Inside Gosha Rubchinskiy’s Post-Soviet Generation

In this episode of Global Street Style, i-D heads to Russia for exclusive backstage access to Gosha Rubchinskiy’s spring/summer 18 show in St. Petersburg, and to meet the prolific post-1991 generation carving out their own future. This is the first generation of Russian youth to have grown up after the fall of the Soviet Union, and are looking inwards to the Eastern Bloc for inspiration, rather than the wider Western world. With designers like Gosha Rubchinskiy popularising post-Soviet style around the world, we discover what effect the former Soviet Union has had on modern creativity, the impact of this cultural explosion on the rest of the world, and what it is to be young in Russia today. Director Tom Ivin Producer Declan Higgins Global Executive Producer Eloise King Researcher Lily Rose Thomas Director of Photography Sasha Kulak Assistant Camera Alexandr Cherviakov Sound Recordist Anton Baranov Fixer Pavel Milovidov, You Ask We Fix Editor Isolde Penwarden Colourist George Dutton Sound Mix Guy Chase Narrator Leala-Rain Shonaiya Production Manager Lauran Clark Production Coordinator Rosa Harris Edmonds Post Production Manager Tom Lynch Post Production Coordinator Regina Lemaire-Costa Translator Natalia Yudina Rights & Clearances Cristina Lombardo Music Supervisor Alex Benge Music Coordinator Bonnie Reilly Senior Designer Rebecca Boyd-Wallis Designer Kristina Britton Production Accountant David Gray Equipment Manager Richard Smith Equipment Assistant Henry Cotsford Post Tech Supervisor Dominic Brouard Commercial Creative Director Bunny Kinney VP Production, UK Bree Horn Production Executive Shelley Hurley Head of Post Production Daniel Elias Channel Manager, UK Jordan Joseph Music “Ariadna” Written and Performed by Yana Kedrina Courtesy of 2MR “XFaw”, “Arm Industrial”, “Rassveting” (as performed on Gosha Rubchinskiy Spring/Summer 18 soundtrack) “Dub Hole”, “SH-min”, “Dubber Funk”, “Beats One”, “Cxema-303”, “Silent Elektro” Written and Performed by Pavel Milyakov Courtesy of Buttechno Photos Courtesy of Tolia Titaev, Valentin Fufaev, Lumpen Agency, Sasha Mademuaselle, Artem Nanushyan, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Igor Bystriy Archival Video Courtesy of Ulya Trukhina, Sargon Khinoev, Tolia Titaev, Gosha Rubchinskiy Special Thanks Anna Foresman at Comme Des Garçons, Justinian Kfoury at Total World, Sasha Mademuaselle. Follow i-D: YouTube Twitter Facebook: Pinterest: Tumblr: Instagram: Soundcloud: More videos from the VICE network: