Russian Fashion Council sets the dates for the new season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia will take place from March 12 to March 16, 2017, the second edition of Fashion Futurum International Conference is scheduled for March 16-17, 2017.

Over 100 young and established designers, Live Streaming Video, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Art Heritage Exhibition, vibrant street style - for one week all local and some international fashionistas are to be detected nearby Moscow Man?ge, the central venue of #MBFWRussia, next to Red Square. The Manege will host the Fall/Winter 2017 collections by fashion designers from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries.

On March 16-17 Fashion Futurum International Conference will gather global fashion leaders and top executives to discuss the future of fashion and share their experience and views on global fashion trends in form of panel discussions, presentations and public talks. The second edition of Fashion Futurum 2017 is dedicated to Disruption (of the fashion system). Nowadays the global fashion system is under significant pressure, it is subjected to drastic changes. However fashion remains one of the main creative elements of self-expression.

Previous speakers ofFashion Futurum were: Carlo Capasa (President of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana), Victor Evtuhov (State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation), Alexander Shumsky (President, Russian Fashion Council), Sara Maino (Head of Vogue Talents), Amanda Parkes (Chief of Technology & Research, Manufacture NY), Stefan Siegel (Founder and CEO, Not Just A Label), Danilo Venturi (Dean of Polimoda), Eddie Mullon (Launchmetrics, founder of Fashion GPS) and many others.

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