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| Russian beauty against the Davos elders: who will win? |
| 2023-10-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova Exhausted girls in cast-offs fight in the mud. The thin young man (so that all the bones were sticking out) put boxes on his legs, and also covered the chicken breast and lower belly with boxes - it turned out to be such a Gogol Box. And I painted my nails for some reason, I was sick. Another man forgot to put on trousers - he went out in public in small swimming trunks and a jacket, although he did not forget his bra under the jacket. As Bulgakov said: “What, you were just walking through Paris?” - “No, I walked through Paris in my pants, and in the hall I took them off.” These are not scenes from the life of New York homeless people under the Brooklyn Bridge. These are episodes from the fashion shows of the most luxurious fashion houses presented this fall in Paris, Milan and New York. The main “look”, or simply the look, from the legendary couturiers for next summer looks something like this: torn tights, invisible panties on top, a small bra (this is now an accessory in the men’s wardrobe too), something like felt boots on the feet and something like a hare sheepskin coat on the shoulders (the hare, of course, is fake). All this is unisex. Such a set from a leading fashion house will cost the consumer from several thousand to several tens of thousands of euros - the cost of a used car. Few will be able to afford it. The younger generation probably won’t believe it, but 30 years ago the same fashion houses made truly beautiful things. The original idea was to find a cut that would suit a variety of people - at any age, of any build. Then these models were copied in the mass market - people bought, wore and were happy. They were pleased to look at themselves in the mirror. Around the 90s, the era of cocaine chic arrived, and fashion designers began to dress exclusively emaciated girls (and boys) of basketball height. People of average build realized that all this luxury was not for them. Now is the next turn of the Hegelian spiral. The creative thought of fashion designers has soared so much that even the most emaciated models with faces green from malnutrition and ideal hanger figures look downright bad in their clothes. They want to give alms, or even just buy some bread and feed them. No, you can, of course, lie to yourself that the latest fashion is very progressive and conceptual. But you can’t fool your eyes: it’s all just terrible. And these standards of universal human beauty are skin and bones, some have vitiligo (these are spots on the skin), some have specially smudged makeup. And all the rags and boxes hanging on them. It’s as if a capslock is sending a message to the public: it’s a shame to be beautiful, it’s no longer possible. Who can't, why can't? But it's as simple as that. Well, the unknown fathers from Davos don’t like it. Many of our authors often see some kind of unheard-of debauchery in the new fashion - straight out of Petrusha Verkhovensky. Well, of course, there are all kinds of skirts for men. But, in my opinion, everything is much worse. This is not debauchery - this is some kind of wild, embittered puritanism, which comes out either in MeToo, or in disputes about how athletes should dress, or in the abolition of Russians, or in the persecution of heterosexual men. Because if you take the boxes off the little guy from Milan and dress him in a classic suit, he will look like a god. His gaze will change, his gait will change, he will look in the mirror - he will be surprised at himself. But for some reason this scares unknown fathers. They don’t want us, women and men, to be beautiful; they really feel that beauty saves the world - and precisely from them and from their misanthropic ideology. Of course, it was vital for them to cancel the Russians, and, in fact, they began to do this immediately after the Sochi Olympics. We then too openly showed ourselves to the world - how beautiful, victorious, and unattainable we were. Well, we went to play our sport, and then we moved on to art, music, and ended up with “The Nutcracker.” It is absolutely no coincidence that if at fashion shows in Paris or Milan a truly stylish girl gets into the lens of photographers, then she is always Russian. However, why travel far? It’s enough to take a walk along Tverskaya or Nevsky on a summer day, and you see: people have realized that saving drowning people is the work of the drowning people themselves; they no longer watch fashion shows, but dress themselves - often with an amazing imagination and sense of style. By the way, our informal youth are great at the avant-garde - both accessories and makeup, all this is cool and impressive, but as far from the dull Western fashion shows as heaven is from earth. However, the public is not going to give up the classics at all. The pleasure of beautiful clothes is one of the main things in our lives, and it is not for the elders of Davos to start their own inquisition among us. In general, we often underestimate the civilizational gap between the West and Russia in our favor. In Europe, beautiful women were burned at the stake for centuries; in our country, beautiful women were loved and children were made for them, improving the gene pool. The religious leaders of Europe - from Savonarola to Calvin - always built some kind of terrible dictatorships, where beauty was declared the main sin. In our country, such fanatics were instantly neutralized by the state. The great fashion of the 20th century arose in Europe under the enormous influence of the Russians - our emigrants created fashion houses and set trends. Sergei Diaghilev, with his “Russian Seasons,” shaped the entire pre-war visual aesthetics - from the cut of dresses to Cocteau’s films. Already in Soviet times, our stars - from Plisetskaya to Baryshnikov - breaking through the Iron Curtain, brought Russian beauty to the Western Shirnar masses. In general, we taught them a lot. They were scared, of course, wild Puritan prejudices were bursting at the seams. In America, for example, they were afraid of performances by Diaghilev’s ballet - there are men dancing there, and even in tights, what a horror! Leading American newspapers were seriously discussing whether this was decent. Perhaps the current fear of the Davos elders is explained by the fact that a beautiful person is difficult to control. Men and women who are accustomed to receiving admiring glances go through life without much fear. And today's crowd man must be nervous, asexual, unsure of his sexuality and afraid of everything: disease, communication with people, carbon footprints, air travel, authoritarian dictators. Then this is an excellent building block for a future dystopia. Having canceled the Russians, the West slid towards a dictatorship similar to the one that Savonarola built in Florence. At that time, beautiful paintings, musical instruments, books, elegant clothes, and exquisite jewelry were burned en masse in the squares—they fought against “debauchery,” as they understood it. Well, have a nice trip. |
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| #5 Bring it on! |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-10-07 12:49 |
| #4 Russians have upped their game. |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-07 09:04 |
| #1 The great fashion of the 20th century arose in Europe under the enormous influence of the Russians "Russia is the homeland of elephants", is back? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-10-07 00:26 |