"This dress is a deep blue we designers my Studio and sewed for the contest "Miss Russia-2018", and what 18-year-old Julia Poschechina came to the crown of the winner. Behind the scenes of the competition joked that "Miss universe" wears "Miss Russia". And this dress was for Julia happy", — told reporters a TV presenter Oksana Fedorova, arrived in Nizhny Novgorod for the opening of the exhibition.
Among the outfits – wedding dress "Tsarevna Swan" from airy silk and French lace designer Alena Akhmadulina, outfit Polina Sidihina in which she first appeared on the Red carpet of the 68th Cannes film festival in 2015, and jacket Anna Gor, Director of the Volga-Vyatka branch of the center for contemporary art "Arsenal", which she wore to the opening of the first exhibition in 1998.
One of the exhibits of the exhibition was the wedding dress of the wife of the head of the Nizhny Novgorod region Ekaterina Nikitina. Modest white outfit, according to Gleb Nikitin, has a family special, sacred meaning.
"We were married five years after the wedding. And then a miracle happened, we've been waiting for so many years – we have had children. I believe that these events are connected. Therefore, this day and this dress I have been associated with the family, with the woman and with great happiness," admitted the acting Governor.
Special meaning guests of the exhibition saw and where it took place. The building, which experts call the "architectural gem" of Nizhny Novgorod, after four years of complete desolation return of Nizhny Novgorod. Here intend to open a centre of creative industries, which will host contemporary art exhibitions, concerts, musical evenings. And the exhibition "Dresses with history" opened a new page in the history of the industrial building, which will now be a place for creativity.