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“We never saw a glimpse of the woman of Stalin, or Khrushchev, or Brezhnev, or all those Communist rulers,” he said. “In Russia, ballerinas and actresses always represented the embodiment of elegant ladies.”
Bolshoi ballerina Galina Ulanova, whose clothes and accessories fill two rooms, favored ripping pieces imported from London, Paris and Milan. Her more flamboyant choices incorporate a kangaroo-skin purse and a hot pink fur coat. Rival ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, who was married to a inclusive and closer to the political establishment, favored more conservative designs and Russian tailors. The most today's looks belong to dancer Maya Plisetskaya, whose minimalist pants and sweaters made her a contemplate for Pierre Cardin.
Revolutionary ideology labeled fashion a bourgeois relic. Undecorated, mass-produced clothing was to accompany women’s new r in the workforce. But from the beginning, Russian clotheshorses found ways around official dictates.
Visitors chance how Western fashions pervaded the clothing of the upper crust throughout the New Commercial Policy of the 1920s: the Charleston drop-waist dresses, cloche hats and women’s manner journals on display would have looked just as at home in Paris as in Moscow.
Source: Tne Moscow News