Alexandre Vassiliev is an internationally acclaimed French costume and set designer as well as being a fashion historian. He was born in Moscow in 1958 into a celebrated family of artists. His late father designed for the Bolshoi Theatre, his mother was an actress.
First let me introduce Russian book by A. Vassiliev "Beauty in Exile". The book is intended for anyone interested in history, art, fashion.
First let me introduce Russian book by A. Vassiliev "Beauty in Exile". The book is intended for anyone interested in history, art, fashion.
"Beauty in Exile" - a journey in time, which invites the reader a well-known fashion historian and collector Alexander Vassiliev. The author tells fascinating stories about the world of Western fashion and the role played in it our compatriots, for various reasons have left Russia. It is difficult to recover the past: lost documents, leaving the living witnesses, the forgotten language of the time. However, in the book Alexander Vassilievmagically transferred to the seemingly elusive atmosphere of bygone decades.
