Day three of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia started off with much aplomb, with a whole new slew of young designers to whet the visitors insatiable appetites.

      Following presentations by children’s designers Alta Costura and Olga Zavgorodnjaja, the audience moved on to the first major show of the third day - that by Snezhana Paderina of the New York-based brand SNEZHANA.NYC.

      The Parsons School of Design graduate is well-known for her love of architecture, technology and cyberpunk, and her interest in combining modern technology and traditional techniques in her approach.

      Her new FW 18-19 collection was titled DIGITAL FOLDING OF THE WORLD, and the spectators got what they usually expect from Paderina - a futuristic Japanese soundtrack, glossy evening wear, multifaceted slip dresses, sparkling with all the colors of the rainbow, sci-fi coats made of space age polymers and plastics. The models elaborate and slow movements emphasized that we are firmly in a dreamy Blade Runner world now. Combat boots and beautifully-crafted high heels accentuated the otherness of this collection, and modernist art was often incorporated into the garments. Yet the collection never felt like a lot of the same - every look brought out something new and different from the overall theme of the future, sustainability of our world, science fiction and Pan-Asiatism.