ZALEVSKIY

Born in 1974 in Kiev,
1993 – Graduated from Odessa theatrical and artistic school in specialties make-up artist and artist-puppeteer.
1994 – First collection “Passion for the bottle”.
1995 – First prize at the festival “Admiralty Needle” (St. Petersburg).
1997 – First fashion show within the frameworks of Ukrainian Fashion Week (UFW).
Start creating regular seasonal collections under the brand- ZALEVSKIY.
1999 – National award “Kiev Pectoral” (production designer and costume designer for the play “City of Masters”).
Since 1999 – juryman of UFW at the contest of young designers “Look into the future”.
Since 2000 – Establishing of event-studio “Z-event”. (Collaboration as a production director and co organizer of events within national fashion projects “Black pearl”, “Pearl of the season”, “Kiev Podium” etc.)
Since 2002-2007 – co presenter of popular TV-show “Chance”
Since 2004 – a member of Ukrainian Fashion Council– National association of Ukrainian designers.
Since 2006-2008 – co author and curator of charity project of “Fashion Aid”, intended to help HIV-infected.
Since 2007 – permanent director of Holiday Fashion Week (Odessa).
2008 – Release of photo album “ZALEVSKIY”.
2009 – Creating costumes for the play “The Cherry Orchard” A.P. Chekhov in Rivne Regional Music and Drama Theater.
Director of defile and style, costume author for the TV-show “50 Blondes” (Noviy channel, Ukraine).
2010 – Director TV-show “Star Plus Star 2” (1+1, Ukraine)
2012 – Started filming the feature film “Z JOKE” as a writer and director.
Stylist TV-show “Choirs Battle” (1 +1, Ukraine).
2013 – Film by A.Zalevskiy “Z JOKE” was nominated for five awards in London at International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema. Film won two awards — Best Director and Best Music for the film “Z JOKE”.
2014 – The world premiere of film “Z JOKE” was at the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), class “A”