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I Keep Telling You, Fashion Always Comes Back. Radio direction finders of the USSR and the Russian Federation, from a very respectable catalogue of the Museum of Cryptography
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American actress, designer and philanthropist Elsie de Wolfe (1865-1950), by marriage Lady Mendl, in a velvet cape created specially for her in 1938 by Elsa Schiaparelli. The cape is dedicated to the Fountain of Apollo in the park of Versailles and is called, accordingly, Apollo of Versailles. The garment
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More Tolkien films are on the way. The vast, intricate and dazzling universe devised by Tolkien remains almost entirely unexplored on screen, and the producers mean to put that right. The rights have been bought, and work is under way. Judging by last year's «Rings of Power», with
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To keep boredom at bay, Oleg Kikimora sets up his own radio station, SPGS, and with his broadcasts shatters the silence of a nature reserve in hiding, lit only by smoky skies and the occasional saluting meteorite. The radio's programme consists of conversations with subscribers, for instance an
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Conversing with strangers on the internet reaches a new level
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And if, like the author of this infographic, you are working from the visual impressions of Peter Jackson's film adaptation, then one must not forget the Tower of Ecthelion on the uppermost tier of Minas Tirith, or Orthanc, for instance. Still, the comparison of the aesthetics of the
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This is how the Wicked Fairy Carabosse, the antagonist of The Sleeping Beauty, looked in Léon Bakst's version. A costume from the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" to the music of Tchaikovsky, in the production of Sergei Diaghilev's company.