"Her breathtaking designs are born from local legends as well as materials - among them fur, birch bark and even ivory from extinct woolly mammoths - that easily come to hand in her native Yakutia, officially known as the Sakha Republic, the largest region in Siberia and the Russian Federation.
Aged 67, Avgustina runs and creative fashion lab and atelier at the Pedagogical Institute of the North-Eastern Federal University, where she trains students in different methods of sewing, use of textiles, embroidery and design. She makes costumes for traditional Yakutian celebrations, and has a hungry market for her exceptional work in pop singers, dancing troupes, catwalk shows and weddings.
The approximate cost of a dress - 200,000 rouble or $2,880 - means the buyer gets an entirely unique creation, and her work has been seen on the catwalks of Moscow, Paris, Cannes, and Rome as well as in Scandinavia although she has resisted offers to go and work permanently in the West, preferring her beloved motherland of Yakutia." source & more