A Real Fashion Statement from Russia: Genitals
[We didn't run this blurb on the Russia! blog yet, will see how it works in the LJ community:))]
After the 1920s, when the world embraced Malevich's cubic shapes and Bakst's Byzantine fashions, Russia continuously failed to introduce something original to the the world of high fashion. The most prominent Russian fashion designer Denis Simachev is famous for using "khokhloma", the ethnic slavic decor which has been around for centuries. Simachev is also famous for designing a t-shirt where Vladimir Putin's face is surrounded by flowers.
Well, Russia finally has something to offer to the fashion world. And that something is a t-shirt where one's aroused penis is sticking out of one's jeans. >
IMAGE VIA maratguelman
This t-shirt is a brilliant and true metaphor of Russia' foreign policy. It can illustrate perfectly such diverse and important issues as joining the World Trade Organization, lowering prices on natural gas, cooperating with international courts system, among other things. That's what we thing the fashion should be: simple and minimalist design along with important social and political context.