Lecture "Maya Plisetskaya and fashion of the XX century" in the Club of intellectual leisure "Optional"The 7th of December, 2018, 14:00

Olga Khoroshilova, a historian of art and costume, will present a lecture on Maya Plisetskaya and Twentieth Century Fashion. She will talk about how the celebrated ballerina became an icon of style, who shaped her delicate taste and what Russian emigres are like, how she worked with Parisian fashion designers and was ahead of European fashion trends.

You will learn many interesting stories about the ballerina’s things: a maxi fur coat, elastic bathing suit, Cardin dresses, silver shoes from Nadia Leger, bandit perfumes, Bejart gifts and a black dress coat Kurozuka.