Vladimir Si­chov made his way from So­viet un­der­ground to French fash­ion houses, al­though his name is vir­tu­ally un­known to Russ­ian au­di­ence. The first ret­ro­spec­tive of Vladimir Si­chov in Saint Pe­ters­burg in­cludes more than 50 pho­tographs, pro­duced by the mas­ter be­tween the 1970s and 1990s. They de­pict every­day life in USSR, ex­hi­bi­tion open­ings, and por­traits of non­con­formist artists (Ilya Kabakov, Ilya Glazunov). Pho­tographs from the French pe­riod, 1980s — 1990s, cap­tured on film many promi­nent fig­ures of the world cul­ture: Karl Lager­feld, Yves Saint Lau­rent, Sonia Rykiel, Kenzō Takada, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hel­mut New­ton, and Mikhail Barysh­nikov.

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The ex­hi­bi­tion has been arranged for dis­play in Rus­sia by law firm “TM-Dedenсe.”

Law Firm “TM-Defenсe” ac­tively sup­ports cul­tural pro­jects and ini­tia­tives. In 2017, “TM-Defenсe” to­gether with the Shchu­sev State Mu­seum of Ar­chi­tec­ture or­ga­nized a large-scale ex­hi­bi­tion Dolce Vita of works by Ital­ian pho­tog­ra­pher Mar­cello Gep­petti. In 2018, as a part of St. Pe­ters­burg In­ter­na­tional Eco­nomic Forum, the firm de­signed and pro­duced in­no­v­a­tive light mul­ti­me­dia show in St. Anne's Lutheran Church.