“Zaitsev lived in hell, he suffered a lot”: the former director of the Fashion House reproached the son of the legendary designer 05/03/2023, 09:55

The fashion designer died on April 30. “Red Dior”, whose outfits were worn by Soviet and Russian pop stars, struggled with the disease for a long time. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich fell ill in his studio, which is located in the suburbs. He was taken to the hospital with internal bleeding due to a stomach ulcer.

The last few years have been particularly hard for Zaitsev, said the former director of his Fashion House, Nikolai Golovin. He put the responsibility for it on the direct heir of Zajcev Yegor.

“You can’t call it life. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich lived in hell. No one answered his calls, he suffered from a lack of money, in general life was terrible. The Zaitsev we know and the last three or four years is a completely different story. How did it happen? Like a good, good parent, he believed in his child, in Yegor. I appointed him director and everything went downhill, “Golovin explained.

According to him, the death of his father did not become a tragedy for Yegor. Zaitsev the younger, on the other hand, was relieved, Golovin believes. He made it clear that Yegor can hardly imagine how work is done in the House of Fashion created by his father.

“He was on vacation, he was waiting. He was raised to hate his father, even though he never worked a day at the institution where his father was head. I, as the director of a fashion house, never saw him at work, at least eight hours to work. If the team forgave Slava for something and it was worth it, Yegor decided that the team would forgive him as well as Slava. No. Everyone got up and left,” Golovin said.

The ruin of the Zaitsev fashion house began a long time ago, Nikolai said. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich did a great and serious job in creating his collections. At the same time, Yegor began to sew. Golovin warned the fashion designer that it would “kill Dom”. “We refuse clients. This is money. What did Zaitsev do as a real parent? He said: “Nikolushka, take down a few of my models and let Yegor and Marusya do it,” Golovin added in an interview with Izvestia.

The question of Vjačeslav Michajlovič’s funeral remains open. Nikolai advised Zaitsev to discuss it with a notary during his lifetime, but it did not happen. Now Yegor is trying to quietly and quickly bury his father, assured the ex-director of the House of Fashion.

“According to the law, son Yegor does it. His task is to bury his father, whom he hated, as quickly and discreetly as possible, so that no one can say goodbye. The body is in the morgue. Zaitsev, I think, should be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery, he deserved it,” Nikolay added.