Fashion in the USSR. Soviet Kuznetsky, 14

Russian model and Russian designers in Paris, London, Milan and New York, flagship stores world-renowned brands, the consumer boom and the blossoming of "Glamour" - where are from all its in a country who has lived "behind the Iron Curtain" almost the entire twentieth century?

This book will reveal all the secrets of the Soviet fashion industry, will discuss the fate of people who were responsible for the image of a Soviet citizen.


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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.