Pop Culture - The Parnassian (Page 40)

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Barbie's Life in a Communal Flat

Barbie's Life in a Communal Flat. Lara Vychuzhanina

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A Meissen candelabrum of 1790 on seeing grocery prices in 2023

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French Aristocratic Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

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I don't know which musical event is on in Kostroma just now, but on a tour of the Ipatiev Monastery I bumped into Sergey Shnurov

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Valentin Gaft's poem addressed to Yuri Vizbor on contemporary pop music

Pop music rakes our souls with shrapnel, You cannot haul it into court for that. Part of a generation grew up on nonsense, And a new one is being born in delirium… Oh, “Forest Sun”, wondrous song! How we sang in captivity, we oddballs! Freedom came, and more interesting became

Black-and-white photo of a woman in a short dress and cap covered with flowers walking hand in hand with a man in a dark suit, with children and a policeman behind.

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Susan Hampshire married in 1967 in a Dior dress with organza daisies

A Dior dress with hundreds of organza daisies. The actress Susan Hampshire wore it on her wedding day in 1967

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Hubert de Givenchy's Green Drawing Room

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Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons on censorship and political correctness in a 2016 interview

I did not bother to look into why Miuccia Prada, one of the foremost designers of our time, is being cancelled just now, but I found a 2016 interview in which she anticipated her own vulnerable position. Jonathan Wingfield sent the young Tavi Gevinson, the stylist Katie Grand and the

View from below of a spiral metal slide curving along a building wall with windows, with a tall pole in front.

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Juergen Teller’s 2016 photograph of a spiral metal slide on a building facade

The slide by which Miuccia Prada leaves her office. Photograph by Juergen Teller, 2016

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79-year-old Welsh musician forced to deny rumour that he is Meghan Markle in disguise, who slipped into the coronation incognito

A 79-year-old Welsh musician has had to deny a rumour that he is Meghan Markle in disguise, who slipped into the coronation incognito. But what a likeness!

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I don't know whom I'm gladder to see, Maggie Smith in a blue hat or Joanna Lumley in a white one

Three watercolour drawings in light frames on a grey museum wall, showing women in red dresses and in white outfits.

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Sketches and drawings by Vyacheslav Zaitsev at the “House of Fashion. Industry of Images” exhibition at the Museum of Moscow

Sketches and drawings by Vyacheslav Zaitsev. The exhibition “House of Models. Industry of Images” at the Museum of Moscow