Valentin Yudashkin has passed away at the age of 59 after a prolonged illness
FILE PHOTO: Fashion designers Valentin Yudashkin and Slava Zaitsev, right, during the show of his new collection at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall. © Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov
Renowned Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin has died at the age of 59, it was reported on Tuesday. His death comes after another icon of the country’s fashion industry, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, passed away on Sunday.
Yudashkin’s wife shared the news of his death with Russia’s Channel 1. In 2021, the designer revealed he had been fighting cancer since 2016, when doctors found a tumor in his kidney that had metastasized. The designer had continued to work while receiving treatment for his condition.
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