The exhibition is devoted to the history of alternative fashion movement that has emerged at the turn of the rock scene and club-skvotterskoy culture, from the beginning of perestroika before coming to Russia, glossy fashion publications in the mid 1990&#

CSK "garage", April 28 - June 12, 2011

Today CSK Garage "presents" Alternative fashion before the arrival of gloss, 1985-1995 ", dedicated to the history of alternative fashion movement that has emerged at the turn of the rock scene and club-skvotterskoy culture, from the beginning of perestroika before coming to Russia, glossy fashion publications in the mid 1990's .

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In the mid 1980's heady air of freedom has provoked an unprecedented climb underground culture. As a result of convergence of avant-garde artists, musicians, members of subcultures - punks, rockers, nyuveyverov - there was a unique phenomenon of alternative fashion shows which often turned into performance. Podiums are not only the stage house models at the Kuznetsk Bridge, view "Popular Mechanics" Sergei Kurekhin, scene Sovintsentra, but squats, concert halls, where rock music blared, and just the central city streets. Alternative fashion became famous thanks to an incredible mix - crinolines from climbing blankets and French lace tunics with open backs and skirts, the folds are suspiciously reminiscent of the curtains. The emergence of a new fashion movement occurred in the period of the revolutionary inter-temporal, when the Soviet fashion ignominiously dying under the weight of imports and new tastes everyman.

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In the period 1985-1995 an alternative fashion, the experimental character which attracted the attention of the Western press, has become a symbol of changing times and business card-perestroika Soviet Union abroad. The role of trendsetters fell to avant-garde artists and fashionistas party people expressed their attitude to modernity through the images and things.

If at the start of an alternative fashion movement is a romantic and bold initiative, then at the finish alternative fashion designers have created demand for a professional international copyright collections and shows. The phenomenon of alternative modes was observed and evaluated by Western fashion designers such as Vivienne Westwood, was previously thought that the country sickles and hammers no fashion can not be, and Yoji Yamamoto, for which the demonstrations were arranged at the center of Moscow's fashionable freemen - in Petrovsky Boulevard. Paco Rabban, Andrew Logan, Zandra Rhodes and many other lesser-known European fashion designers considered it interesting to take part in the Riga Assembly untamed fashion, organized by Bruno Birmanis. One of the symbols of Russian recognition of alternative modes of appropriation has become the title of "Alternative Miss World - 98" Pani Armor (Dubner) - model, avant-garde artist Alexander Petlyury (Lyashenko). The exhibition shows about 100 photographs with fashionable images created Katya Katya Filippova , Gosha Ostretsov , Alexander Petlyura, Andrey Bartenev, Kate Mikulsky-Mosin, Cathay Ryzhikova, Irene Burmistrova, a duet of La Fe and Bruno Birmanisom.

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Curators:

Irina Meglinskaya - Russian expert in the field of photography, curator and lecturer. In 1991 at the Center for Contemporary Art Yakimanka opened the first in Moscow (and Russia), gallery "School". In 1998-2008 headed the Photo Service of Publishing House "Bill". Since 2008, co-owner photo gallery "Pobeda" (territory of the CSR "winery"). In 2010 at the Winery opened a gallery "Meglinskaya. She teaches the course "photo-editing" in the School of Alexander Rodchenko in Moscow.

Michael Buster - a graphic artist and designer. Members of the creative underground of the 1980's. Holder of shares (performance "Singing lizirginy in the Moscow Circus, 1992) and music festivals. Author of a series of anthropological and art history articles on underground. Owner and curator of subcultural archive kompost.ru. Curator and organizer of exhibitions "The Last Romantic Soviet Union" (Zverev Center, 2006), "Green Street Hooligans 80" (Arena, 2009), «Street style - 80" (REC, 2010). The author is the originator album "Green Street Hooligans 1980».

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