Alexander Serafimoff creates new colourful knitted dresses

16 Mar '06

3 min read

Alexander Serafimoff is a russian designer who creates knitted dresses illustrated with colourful landscapes and animals. He uses "100 percent natural" yarn (sheep's and llama's wool as well as cotton).

Alexander was Chief Specialist in a technical facility before ever thinking about fashion design. Alexander told me "Throughout all of my 39 years, I have been carried away by almost innumerable things: history, literature, painting, ethnography, design, "serious" cinematography, even karate. Thanks to all that stuff, my poor cerebrum has been transformed into a kaleidoscope."

So, how did Alexander begin designing clothing? It was just one more turn of the kaleidoscope.! "One time, my wife was preparing to knit herself a new dress. She got a German knitting magazine called Verena, and tried to choose something attractive. When I started to look at the illustrations, I suddenly discovered that all the images I pored over were strangely familiar to me. And I was reminded that a few days before, I had been turning over the pages of a huge book dedicated to the history of photography all over the world. One picture among others was one of the first color photos, showing an Alps resort around 1912.

There were so many happy, rosy-faced skiers, of both sexes, standing under snowy spruces, dressed in sweaters much like those I found in Verena. Men were decorated with manly crosses, rhomboid shapes, snow-flakes, with reindeers galloping from right shoulder to left. Women shamelessly tried to tempt men with flowers (of species unknown even to inveterate botanists), satin-stitched on their shoulders and breasts."

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