London · Mores · People · Pop Culture
Maggie Smith with her son Toby Stephens. What? Yes! Incidentally, Maggie's elder son Chris Larkin is also an actor. When Toby was studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, a rumour went round that one of the students was Maggie Smith's child. Everyone
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As for the images from "Quiet Flows the Don", I was reminded of Ulyana Sergeenko's 2019 collection, which was inspired precisely by this screen adaptation of the novel. One can make out lace masks, prints on fabric with steppe landscapes, and headscarves
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"I have just confiscated an interesting little item from Mr Potter, a scroll of black magic." "It looks more like a parchment that tempts anyone who reads it. But it would be better to study its possible hidden properties."
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The greatest musician of all time? Mozart. One of his finest operas is "Don Giovanni". A pity that you cannot hear the hysteria of the audience at its staging in the Estates Theatre in Prague. But, happily, in 1979 Joseph Losey filmed a screen version that follows the
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Ulyana Sergeyenko has for the first time presented a full menswear line as well. The declared style of the 1920s is genuinely maintained, and one can make out allusions to the period in the work of Varvara Stepanova, Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova, grouped around the journal "LEF", when
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It is very beautiful! The online presentation of the Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2022 collection can be viewed on the website of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. I remind you that the House of Ulyana Sergeenko is the only Russian fashion house to
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Prince Nikolai of Denmark on the cover of the February–March issue of Vogue Scandinavia. The issue is devoted to the experience of growing up in monarchical regions
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Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, 22, grandson of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and son of Prince Joachim and Alexandra, at Paris Fashion Week. This season Prince Nikolai took part in the show of the unisex Fall/Winter 2022-2023 collection by Rains, the conceptual neo-Scandinavian outerwear
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture
At the Manege, on a very high level, runs the exhibition "Viktor Tsoi. The Hero's Path", with a beautiful audiovisual narrative about the life and work of the poet. The exhibition includes personal belongings, recordings, drawings and artefacts. Serious research has gone into it. I was
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Former Vogue editor André Leon Talley with actress and socialite Lee Radziwill. They were good friends, and died two years apart. In 2020 Talley's memoir The Chiffon Trenches was published, which he dedicated to Lee Radziwill with the words: "For three decades she gave me unconditional love,