Alexandre VASSILIEV-GOULEWICZ is an internationally acclaimed French costume and set designer, fashion historian, antiques collector, author of more than 30 books, founder and president of the Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation. Alexandre VASSILIEV-GOULEWICZ was born in Moscow in 1958 into a celebrated family of artists. His late father designed for the Bolshoi Theatre, his mother was an actress. From the age of 16 he worked at the Sovremennik Theater, then he studied at the Moscow Art Theater, he it graduated at the age of 22. In 1982 he moved to Paris where he immediately started to design for the French theatre. There he worked for the Theatre du Rond Point des Champs Elyses, the Studio of the Bastille Opera, the Lucernaire, the Cartoucherie, the Festival of Avignon, the Ballet du Nord, the Jeune Ballet de France and the Royal Opera of Versilles amongst others. VASSILIEV-GOULEWICZ designs for operas, plays, films and ballets for renowned companies all around the world. He tours the principal art colleges of the world as a guest lecturer in the history of fashion and stage design. Futhermore, he has one of the world’s largest private collections of period costumes and has showed it many times in France and abroad.