In 2020 Demna Gvasalia announced the return of the Haute Couture line to the House of Balenciaga, where in Cristóbal Balenciaga's day it was the principal means of artistic expression

The graphic silhouette of the black dress with a hat from Demna's Autumn/Winter 2021-22 collection alludes to the elegant looks of the society lionesses of the 1950s, its lines and volumes inspired by archive Balenciaga models, their lines and volumes.

The white toiles are precisely a testament to the style of Cristóbal Balenciaga in 1961 and 1967, revealing the couturier's fascination with form, sculpture, architecture, geometry and proportion.

The knightly dress, I think, everyone remembers: it is Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2023-24

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

In 2020 Demna Gvasalia announced the return of the Haute Couture line to the House of Balenciaga, where in Cristóbal Balenciaga's day it was the principal means of artistic expression

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s