This year, Eurasian Fashion Week’s coordinators are counting on coming of fashion designers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the People’s Republic of China, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Support Center’s official site (known as Yekaterinburg 2009) informs the readers.

‘The event coordinators believe the participants will be given a great chance to reveal their full potential both within and outside their home countries,’ the site states.

Eurasian Fashion Week is actually the new version of the older (and more universally recognized) Ural Fashion Week.

Yekaterinburg is to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on June 15, 2009. The summit will be attended by country leaders and government officials from Kazakhstan, the People’s Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. It’s possible that, because of the summit, next summer’s Eurasian Fashion Week will feature mainly fashion designers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states.