes.
Our days
Today, Alena Akhmadulina has reached such heaven that in March 2015 she presented her unique autumn-winter collection for 2015 and 2016 to the world. The entire show was held within the well-known automobile company Mercedes Benz.
Alena Akhmadulina's models are regularly featured in famous magazines such as Vogue, I-D, Elle. Now the designer enters into contracts and works with many well-known companies around the world,with which she creates clothes and accessories adjacent to it for various events, after which Alena's clothes will undoubtedly end up on the pages of famous fashion magazines. Alena Akhmadulina's store is regularly visited by many famous people. Stars often use her services as a designer.