Ball gowns, corsets, silks, cute hats, elegant shoes... It's easy to touch history, breathe in the delicate smell of bygone eras - the Moscow Fashion Museum was created for true connoisseurs of vintage collections.

The history of fashion is an interesting science

Fashion and costume museums operate in many European capitals. According to the fashion trends of the past, you can restore pictures of customs, mores and life values all walks of life at different times.

You can study fashion different ways. True connoisseurs Costume history knows that you can still find unique pieces in private collections, among museum storerooms, and often the rarest things just gather dust in the forgotten chests of old apartments. Combining everything found into one living collection, restoring and systematizing is not an easy task. Reviews of visitors report that this is why ten years ago the first and only Fashion Museum in Russia was opened in Moscow.

How it all began

Feedback from visitors says that the idea of ​​​​creating a fashion gallery arose after the Valentino fashion house donated one of its collections to Moscow. And a year later, through the efforts of the future artistic director and famous fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin, a new state budgetary institution was registered.

For ten years, the Fashion Museum in Moscow did not have its own premises - all events were held in guest mode at other sites. Despite the difficulties, from the first day of its foundation, the museum participated in all fashion cultural events capital, invariably arousing public interest with original collections. Feedback from visitors said that the museum celebrated the housewarming only at the end of 2015, when, after many years of wandering, it finally received a permanent residence in Gostiny Dvor. The opening of the first exposition took place on December 23, 2015, when more than 100 clothing models demonstrating the fashion of the early 20th century were shown in the new exhibition halls.

From museum to exhibition center - ten years and dozens of exhibitions

Reading the reviews of visitors, you can find out that today the Fashion Museum in Moscow is a modern one where permanent exhibitions work, lectures, concerts, and exhibitions are held. Master classes and non-standard programs such as "Night at the Museum" and "Night of the Arts" are very popular with visitors. And back in 2007, future employees and enthusiasts bit by bit collected the first exposition, starting to realize the idea of ​​​​creating a museum.

Dresses, outerwear, shoes and jewelry from Russia, the USA, England, France - today more than 2,000 exhibits are kept in storerooms. Here are collected different models - from designer exclusive to nameless and everyday. Many of the things, especially shoes and accessories, required serious restoration and careful maintenance. Feedback from visitors notes that thanks to the professionalism of staff and volunteers, all the exhibits are in excellent condition today.

How does the museum live

You won't get bored in the museum halls. Thousands of visitors have already been convinced of this, many of whom managed not only to see the collections, but also to participate in various gallery events.

Exhibitions and stationary expositions are far from all that the Fashion Museum pleases its guests with. Eminent fashion designers and fashion historians regularly give lectures here. "Symbols in Art", "Lace in a Modern Suit", "From Imperial Luxury to Soviet Chic" - the topics of the author's lectures are varied and exciting, and the presenters are real devotees of fashion history.

It also gives shelter to young talents - fashion shows are constantly held here by the staff, the authors of which are students of colleges and universities.

Exhibitions and expositions

Visitor reviews explain that the expositions in the exhibition halls are always themed. The themes here are selected unique, nothing similar is shown anywhere else in the capital. For example, the permanent exhibition "Anthology of the Long Dress" shows how the women's fashion at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. And the exhibition “Man in Uniform. A look through the screen acquaints viewers with how historical military costumes for filming movies are created. One of the latest projects of the museum is the exhibition "On the noisy streets of Moscow" - a retrospective display of the fashion of three historical periods: the end of the 19th century, the 40s of the last century and Soviet fashion from 1950 to 1970.

An additional entourage to all the shows is added by the demonstration of films and documentaries about the history of fashion, which accompany each exhibition.

Working hours in the new house

In 2016, one of the largest under the name has a new permanent resident - the Fashion Museum. Address of the institution today: Moscow, st. Ilyinka, 4, entrance 1, second floor. On Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday, the exhibition halls are open from 11:00 to 19:00, Friday and Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00, and on Thursday from 12:00 to 19:00. On Monday, the Fashion Museum, like most, is closed to the public.

The total cost of the ticket is 150 rubles, for preferential categories(children, students, pensioners and disabled people) - 30 rubles. Here you can also book individual or group tours, the cost of which depends on the number of guests and the duration of the show.

A cycle of exhibition projects by the Alexander Vasilyev Foundation has started at VDNKh. During the year, Pavilion No. 16 "Hydrometeorology" will open three expositions dedicated to the costume of the 20th century: "Spring and Fashion", "Beach Fashion" and "Glamour of the 80s".

The exposition cycle was opened by an exhibition called Spring and fashion. Collection from the Alexander Vasiliev Foundation. Delicate colors, elegant stencil drawings, floral and floral motifs, gauze scarves, puffy new-look skirts introduced into fashion by Christian Dior in 1947, printed chintz and chiffon, crepe de chine and georgette crepe to the accompaniment of Soviet songs dedicated to spring , visitors to the exhibition will plunge into the nostalgic atmosphere of the 20th century. The exposition consisted of about 200 items: dresses, accessories, photographs, postcards and other artifacts from the Alexander Vasiliev Foundation. Guests will also enjoy the unusual flower decoration of the pavilion itself.

“Spring has a very strong influence on fashion. First, after hibernation, this is the first warm season when women and men begin to undress. Spring is a great time when you don't have to wear stockings and tights, gloves and mittens, fur coats and hats. Spring is an opportunity to move on to more joyful floral motifs in clothing."- says Alexander Vasiliev.

The exhibition presents world-class designer items made by famous French fashion houses: Dior, Patou, Lanvin, Cardin and others, and creations of famous domestic designers, in particular, Kirill Gasilin, curator of the exhibition, provided his own model, this luxurious new-look dress, made of organdy and embroidered with artificial lilies of the valley.

“Many exhibits are associated with the names of famous singers, actresses and ballerinas. And, of course, most of the exhibition will be made up of dresses from the Soviet period, sewn from trophy fabric, created by private dressmakers or in ateliers, purchased in domestic department stores. The most interesting exhibit will be a 1961 synthetic straw suit, made in a special workshop for KGB officers,”- tells Alexander Vasiliev.

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October 26 Theater Museum. A.A. Bakhrushin opened the exhibition “Theatrical costume at the turn of the century. 1990 - 2015" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. More than 260 designers from 32 countries of the world take part in the exhibition, whose works represent the development trends in the field of designer costumes for drama theater, opera, dance, cinema, fashion for 25 years.

The purpose of the exhibition is to review and evaluate the design of the stage costume of the period of the late 20th - early 21st centuries on a global scale. “With this exhibition, we are not trying to identify or create specific trends or directions in theatrical design or fashion design,” writes exhibition curator Igor Rusanoff, “we are more interested in a diversity of opinions, recent developments in the field of design and technology, a variety of ideas and character interpretations. The artistic vocabulary of images and the unique style of narration of each of the designers are more important than the visually unified concept of the exhibition.”

At the vernissage curators of the exhibition “Theatrical costume at the turn of the century. 1990 - 2015" from different countries presented projects by young artists as part of the exhibition "Innovative Costume of the 21st Century: New Generation", which the Bakhrushinsky Museum will open at the State Historical Museum in the summer of 2019.

Exhibition project “Theatrical costume at the turn of the century. 1990 - 2015 "was held at the Theater Museum. A.A. Bakhrushin in 2015. The exhibition was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the world theater community - OISTAT / international organization stage designers, theater architects and technologists / and USITT / US Institute of Theater Technology /.

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Scientific Secretary of the GTsTM them. A.A. Bakhrushina Irina Gamula and exhibition curator Igor Rusanoff in the exhibition space
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Alexandra Frolova and Andrey Bartenev
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