Autograph. Alexander Vasiliev. Russian fashion. 150 years in photos.

Autograph. Alexander Vasiliev. Russian fashion. 150 years in photos.
M. Slovo, 2008. - 448 p., fig. Hardcover, encyclopedic format. Excellent condition.

[Alexander Vasiliev's new book Russian Fashion: 150 Years in Photographs is the first such large-scale study of fashion in Russia, covering the second half of the XIX century and the entire XX century. Ball Dresses, frock coats, tailcoats, children's sailors ' coats and commissar's leathers, Moskvoshvey suits and dresses from private dressmakers, military uniforms and sports sweaters, summer sundresses and business suits of order-bearers flash by. Page after page, decade after decade, photographs follow the movement of Russian life for a century and a half: from the 1850s to the end of the XX century. These photographs, as well as the entire book by Alexander Vasiliev, show not only the changes in fashion, but also the colossal changes that took place over several epochs in the spiritual sphere - the change of ideas, tastes, moral and aesthetic guidelines. Russian Russian fashion turns 150 years into 150 years of Russian life. That is why the book by Alexander Vasiliev will be of interest not only to professionals: fashion historians, costume designers, photographers, directors, actors, journalists, but also to everyone who is important and needs that amazing sense of belonging to the common past, which is called the connection of times.]