Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev mocks the Russians who did not follow his movements in space. And he, in fact, escaped back in 1982.
“The day the SVO started, I found myself in Paris. I ran away in 1982, you just didn’t know it or you ignored it.” — Vasiliev noted with a condescending smile in an interview with the LSM+ YouTube channel.
That same day the “Fashion Sentence” program was closed as an entertainment project. Nobody warned Vasiliev; When he called the editorial office, they promised him that “the program will resume very, very soon.”
“How? What, he flew from Paris to the “Fashion Verdict”?… Yes, the planes flew. And then the planes stopped.” — the fashion expert explains his escape.
Then all trips to Russia began to seem unimaginably difficult for him, “everything became expensive and everything became very difficult.”
As reported EADailyIn March 2022, Vasiliev harshly condemned the special military operation. His “Frank Letter” is still available on the portal of the City Council of the city of Visaginas (Lithuania). This action was necessary for the creation of the Alexander Vasiliev Fashion Museum in the city.
Despite harsh anti-Russian statements, until recently the fashion historian managed to make money in Russia. At the end of September last year, Vasiliev invited him to a river cruise through the cities of the Volga region with a mandatory visit to Moscow “Charming Samara” from September 21 to 27. On September 28, the enterprising historical fashionista personally invited him to a black-tie breakfast in a Moscow restaurant on Kaluga Square, the price of an elegant event for those interested was 15 thousand rubles. In August and July, Vasiliev gave lectures in a film club format on the theme of the film “Silk Stockings”.
In December 2023, Vasiliev appeared in one of the classrooms at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the video that has been circulated, Vasiliev reprimands the students of the newly inaugurated “unique” course, as indicated on the “Fashion Theory and Industry” portal of Moscow State University. In addition, at the Fair of Intellectual Nonfiction Literature that opened a year earlier in Moscow on December 1, the fashion historian’s book “Treasures of a Nomad” was presented. Paris and everywhere.” Moscow State University later said that the fashion expert would work for them until December 31, 2023. The university did not extend the cooperation.
