Pierre Cardin
In March 1965 Zaitsev became the Chief Designer at the All-Union Fashion House, which was also known as "Dom Modeli", on Kuznetsky Most. In April 1965 Pierre Cardin, Marc Bohan (then with Dior) and Guy Laroche visited Moscow and became familiar with Zaitsev's works, although Zaitsev wasn't present, and was covered in an article of "Paris Match". Pierre Cardin called Zaitsev an "equal among equals", and the French press dubbed him the "Red Dior" Between 19651968 Zaitsev's works, dubbed the "Russian series", were displayed abroad.