From 1995 to 2000 Alena Akhmadullina studied at St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, faculty of technology and clothes design. During her studies from the very first year she created two collections annually. As a rule it was avant-garde collections.
Professional achievements:
In March 2005 she began to work with Laurent Suchel PR agency in Paris.
In September 2003 Alena began to work with the MC2 Christine Mazza show room. And by now she has been working with it for 4 seasons and has sales in different boutiques: Dantone (Milan, Italy), Karma (Oderzo, Italy), Gaia (LA, USA), Galerie Amarna (Maastricht, Holland), Espace Mirage (Monaco) and in other boutiques in France, Switzerland, Korea and Hong-Kong.
Alena was twice present on the seminars in Denmark in International Design Center SAGA (December 1998; April 2002)
Since 2001 she’s been creating prêt-a-porter collections.
In October 2000 Alena took part in a competition GRAND FASHION CONCEPTS in Lüzerna, Switzerland.
In September 2000 she represented Russia at MITTELMODA competition in Gorizia, Italy.
In September 2000 in the national final of the competition “Smirnoff Fashion Award” in Moscow Alena became a prize-winner (3-rd place) with 2 models from “Draft de porter” collection.
In May 2000 in the competition of young designers “Needle of Admiralty-2000” in St Petersburg she won the first place in a nomination “Art-Parallel Worlds” and got grand-prix. She became an absolute winner with 7 works from “The Dragon Comes” collection.
In April 2000 she reached the final part of the competition of young designers “Russian Silhouette”, and won the second place in the regional semi-final with 5 works from “The Dragon Comes!” collection.
In March 2000 she got the first place in nomination “avant-garde” and became an absolute winner of the competition (“Golden hanger”). A dress from “The Dragon Comes” collection became a “Dress of the Year-2000”.
In September 1999 won the prize of the national final competition “International prize for Design of Smirnoff” in Moscow (3-rd place) with two models from “The woman’s laboratory” collection.
In March 1999 she reached the final in the competition of professional designers “Dress of the year” in Moscow with a dress from “Woman Evolution” collection.