Economic punishment did not affect the business of the famous British fashion designer Paul Smith in the Russian Federation to leave the Russian market, he does fashion designer told the news Last Thursday.

Paul Smith is one of the most successful and respected fashion designers in the world. In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the rank of knight. Own 1st store was opened by Smith in 1970 in Nottingham, today boutiques Paul Smith are located all over the world.

"My 1st store was opened in the Russian capital in 2006, I've spent nearly 10 years working with the firm of Bosco, and very successfully. Punishment and the crisis has not affected My business, my clothes sold well - I am a happy person, " said Smith, noting that to leave the Russian market it is not going to.

in the Russian capital Smith opened on Wednesday a new boutique in "the Petrovsky passage" and spent Thursday creative meeting with admirers of his talent.

Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine. At the end of July 2014, the EU and the US said the penalties against entire sectors of Russia's economy. In response, Russia restricted imports of food items from countries that have imposed against her punishment.

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