Valentin Yudashkin: personal life, wife, children

Childhood and youth

Valentin was born into a prosperous family, where his father, Abram Iosifovich, was always busy, providing for his family, working as a polisher at the Pravda publishing house. The boy's mother's name was Raisa Petrovna, and in addition to Valentin, she also raised his brother Evgeniy. The children often misbehaved together: they broke the chandelier or the windows.

Valya's love for sewing began in early childhood. At first the boy was interested in fine arts. Later, the love for drawing grew into a desire to create various images, as well as clothing sketches. While the same age boys were kicking a ball in the yard, Valya was coming up with different products and sewing them on a sewing machine.

Valya studied at a regular secondary school from 1971 to 1981. The parents wanted their son to choose what they considered a masculine profession. But seeing the young man’s serious attitude towards his long-term hobby, they accepted his choice, but hoping that in the future he would change his mind.

The parents dreamed that their son would continue his studies at a technical university, but Valya chose the Industrial College in Moscow, which was not prestigious at that time, where he entered the modeling department, where Valya was the only male student.

A year later, the young man was drafted to serve in the army, but even there the young man did not give up what he loved, he always found time to create new sketches.

Having served, Valentin graduated from the educational institution in 1986 with honors. Valya had two diploma works, on the topic: “Makeup and decorative cosmetics” and “History of costume”. The young specialist interned with the famous fashion designer Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zaitsev (born in 1938).

Professional activity

Valentin's first job was as a senior artist at the Ministry of Consumer Services. The young man’s duties included working not only as a stylist, fashion designer, but also as a makeup artist. There he was busy with work. Created sketches for the USSR national hairdressing and cosmetics team.

The first show of Valentin’s own collection took place in 1987 at the Orel Hotel (Moscow). After this show, the fashion designer became famous throughout the Soviet Union. In 1988, a young and talented fashion designer opens his own. Valentin was noticed by French fashion luminaries and invited to Paris.

Great success came to the young fashion designer in 1991, when he showed his clothing collection called “Faberge” for the first time at Paris Fashion Week.

Valentin showed more than 150 clothing models in the style of painting the highly prized Faberge eggs, which the public was delighted with. After the show, his name became known throughout the world. Valentin decided to soon return to Paris again to hit the European world of the fashion industry.

Valentin is the first and only corresponding member of the Paris Syndicate of Haute Couture. He opened his own Fashion House and began to produce not only clothes, but also other products: glasses, dishes, household items, jewelry.

In 1997 he opened the first boutique in Moscow. One of his first clients, secular women, was Raisa Gorbacheva. The services of the fashion designer were used by Svetlana Medvedeva, as well as many famous show business personalities: Glukoza (Natalia Ionova), Kirkorov, Gurchenko, Vetlitskaya, Babkina, Vaikule, Gazmanov, Pugacheva and others.

In 2007, the fashion designer was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in France. In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Honor for his contribution to fashion and culture of Russia.

Since 2012, Valentin has been the president of the Dance Sports Union in Russia. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the Style and Fashion channel. Has many honorary awards and prizes. The designer's clothes always featured motifs from Russian culture and history. Valentin has always been inspired by: the architecture of St. Petersburg, the era of Catherine I, Russian folk costumes and much more.

In 2008, the fashion designer developed a new military uniform for the Russian army. In 2020, the designer's collection was inspired by the blooming gardens of France. His outfits were in pastel colors and were distinguished by femininity and tenderness.

In 2020, perfume master Maurice Roucel created an incomparable fragrance for Faberlic, which he named Valentin Yudashkin Gold. The scent of the perfume is very refined and elegant - floral purple. Later, a commercial for these perfumes was created.

In 2020, collaborating with Faberlic, Valentin creates a clothing collection consisting mainly of dresses, skirts and blouses. On January 15, 2017, Valentin and his family took part in the program “While everyone is at home” with Timur Kizyakov.

Today he has his own brand “Valentin Yudashkin”. He produces haute couture and ready-to-wear items. Valentin's empire is rapidly growing and developing, only the quality of his products remains unchanged. His dresses are very popular among famous women. The Valentina fashion house is one of the best in Russia; it has a network of branded boutiques.

In 2020, Valentin continues his activities, releases new collections , appears on television, and gives interviews. His daughter Galina accompanies her father almost everywhere: both at work and at shows.

On October 14, 2018, the fashion designer celebrated his 55th birthday with his family, going to St. Petersburg for a couple of days.

Since October 18, 2020, Valentin has been a member of the jury in the new project “Podium” on the STS channel (an adaptation of the American show with presenter Heidi Klum). In the program, young designers from Russia compete for the main prize: one million rubles to create their own brand.

The host of the Russian version of the project was model and popular blogger Maria Minogarova. After a long break due to illness, the fashion designer returned to the screens again with a changed image and also noticeably thinner.

The Cursed House of Valentin Yudashkin

The relatives of the fashion designer's mother did not get out of prison

* The couturier's father stabbed his brother to death with a shoe knife because of an inheritance. And then I went to watch TV

* The relatives of the fashion designer's mother did not get out of prison

We recently revealed the family secret of the famous couturier Valentin YUDASHKIN, saying that his father served time for the murder of his brother (details). This happened in 1987. After that publication, the daughter of the deceased Leonid YUDASHKIN called us at the editorial office. She wanted to share her pain, with which she has lived all these 25 years.

-All these years I have been silent. And I am very grateful to Express Newspaper that you wrote about the brutal murder committed by Valentin Yudashkin’s ,” Eleonora Leonidovna began her sad story. “For all these years, no one—neither Valya, nor his brother Zhenya, nor their mother Raisa—has ever repented of what they did. But a very good man was killed, wise, intelligent, decent, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, who went through all the hardships of life, a patriot - my father Leonid Leonidovich Yudashkin. We have experienced terrible grief. Only the birth of my youngest son in 1988 brought me back to life. I named him after my dad.

- It's a terrible tragedy. Did something foretell trouble?

— Quarrels between the brothers began when their mother, Sara Iosifovna, died in 1980. Abram and Leonid inherited an inheritance of four acres on a plot where two houses were built - we used to live in one, Abram and his mother lived in the other, and then with his family. Dad, already having an apartment in Odintsovo, told his brother that he was going to come to Bakovka only in the summer, and the rest of the time the house and the entire plot were at his complete disposal. But for Abram, a stingy and greedy man, this seemed not enough. Valya’s father, out of anger, tore the roof off his father’s half - everything was flooded with water, he “irrigated” the apple trees with saltpeter, and they died. And before the tragedy, in winter, the brothers collided on the street, and Abram attacked with his fists, hitting him on the head with his backpack as hard as he could. Dad was hospitalized with a concussion. And then he sued him. For all. The final decision in the case was to be made on May 27. And on the 26th, late in the evening, dad passed away.

— You probably remember this day for the rest of your life?
— It was cold, it was raining. Around half past five in the evening, dad decided to go to Bakovka to check the gas boiler. He said he would be back soon. But it was already dark, and he still didn’t come. We thought we had decided to stay the night. And at about half past ten an unfamiliar woman came running to us and said: “Something happened to Lenya! Go to Bakovka urgently!” When they rushed, the police and an ambulance were standing at the house. Seeing on the ground under the sheet a wrist with an anchor that had been stuffed on him during his service on Solovki, I screamed. Then, as if in a terrible dream: Valya, his brother Zhenya, their father were taken out of the house, the neighbors began to tell that, having accidentally seen a bleeding body at the gate, they knocked on the house, Raya, Abram’s wife, opened the door and said in cold blood: “So what?” ? Call an ambulance if you want. What do we have to do with it? When the investigation was underway, I read the testimony of Raisa Petrovna: “Everything was quiet and calm with us. My husband was lying on the couch, watching TV and eating an orange.” The decision was made three months later. War veterans who served with dad came to the meeting and shouted with one voice: “How can this be?!” He went through the whole war, and died at the hands of this scoundrel!” In 1942, dad was 14 years old when he went to the Solovetsky school of cabin boys, where real sailors were trained from boys.

And at the age of 15-16 they went to sea and fought the enemy along with adults. Small boats - minesweepers - went out into the open mined sea, but not all returned back. Dad survived and reached Berlin. In 1945, he returned home to Bakovka, where he found a terrible picture: his mother, brother Abram (he is nine years younger than Leni) and sister Valentina were dying, swollen from hunger and cold. An 18-year-old boy, already a real victorious sailor, covered in medals, fed, warmed and put the whole family on their feet. And, by the way, his relatives always treated him like a dog: often the boy was kicked out into the street at night to guard the logs for building a house, they threw into his bowl what others had not finished eating. Dad did not remember evil. He always helped Abram, tried to save him from drunkenness. Soon after returning from the war, dad was sent to the Baltic for five years - he served in the Navy. Then he could not even imagine that he would die at the hands of his brother.

- What happened on that fateful evening? - There was no fight!
When dad left, Abram began calling him names through the fence. The father calmly replied: “It’s okay, hooligan, tomorrow you and I have a trial - the court will judge us.” And he was about to leave the gate, but Abram ran up from behind and stuck a shoe knife into his neck, right into the carotid artery. He knew where to hit to be sure - he was an experienced butcher, and he had also been in prison. — It turns out that Abram Iosifovich had two terms?

— He was imprisoned for trading matters. It seems they found some mismatched meat in his store. He sat there for two years, and my dad raised his boys. Valya later wrote a paper when the murder was being investigated (he could not come to the meeting - he went to Poland, his career was just beginning): “Uncle Lenya treated us like a father.” And Abram was always distinguished by cruelty. A real beast! I remember when I was a child, he burst into our house in a drunken stupor and broke all the dishes with an axe.

“And I remember when my grandfather and I once arrived in Bakovka, Abram burst into our door and screamed heart-rendingly: “I’ll kill you, Lenya!”
- notes Eleanor’s son Maxim, sitting next to us. “But my grandfather told me: “With me, don’t be afraid of anyone. And especially him - he is a coward! And he never will.” I did... It’s a pity that my grandfather is no longer with us. Even today he remains for me an example of courage, decency, justice, the personification of a real man. He did not tolerate betrayal and brought up in me the best human qualities. I miss him so much! — Eleanor, why do you think Abram decided to do this terrible thing?

“I was unable to prove in court that a premeditated murder occurred.” Although I'm sure of it. Probably, having gotten rid of his dad, Abram thought that he would get the house. He didn't know there was a will for me. In general, this house is cursed, covered in blood. In the early 50s, bandits who decided to rob her grandmother killed her two daughters, who became unwitting witnesses to the crime - seven-year-old Galya and 17-year-old Valya, by the way, after whom the now famous fashion designer Yudashkin is named.

Beggar Bride

— Did Valentin’s fame come as a surprise to you?

- No. He is a genius, talented, extraordinary. As soon as I picked up a doll for the first time, I became a fashion designer. He came up with such dresses and hairstyles. I loved my brother very much. I missed him. He is kind, sympathetic, not mean and stood out from the whole family. And he didn’t love his father. When he was sitting there for the first time, Valya admitted to me: “I don’t want him to come. I don’t want to see him!”

- Maybe their father beat them and Zhenya?

- Don't think. I have never heard of Abram hurting his children and wife. Before her, he walked around, became rowdy, and drank terribly. And one day my parents told him: “Enough! Get married. Raya is a good girl.” She really was modest and quiet. Although the whole family are real scum of society: they lived like beggars, they didn’t even really have a home, the father drank constantly, and the brothers did not get out of prison.

— How did Valentin meet his wife Marina?

- In Moscow. She was a hairdresser then. We started dating shortly before my dad died. Marina gave Valya a lift to Bakovka by car - they said her father was a cool hairdresser - he worked in a salon on Tverskaya, and her mother was an accountant at Charodeyka, which was on Kalininsky. Valya and Marina got married after the tragedy. And since we didn’t communicate after my dad’s murder, I wasn’t at the wedding. And I didn’t see his daughter Galya.

— Is it gratifying that, despite the grief that happened in the family, Valentin managed to rise like that? - I'm glad for his success.
But I don’t think that the death of my dad, my father’s term and subsequent death became a great grief for Valya. He abstracted himself from this misfortune. The main thing for him at that time was to find Cebo sandals and find a piece of brocade somewhere to sew a dress. - Do you think he will ever call you?

“I don’t expect any calls from them.” One day, a mutual friend of ours came from America and, visiting Valya, asked about us. Brother is rude about And recently, after the fact, I learned that war veterans turned to Valya for financial assistance in order to erect a monument to the Solovetsky cabin boys in Moscow. They knew that his uncle served in the islands. Probably, this was a chance to at least somehow atone for my dad, but Valentin refused. Of course, it is strange to me that the veterans did not turn to us this time, because previously we have repeatedly provided them with financial assistance. You know, I keep thinking: Doesn’t Valya have nightmares at night? Now things are moving towards old age. And, probably, when he is left alone with himself, the past haunts him: how coldly, knowing that his uncle was bleeding, he did not help him, did not call an ambulance, did not call his family. Why do I emphasize Valentine? He is the only bright spot in this family. It’s a shame to realize that with all the luxury, with all the splendor that surrounds them, human qualities are not inherent in these people.

DIALOGUE FAILED
we couldn’t help but find out what the famous couturier Valentin Yudashkin My call found the fashion designer in Paris, where his latest fashion show had just been a huge success. When asked to comment on the events of 25 years ago, Valentin Abramovich responded, unfortunately, predictably: “Yes, yes! What else do you want?!” - and hung up.

Personal life

Valentin is married to Maria (nee Potalova). They worked together at the same enterprise - the Ministry of Consumer Services, and at Faberlic she was a hairdresser. Valentin proposed to Maria three days after they met.

They have been living happily together for over 28 years. For a fashion designer, a wife is the keeper of the home, a muse and support in everything. One of the family’s close friends, Philip Kirkorov, said about Maria this way: “This is a real Russian woman who will stop a galloping horse and enter a burning hut.”

The wife always believed in her husband, in his abilities and talent. On December 22, 1990, a daughter was born into the family, who was named Galina. Today the girl has become a follower of her father. He is engaged in photography and is also the creative director of the fashion house of his famous father-fashion designer.

In 2020, Yudashkin’s daughter Galina married businessman Pyotr Maksakov (grandson of actress Lyudmila Maksakova). In 2020, Valentin’s first grandson was born, who was named Anatoly, in 2020 - Arkady.

Maria is an active woman, in addition to working at her husband’s Fashion House, she started a vegetable garden near her house and grows vegetables and herbs there. The couple live in the village of Bakovka, where they built a large house for several years.

In 2020, Valentin underwent serious kidney surgery (oncological disease). The fashion designer was unable to attend the show of his collection in Paris. At that time, his daughter Galina took control of the event, and she coped with this task perfectly.

After rehabilitation, Valentin found the strength to return to his favorite pastime and work. The life of a fashion designer is dedicated to the world of high fashion.

Family and personal life

Of course, the most prominent fashion designer in Russia is Valentin Yudashkin. His biography is more replete with facts from his professional life than with some gossip. Valentin has been married for a long time and, apparently, happily. Contrary to the established stereotype, he, like few other people in his profession, is a bearer of traditional sexual orientation. His wife Marina also works in the beauty industry - she is a hair stylist and has many international prizes and awards in her field. Serves as senior collections manager at her husband's House. Who knows, perhaps it was the reliable rear that helped Valentin confidently go through all the trials.

The only daughter Galina was often a model at the shows of her famous father’s collections. It's hard to stay away if your parents have their own fashion house, which is also a global brand. Now Galina is already an adult girl, a photographer by profession, she already has her own family. Valentin Abramovich's father has been dead for a long time, and his mother, Raisa Petrovna, also works at the Fashion House, holding the position of manager there.

As Yudashkin himself said in an interview, the family should not be exposed to the public. It is worthy of respect that his name in the media has never been mixed with any scandals or family squabbles. The only thing was that there were several short messages that the father, Abram Iosifovich, killed his brother in a fight many years ago. Press coverage of this fact is, rather, the result of journalists’ persistent desire to find some dark spot in the maestro’s biography - everything cannot be perfect.

Marina Yudashkina was noted in the press in 2020 in connection with a scandal about an underground casino in the house of which she is the owner. There is no direct evidence of her involvement in this.

Interesting Facts

• In Russia they call him the Russian Pierre Cardin. Valentin is always impeccably dressed and in a good mood.
• Valentin Yudashkin's height is 167 cm.
• He has never driven and never drives a car. Despite the fact that the fashion designer is famous all over the world, he is an introvert and very modest. For him, the most important thing in life is home comfort.
• His favorite model is his daughter.
• In 2012, he was Vladimir Putin’s confidant in the presidential elections of Russia.
• The famous and talented fashion designer actively uses social networks; he has accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
• Valentin also has a website for his brand Valentin Yudashkin.

Faberge

For three years, Yudashkin hatched plans to conquer the fashionable Olympus. Only in 1991 did he go to Paris with a collection that forever changed both his life and the ideas of foreigners about Russian fashion. He brought them the famous Russian brand in a new interpretation - the Faberge collection.

At the end of the fashion show, the couturier came out with models dressed in the most incredible costumes that resembled eggs.

Graceful lines, rich textures, traditional ornaments typical of the costume of the Russian nobility. The motifs that Faberge once conveyed in jewelry Easter eggs were read in every detail of the collection. At the end of the fashion show, the couturier came out with models dressed in the most incredible costumes that resembled eggs.

The French public was stunned and captivated. From that moment on, Valentin Yudashkin’s fashion house could rightfully bear the name of a high fashion house, and one of the costumes from that show remained in the Louvre and is exhibited as a work of art. “Valentin Yudashkin” has become a brand known to all fashionistas in the world.