Fashion Fates by Alexandre Vassiliev

Famous fashion historian reveals to the reader a vivid picture of the world the intertwining destinies of people and things. This is a fascinating article on the history of fashion in all its fullness the subject - from ancient Egypt to modern Russia.

This concerns the fate of the legendary fashion designers, artists and entertainers, famous people, those engaged in the fashion world, its artists in the broadest sense - from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli to the stars of silent movies and ballet, and to bohemia today.

"Fashion Fates" - the so-called new book is very well known in all around the world, a historian of fashion, art and theater designer Alexandre Vassiliev.

Little Dancer. Confession of Russian Emigrant by A. Vassiliev

In 2010 in Moscow, was published a book of memories 95-year old Parisian ballerina Kseniya Tripolitova by Al'pina publishing house. It's called "Little Dancer. Confession of Russian Emigrant" and is timed to 100 anniversary of Russian seasons. The entire text of a book written by Alexandre Vassiliev.

This book - the life story of emigrant from Russia, which has grown far from their homeland, Kseniya Tripolitova. Tripolitova was an actress cabaret, music hall and danced corps de ballet roles in Russian ballet.

By the will of fate, Kseniya Tripolitova has witnessed many historical events of the 20 century. She was born in tsarist times to the landlord family, survived the First World War and the Russian revolution, civil war, depression 30's, World War II and the Cold War between the West and the USSR, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, and only after all these years she has visited his homeland, but came only to visit.

Tripolitova wanted to open his own studio in Poland, but this plan has prevented the war. After this Tripolitova immediately got into the troupe of Russian Ballet Colonel de Basil, which was characteristic of a dancer, and then appeared in her life scenes of the cabaret and music hall in Europe.

Kseniya Tripolitova very fond of typical Russian dance, the mazurka. She danced on the stages of a cabaret in Paris, Nice, Germany, Switzerland, Egypt, Belgium and the Netherlands, has performed in theaters in Poland, Tunisia, Spain. Her teacher was a famous ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre of Lyubov Yegorova and her husband - a famous dancer prewar era Nikolay Tripolitov.

Tripolitova performed in a concert with Marlene Dietrich in liberated Paris. Familial dancer associated with aristocratic families in Russia, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Greece.

The book describes the interesting career artist, her thoughts and opinions about people who met her on her life. Many talked about the world of ballet, fashion, the backroom intrigues.

The book contains black-and-white photographs and documents from the personal archives of Kseniya Tripolitova. Printed edition on white paper, hard cover books and framed portrait of a ballerina Kseniya Tripolitova.

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Beauty in Exile and Russian Fashion: 150 Years in Photographs by A. Vassiliev

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.

"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.