Depesha

Audacity is the fuel for the launch into fashionsphere. The team behind Sorry, I’m Not revved up for its second outing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia on a full tank. Lead by the young designer Nikita Moiseenko (who admittedly…

Designer Oleg Ovsiyov is no puppet. He has steered brand Viva Vox through a decade of radical taste shifts in the volatile Moscow fashion scene. The rouble goes up, the glitter rains down. The oil stocks go south and the fur trade freezes up…

Artem Shumov refers to himself as an aspiring designer and the disarming modesty is refreshing. Nothing about him or his spring-summer 2017 collection showcased at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia appears expectantly, well, Russian: no glitz…

Russia is full of faithful believers in many grandiose ideas, but tears ain’t one of ’em. “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” was the manifesto title of the 1980 Oscar-winning Soviet film. Crying gets you nowhere in this land of grit, hot blood and cold sweat.

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is set to premiere the exhibition Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective opening March 12 until May 30 at…