Burka. Archive is about slow fashion, minimalism, achromatics, structured cuts, and quality materials. Outfits that remain beautifully silent, whether in the city or deep in the woods.

The brand’s designer and founder is Lesya Zavyalova from Eastern Siberia. She has been sewing and drawing since her school days, learning the craft from her fashion designer mother. Her background includes victories in international competitions for young designers (Exercise, Russian Silhouette 2017–2019), internships at Finn Flare and Paninter, and collaborations with artists of the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra as a stage costume designer.
Burka. Archive is based in Moscow since 2019. All pieces are tailored in Moscow.

To collaborate, please contact Lesya via email: burkaonline@gmail.com

about the brand

At the center of Thomas Bernhard's (1931–1989) novel The Loser (Der Untergeher) are the narrator (the sole survivor), the Canadian virtuoso pianist Glenn Gould, who died a natural death at the age of fifty-one, and Wertheimer, who committed suicide. The Loser consists almost entirely of memories and reflections on the relationships among the three characters. Wertheimer and the narrator are students in Vladimir Horowitz’s piano class. In 1953, they meet the then-young Glenn Gould, only to be woven as individual threads into the dense web of the Austrian musical world. The novel is written in the form of a continuous internal monologue, with long sentences, no paragraph breaks, obsessive repetitions, arbitrary italics, and a convulsive syntax. A stylistic signature of Thomas Bernhard.

Thomas Bernhard. Der Untergeher

on the bookshelf in november For readers who can in Russian

Plato, Thomas Bernhard, Agota Kristof, Julius Evola, Eduard Limonov, Roger Vitrac, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Flann O'Brien, Sergey Nechayev, Guy Debord, René Daumal, Matéi Visniec, Philippe Sollers, and some prose by Egory Prostospichkin dug up from the dustiest corners—these guys will help you get politics way better than any massive dictionary or screaming TV talking head.