Place of Birth & Education
Was born in Kharkov. At the age of 11, he began to attend courses on cutting and sewing. After the courses I went to the Kharkov Textile College. After graduating from college, he entered the Kiev University of Technology and Design. In addition, he completed training at the Hugo Boss factory in Germany and at the St. Martins college of Art in Britain.
Career
During his studies, he managed to work as a stylist for the New Channel, open his own design studio in Kiev and create a collection of clothes for the singer Ruslana for the Eurovision 2005 contest.
The andre TAN trademark was created in 2000 on the Ukrainian fashion market.
A wide audience learned about Andre thanks to the “Fashion Victim” project on the New Channel.
Soon the designer was invited to work as a stylist for the TV show “Chance” on the Inter TV channel.
In 2008 he hosted the program “ProFashion”, where he appeared in the guise of a famous designer, who strictly but fairly controlled and coordinated the undertakings of his future colleagues.
Since September 2010, the 1 + 1 channel started the show “Big transformation”, in which Andre showed how to choose the right clothes and apply makeup.
André Tan has won many awards, one of which he received from the hands of the famous couturier Paco Rabanne. His name is included in the “Book of Records of Ukraine” as the youngest and most promising designer in the country.
Included in the TOP-10 of the best fashion designers in Ukraine. Andrey is one of the most commercially successful designers in Ukraine and a regular participant in the Ukrainian Fashion Week. He created and patented his own direction of “intellectual fashion”.
His work has been influenced by such designers as YSL, Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney.
In Kiev, Andrey opened a school where stylists, designers, managers of the fashion industry study.
In autumn 2011, the restaurant “Andre Tan Concept Bar” was opened, to the launch of which the designer is directly involved.
In 2017, he supported the humanist initiative UAnimals and pledged not to use natural fur in future collections.
Family status
Divorced. Was thereenat on the entrepreneur Alina Kharechko, on March 20, 2016 they had a daughter.
Hobby
Indian philosophy and saj yoga.