HELSINKI FASHION WEEK 2016 ARTIST & DESIGNER INTRODUCTION
SERGEY BONDAREV

SERGEY BONDAREV WAS BORN 1980 IN EKATERINBURG, RUSSIA.
IN 2004 HE WAS SHOWING HIS FIRST FASHION COLLECTION AT THE URAL FASHION WEEK. SINCE 2002 HE IS COOPERATING WITH VARIOUS FASHION MAGAZINES FROM MOSCOW, ISTANBUL AND EKATERINBURG AS A FASHION EDITOR AND ILLUSTRATOR SUCH AS MARIE CLAIRE, ARENA, INSTYLE, ELLE, ROLLING STONES ETC.
IN AUTUMN OF 2009 HE MOVED TO SAINT-PETERSBURG TO START A NEW PROJECT CALLED ‘KultuRRa’ WHICH IS A UNIQUE PLATFORM OPERATING BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE TO SUPPORT THE RUSSIAN DESIGN INDUSTRY AND HELP DESIGNERS WITH THEIR PROMOTION, DISTRIBUTION ETC.
THE BRAND BONDAREV WAS FOUNDED IN WINTER 2011 AND ONLY TWO YEARS LATER HE OPENED HIS OWN SHOP OF DESIGNER CLOTHING IN SAINT-PETERSBURG CALLED ‘MARMELADOVA-BUKETIK’ AND A RETRO BARBERSHOP ‘BUKLYA’.
IN OCTOBER 2015 HE OPENED A GROUP EXHIBITION CALLED ‘12 CHAIRS’ IN THE ROSTOV REGIONAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. IN THE SAME YEAR, HE WON THE BEST ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2015-AWARD IN SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

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