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• Second Life: 5 Russian Upcycling Brands

  From indestructible bags to Frankenstein-like sweaters, Russian brands are finding ways to turn recycled materials into eco-friendly fashion statements. Here’s our top pick of local companies that contribute to sustainable development without losing their style.

  02.11.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: June 26-27, 2021

  If you are also startled by this nearly unbearable heatwave in St. Pete, so are we! The good news is it’s supposedly already winding down tomorrow, while the weekend is promising to be punctuated by thunderstorms. To make sure you’re all set for the stormy end of the week, here is our usual guide to the best events in the city. 

  23.06.2021

• What Fashion and Urban Design Have in Common

  Why is the fashion of the future related to cities? How to make the production of clothes more eco-friendly? Olga Johnston Antonova, a leading expert in sustainable fashion in Russia and creator of the Redshift in Fashion project, talked about the eco-footprint of the fashion industry and common goals of urban design and fashion at an online lecture for ITMO students.

  19.01.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 1-2

  It’s hard to believe that this weekend will already be in February, right? Time seems to be flying by and it’s all we can do to enjoy ourselves as much as we can. And speaking about time, this weekend brings plenty of opportunities to time travel – from the 1970s to the ‘80s and ‘00s, and even to a parallel universe with cat statues coming to life… Intrigued? 

  29.01.2020

• Neon and Crocs: Dress Like a Russian

  Summer brings out the bright colors in St. Petersburg and its inhabitants. Personal style and sense of fashion shine in everything: from bold fashion choices to eccentric hair colors, like those done at the Pokras “spaceship” shop

  22.07.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 24-25

  Thinking about what to do this weekend? Here is our weekly list of the best things going on in the city!

  21.11.2018

• Limitless Fashion: Developing Adaptive Clothing For The Disabled

  The Limitless Fashion project was founded in 2016 by Valeria Kudrina, a student of Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design who’d been working with disabled people for several years by then. Some time later, she was joined by Polina Andreeva, her peer. The two students who studied on a costume design program started to develop a project on designing adaptive clothing for wheelchair users of different ages. The project got second place in the People Need You! federal contest conducted by ITMO’s Volunteer Center, and got into Tommy Hilfiger’s selection of top-20 socially important projects. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, Polina Andreeva spoke about how their project helps integrate handicapped people into society.

  27.09.2018

• IT and Fashion: How Will Technologies Revolutionize the Fashion Industry

  A smart jacket that can charge your smartphone, ties that blink according to one’s mood, biometric sportswear and haute couture dresses that change color - with each year, there are more and more smart fashion items, and technologies gradually conquer podiums. Yet, will that all be limited to dynamically lit jewelry or smart fabrics controlled with an iPhone? Surely not, believes Konstantin Karmanchik, advisor to ITMO's Innovations Office and founder of the CLMI venture integrator. Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence - all of that will soon allow any user to suit up in two clicks, as well as help designers to better understand the market's demands. In an interview with ITMO.NEWS, Mr. Karmanchik shared about what new fashion-startups should be like, what technologies will revolutionize the industry and how ITMO's research can contribute to that.

  31.03.2017

• Dynamically Lit Jewelry and Smart Backpacks: the Fashion of the Future by ITMO Students

  The history of "smart" clothing for the general public takes us back to the 90s, when the fashion sector started to experiment with electronics. A good example of that is the ICD+co jacket that was created by Levi Strauss&Co in collaboration with Phillips: the jacket was fixed with an MP3 player, a cellphone, headset and a control panel. Even before that, in the end of the 19th century, there also were attempts to combine clothing and electric elements: for instance, ballet dancer costumes fixed with electric light bulbs. As for today's market of smart clothing, it offers devices that not only have great design and usability, but have social functions as well.

  24.03.2017