Aliona Doletskaya: boss of fashion

Aliona Doletskya, if not the main but one of the main actress on the Russian fashion industry stage who besides played her part perfectly and with chic.
Aliona Doletskaya is an editor-in-chief of Vogue Russian from the very beginning till today. The fact that the only nation that read magazine is Russian and that Russian women had and have the best sense of luxury products helped her to form and improve our tastes. Every month she gives us new ideas and inform us what is going on in the world of fashion every russian girl who is dreaming about high fashion has to buy this Bible every month. And at the same time Vogue Russia is the only magazine in Russia which target group is not limited by one age group but everyone who is interested in Fashion could find something useful and interesting according to its taste.

Chanel is in love with Russia

Karl Lagerfeld has never been to Russia. But that hasn´t stopped him from lauvnching a Russian collection entitled Paris-Moscow. The first glimpse of the collection was had at the premiere of a film about the great Coco CHanel, and her love affair with Russia. The doyenne of fshion once had a fling with Prince Dimitry Romanov, was friends with Igor Stravinsky and SErgei Diagilev. A descendant of the prince Kutuzov was her personal secretary. At the show in Paris, Russian models Sasha Pivovarova, Vlada Roslyakova, Tanya Diagilyeva and twenty more Russian beauties took to the catwalk. There were high-heels shaped like onion domes, head dresses wrought from plaited blonde hair and decorated with pearls, muffs and coats with fur trimming and gold embroidery, hand bags in the form of Faberge eggs....The models were suddenly transformed into haughty aristocratic maidens or emperors of all Russia. " I would have been utterly content t live in monarchy", confessed Karl. And Karl Lagerfeld has created his own kingdom in the land of Chanel, and rules it with absolute grace. His collection combines the best Russia has to offer- folklore and tradition; the bling of Russian orthodoxy and beauty of its women - in a way only a foreigner to Russia could. "It can be very different from reality, but that is the charm of it", says the designer.

Dior` s show in Moscow in 1959

It is an iteresting fact that Dior came to close USSR in 1959 to make a show and some fotoshoots. And I always ask myself what was the motivation to do this for Dior and USSR goverment to allow this event to happen?

Vogue British, "To Russia with love"

Leaving Russia but still loving it Natalia Vodianova shoed her "patria" so vivid and colourful in fotoshooting for Vogue British, May 2008.

“Perfumer”: chapter “Chanel №5”

Ernest Beux was born in Moscow in 1881. He had to live Russia in 1919 becuse when communists became to rule the country.
Beaux was introduced to Coco Chanel in 1920 by Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Chanel's lover at the time. Beaux was acquainted with the royal because his father had worked for the tsar (royal family).
When Mademoiselle Chanel asked him to work for her, in response to her request for a perfume, Beaux — according to his own words — presented her with two series of bottles, the first numbered 1 through 5, and the second, 20 through 24. According to Beaux' report of the meeting, she chose the bottle numbered "5" and, when asked what she would call it, told Beaux that she would call it "Number Five" — which she did.

Constructivism in fashion

This art movement that apperaed in Russia in 1920`s was a reply to the chages that came after Revolution 1917 year. People faced with new reality to work in fabrics. People was taught how to live in equal society and to share everything and with everyone. This make people to love their work places and make the beauty of fabrics ( metalic constructions, direct lines, sharp corners, red, white and blackk all these charactize constructivizm.
But constructivizm does not only apply to the art, fashion also took some features from it.
Several artists tried to work in clothes design with varying levels of success: Varvara Stepanova designed dresses with bright, geometric patterns that were mass-produced, although workers' overalls by Tatlin and Rodchenko never achieved this and remained prototypes. The painter and designer Lyubov Popova designed a kind of Constructivist flapper dress before her early death in 1924, the plans for which were published in the journal LEF. In these works Constructivists showed a willingness to involve themselves in fashion and the mass market, which they tried to balance with their Communist beliefs.

Polyakov: the best known russian male model

Danila Polyakov is one of the most popular models recently. He was born in Moscow, 24 years ago. But already he has succeded in the fashion world. Watanabe, Gauthier, Galliano, Yamamoto, Branquinho, Demeulmeesters, GF Ferre chose him.
No doubt that he is so popular for his extravagant appearance and behaviour. He is keen on playing with his androgonity. Transforming from a boy to a girl, and back.
written by Mayya Frid