The Russian National Library opened the exhibition “Secrets of the Antique Wardrobe: St. Petersburg Fashions of the Art Nouveau Era.” Here you can learn in detail about what kind of fashionistas there were in St. Petersburg a hundred years ago.
Russian National Library
At the exhibition you can see rare publications from the library’s collections.
In terms of time frame, this is the 19th-20th centuries. Moreover, affected fashionable style trends of the 80s of the century before last before the NEP era, the history of the fashion industry in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg.
You can see rare publications from the library’s collections. These are fashion magazines, books, brochures, even price lists. Moreover, there are rare specimens. For example, the only pre-war issue of Vogue magazine, published in Paris in 1924.
You can also see patterns that were published in pre-revolutionary Russian and Soviet magazines. These are “Fashionable Light”, published in the capital in 1913, “Women’s Magazine”, published in Moscow in 1927, “Four Seasons” magazine, published in 1928.
Books about the art of women’s fashion are also very interesting, with advice on how to dress, maintain harmony in fashion trends, and develop your own style and taste. These books are richly illustrated, with drawings showing the path of women’s clothing from 1797 to 1898. One of the windows is dedicated to advertising brochures of St. Petersburg factories that produced clothes, underwear, and shoes.
Fashion houses are also represented at the exhibition, and very famous ones, which were preferred by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Maria Feodorovna, famous St. Petersburg singers, actresses and ballerinas. At the exhibition, visitors were able to carefully examine wardrobe items from the personal collection of theater artist Irina Birulya – corsets, cuffs, lace and other necessary accessories. And also admire the images from the collection of the stylist, creator of the Fashion Theater Mila Makovskaya.
The exhibition at the Russian National Library will run until January 19.
Source: rodina-history.ru
