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The first line of the capital's GUM will turn into a place of divine haute couture for just over a month. Because she represents the outfits of those who are usually called the celestial inhabitants of the theater, cinema, and stage. The line is like a prototype of a podium and museum-quality exhibits. Hundreds of luxurious outfits cover the past seven decades. At the exhibition “Star Wardrobe” there are samples from the collection of fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev.
On the eve of the New Year holidays, GUM turned into a giant exhibition site. The “Star Wardrobe” of fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev opened here. Once upon a time, these dresses shone on stage along with their star owners. Today their life is different: they are stored in the dark, carefully wrapped in tissue paper and always lying down - on a hanger the fabric deteriorates from the weight of it and the decorations. Alexander Vasiliev’s collection includes more than 50 thousand costumes of film, theater, and pop artists. Stored in Russia, France and Lithuania. Today these things are back on stage in their own way - to the delight of thousands of fans. Alexander Vasiliev admits that the most difficult thing was to choose a hundred pairs of suitable shoes for each suit. However, this task is no more difficult than caring for the collection.
“Things need to be cleaned, not cleaned often, but upon receipt, because sometimes the dirt is so ingrained in the costumes that it corrodes over time,” says Alexander Vasiliev, “all artists wear tone. And the décolleté area is usually disfigured in tone. And then many things fluttered around the stage, not only breaks, wear and tear, but also all kinds of smudges, and beads fall, pearls fall, to restore it all.”
Vasiliev, who has been collecting his famous collection all over the world for more than 20 years, dreams of creating a national fashion museum. And there is plenty. On display is Lyudmila Zykina’s white stage costume, like the Snow Maiden’s, with fur-trimmed sleeves and heavy voluminous embroidery all over the dress. Next to it is a dress of miniature Nadezhda Rumyantseva - with expensive beaded embroidery in the center. Recognizable from afar - so similar in character - is the dress of the opera diva Elena Obraztsova. Or – the dress of singer Tamara Gverdtsiteli, embroidered with beads and glass beads, with a clear national flavor. Completely openwork, as if assembled from dried flowers, the suit from Olga Aroseva’s wardrobe is one of the latest additions to the collection. Natalya Fateeva and Lyudmila Gurchenko, Maya Plisetskaya and Anna Netrebko, Khibla Gerzmava and Yulia Borisova - each name is already a legend. Legends and their costumes. Pop stars, whose dresses are presented at the exhibition, also came to the opening.
“I liked the wide skirt, I could walk with long strides and practically take up the entire stage,” says People’s Artist of Russia Nadezhda Babkina. – This suit is much more modest, but the color palette is sharper. And this headdress is like a songbird. For example, some kind of frivolity, it would seem. But when I sang city romances in such a costume, it was impressive.”
The clothes of the stars end up in the collection of Alexander Vasiliev in different ways. Often relatives or neighbors give it away, sometimes you have to buy back the desired items. Vasiliev considers the items of the People's Artist of the USSR, the legendary Evdokia Turchaninova, to be one of the most unexpected additions to the collection.
“An artist of the Maly Theater who died in the early 60s,” says Alexander Vasiliev. “She kept part of her wardrobe at the dacha, which was not inherited by anyone. In an elite village near Moscow, the dacha turned out to be abandoned. Until the roof fell in, and until the neighbor climbed in and found two chests with Turchaninova’s dresses, which she wore in the 1890s, in the 1900s-40s. And now it’s with me.”
Fashion, as we know, is changeable and capricious. But when associated with the names of stars, it becomes more and more expensive over time, like good wine.
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Stars' wardrobes
Star dressing rooms are very similar to fashion boutiques: rows of shoes and dresses, dozens of pairs of jeans neatly hung and clothes arranged by color. And yet these rooms are different from each other and, of course, can tell a lot about their owners.
Eva Longoria's dressing room in her Los Angeles home occupies 133 square meters. Eva herself says that she prefers to wear comfortable clothes, so she has 50 pairs of jeans and several pairs of UGG boots. And the actress calls her shoes “beautiful pain,” because she twisted her ankle while wearing one of them in Paris.
Even a huge, climate-controlled walk-in closet can't hold all of Mariah Carey's . She says she has "about 1,000 pairs of shoes, and a lot of it is in storage." Decorated with gold leaf and white wood floors, Mariah believes the walk-in closet will only get better over time—just like a Louis Vuitton suitcase.
Hotel heiress Nicky Hilton sorts her outfits by designer: all Manolo in one place, Chanel in another, Louboutin in another. Nika's collection includes more than 200 bags, and all things in the dressing room are always in their place.
Paula Abdul , singer, choreographer and American Idol jury member, has a very large dressing room where all outfits are tagged. This simplifies the search and helps you quickly pack the necessary things for a trip or prepare for an event. Almost her entire shoe collection is with heels, while Paula herself claims that “a leather jacket, comfortable jeans and a good belt are all I need.” Apparently, Paula needs the rest of her impressive wardrobe solely for work.
There are probably many things in every celebrity's wardrobe that they will never have time to wear or even try on. These rooms can be taken on a tour, and you can also get a lot of ideas for organizing your wardrobe - for example, using tags, sorting by brands, colors or styles.
1). Jessica Alba's dressing room 2). Paris Hilton's dressing room
1). Oprah Winfrey's dressing room 2). Miley Cyrus's dressing room
This is how Rachel Zoe stores her things.
1). Olive Wilde's dressing room 2). Dita von Teese's dressing room
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