The annual art and fashion show of our Project Associations in the Catherine Park, this year titled The Imperial Box, was dedicated to Russia’s Year of Theatre and attracted over 13,000 viewers on Sunday, June 23.

The top fashion designers of St Petersburg – Tatyana Parfionova, Leonid Alexeev, Lilia Kisselenko, Stas Lopatkin and Ianis Chamalidy – demonstrated their collections in a theatre marathon under the hand of the famous fashion director Sergei Lukovsky.

Their open-air runway shows started in the Catherine Park from 1 p.m. and lasted over six hours, with a final gala show near the Mirror Ponds where Ianis Chamalidy earlier offered his Dividuum collection in an avant-garde theatrical performance challenging current views on fashion and modern human.

Stas Lopatkin’s Memento Moda collection filled the alley by the Hermitage pavilion with symbols, crinolines, voluminous clothes, wigs and embroidered theatrical costumes.

Leonid Alexeev gained viewers’ admiration on the Grotto and Hermitage Alleys with his collection inspired by the history of the Moscow Art Theater and Anton Chekhov's plays.

Lilia Kisselenko made her models give a famous fables based performance on the Cameron Gallery Staircase.

In the Maids-of-Honour Garden, Tatyana Parfionova’s collection dedicated to the Chekhov plays The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters, showed lots of modern prints (mostly from her new collection Orphism) and animated Matisse’s Dance and Music.

This year’s glamour fest was preluded by Vladimir Buhinnik, a famous production designer, with his lecture "The Russian Seasons & the World’s Fashion" at the Evening Hall pavilion.