May 25, 2016 at 19.00 at the Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts will be held the official opening of the exhibition «Russian designers» in the exhibition «LACE parade» in conjunction with the fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev. The exhibition will feature the real art objects of modern lace. «Parading» — defiantly expensive and pompous — this lace appears in the XVIII century, when new, is rapidly gaining popularity kind of arts and crafts is part of the life of royal families, the church clergy and senior military officials. «Parading» — frankly, at the limit of sensuality — in an era of boudoirs and the involvement of art in the world of intimate fashion decadence at the turn of XIX-XX centuries. «Parading» — this sotszakaz young Soviet Union, when the masters of Vologda, Yelets, Ryazan or from the finest yarns weave unimaginable scale five-, six-meter lace panels for national exhibitions, designed to demonstrate the country’s ambitions in space exploration and the construction of «light path». Finally, «the show» — in the context of «haute couture» of the second half of the twentieth century, with the transfer of traditional art of lace on the podium and winning the mass market. Read more