Liuba Popova

Course Leader and Project Leader of Introduction to Fashion Design.

Costume & theatre designer, fashion journalist and teacher of History of Fashion. Graduated at the Moscow University of Technology and Design (Bachelor in Textile Technology and Design) and at the Accademia di Belle Arti Brera in Milan (Bachelor in Theatre Design), she took a Master Course in Scenography and Costume Design at the Centro di Formazione per Giovani Scenografi of the Teatro Alla Scala in Milan and studied under Prof. Tito Varisco.

Costume designer at Costume Dept. of Teatro Alla Scala in Milan in 1976-78, costume designer and scenographer at RAI – Italian National Broadcasting Corporation – in Milan from 1978 till 1987.
From 1980 till now: Teacher of History of Fashion and Theatrical Costume at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan.

Head of NABA School of Fashion and Textiles from 1993 till 2002. From 2000 till 2007: correspondent from Italy of “M-Collection” International Fashion Magazine in Russian and German Editions.

Collaboration with various fashion magazines, such as “Fashion Theory” (Moscow), “Risk Arte Oggi” (Milan), “Arpel” (Milan), “Around the World” (Moscow). Author and co-ordinator of various international projects, such as “Narcissism in Oscar Wilde and in Present-day Fashion”, with the support of the British Council and the European Commission in 1996.

Member of the Board of ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts) in Amsterdam from 1998 till 2002. Author of various conferences on “Sociological and Economical Aspects of the Italian Fashion System” at St. Petersburg International Fashion Industry Fair from 2004 till now.