Shenkar Student Wins Triumph Competition
Tatiana Pogrebnyak, a third-year student at Shenkar, is the happy winner of the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006
Every year, the Triumph underwear company conducts an international designers competition aimed at creating a collection that exposes underwear as part of the visible garment. This year, 438 young designers from 40 countries participated in the competition.
During the initial stages of the competition, the contestants were asked to send three sketches; seven designers were then chosen. The selected designs were put to a vote via the Internet and the three designers who received the highest number of votes moved on to the final stage, in which they were asked to design the selected sketches.
In the framework of the competition, the designers faced the creative challenge of designing three sets of underwear according to the concept "Dress up for Mozart – Rock up Rococo” – that is, a modern approach to the clothing that characterized the Rococo period in the 18th century, historic outfits suitable for a meeting between Madame de Pompadour and Mozart in the modern culture.
At a colorful awards ceremony held in Vienna on November 15, 2006, Tatiana Pogrebnyak was crowned as the happy winner. She is a third-year student in the Department of Fashion Design at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.
The three designs Tatiana created were inspired by the Rococo period as expressed in the style of dress and art of that period by Boucher, Fragonard, Lacret, Drouais and others, as well as by the architectural design and costumes of Madame de Pompadour.
Tatiana's designs present outer garments that incorporate underwear as an integral part of them, while adapting the texture and materials of the underwear and creating a harmonic ensemble. In this way, the clothing takes on a playful look, promising but not vulgar, and both hidden and visible.
One of the prominent elements in the designs, which are made of different types of silk, lace and silk organza, is the tea rose, which comprises a central motif in many works of art of that period; Madame de Pompadour was particularly fond of tea roses.
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