Shooting the Boroduin's show backstage.
Russian Fashion Week: Red Square Detour
RFW shows start around 17.30, so the whole day is available for sightseeing. The quickest, most affordable way of getting around is the Moscow Metro. The Metro also serves as a very simple intelligence test: can you find your way when there is almost no signage and the signs you do see are in Cyrillic? What's cool is the little underground cities built into the passageways to the Metro, which include a begging dog. Got off at the Okhotny Ryad station on the edge of Red Square. The square was almost empty save for the balloon vendor and a motley crew of russian scammers. The first guy drops a pack of russian rubles, you pick it up and hand it to him, he's grateful, then another guy comes up and flashes a badge and asks to see your passport. I tell them, look, the way I would play it is the guy dropping the money is mad you gave it back, that would confuse you, then the guy posing as the cop is the friendly one. As I'm explaining this they unfortunately disperse...And yes I gave money to the dog.
Russian Fashion Week: Slava Zaitsev Backstage and Runway
Slava Zaitsev was the first show of RFW because of his revered status in Russian fashion and his ability to put on an hour long show where he ad libs throughout the show. Phenomenal clothes and quality, although a PETA bad dream.
Paris Fashion Week FW09: Alexander McQueen
The most interesting photo on display, out of thousands, at Photo LA earlier in the year was easily a photo by Hendrik Kerstens. The photo was of a young woman shot in serene, window lit, dutch master style. Although the photograph was large, it took a while to see that the subject was wearing not a scarf but a plastic bag on her head. Alexander McQueen's invitation to his fashion show featured that photograph, almost 16 x 20 once unfolded. The reason he picked that photo was clear when you entered the show and saw a huge mound of garbage, literally steaming. Both the photograph and the show reflect on beauty, timelessness and waste.
Krizia Podium
Shockingly well behaved podium considering the almost medievel look of the photographers.
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