How many years has Vasilyev been leading the fashionable sentence? The secret personal life of fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev: wife, children, sexual orientation
Alexander Vasiliev was born in Moscow into an intelligent theatrical family: his mother is an actress, his father is a national artist. So, from childhood, the future luminary of Russian culture grew up in an atmosphere of art and creativity. This is how the fashion historian himself recalls his childhood: “I am the son famous artist and actresses, my grandfathers and great-grandfathers were educated and cultured people. I grew up among books theatrical productions, painting - it educates, lays the core of future knowledge that you can receive.”
Alexander’s childhood was spent in the atmosphere of the theater, which immediately fascinated him: as a form of entertainment, the boy sewed costumes for dolls, and then scenery in which he staged performances, according to his recollections, starting from the age of 12. Which led naturally to the fact that after school, Alexander entered the production department of the Moscow Art Theater School, and after graduation he began working as a costume designer at the theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
It would seem that everything developed naturally. However, the boy’s subtle and vulnerable soul wanted more and better. As Alexander later said, while still a schoolboy, he promised himself that if a revolution did not happen in Russia in the 1980s, he would definitely leave the country. He kept his word and moved to Paris in the 1980s, marrying a French woman.
Few people know, but at first the young fashion designer had a hard time in the fashion capital. My husband’s wife refused to support him, and he didn’t want to get a job as a Russian language teacher. Therefore, he soon fell into wild poverty: future star I had to sing Russian songs on the streets in order to somehow feed myself. Even a chair had to be dug up from a landfill to have something to sit on. Soon, however, life began to improve: Vasiliev began to receive orders for decorating various French theaters. In addition, he continued to actively educate himself: he graduated from the department of interior design of large palaces at the Louvre School, and also constantly read books about fashion.
In 1994, Vasiliev compiled his lecture program, which received the approval of specialists. And life gained certainty: having translated his lectures into four languages, Alexander Vasiliev began giving them at universities and colleges in all corners of the world, which he still does with success.
At the same time, having gained success as a designer with a refined taste, the Russian fashion guru became in demand as a decorator in various French theaters and festivals, such as Ronde Pointe on the Champs-Elysees, Bastille Opera Studio, Lucerner, Cartoucherie, Avignon Festival, Bale du Nord, Young Ballet of France and the Royal Opera of Versailles.
Well, in the 2000s, with all this professional baggage, fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev already returned to his homeland and settled here with authority.
In 2000, he opened the festival “Volga Region Seasons of Alexander Vasiliev” in Samara.
In 2002, he began working as a presenter on the Culture channel; in 2003 he opened the design studio “Alexander Vasiliev Interiors” in Moscow, and in 2005 he opened a visiting fashion school, within which he began to take his students to cultural capitals peace. In addition, during these years, Alexander Vasiliev collaborated as a decorator with several Russian theaters, and also became famous as a collector - he is the owner of the world's largest collection of costumes from the Russian period.
The year 2009 can be considered a turning point in the fate of Alexander Vasiliev. This year he was invited to work as the host of the “Fashionable Sentence” program on Channel One. And if before this time Vasilyev could be called popular in narrow circles, now he has gained nationwide popularity. So to speak, it brings culture and beauty to the broad masses. True, when performed by Alexander, they - culture and beauty - do not always turn out to be kind: Alexander often does not hesitate to teach, reprimand and even humiliate poor middle-aged Russian women who are lucky enough to become the heroines of the program, like schoolgirls. But what can you do: the show is like that - it imposes its own conditions and rules.
But, of course, it gives privileges: since 2013, Alexander Vasiliev has been the head of the Moscow Fashion Academy at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting “Ostankino”.
As for the personal life of the TV star, he prefers to hide it from prying eyes, declaring, however, that in his life there are several beautiful women, since polygamy is in the nature of men.
Data
- Alexander Vasiliev considers it his achievement that there are fewer perennial blondes in Russia, bare bellies and rhinestone-studded jeans have gone out of fashion.
- Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev speaks seven languages fluently, and has traveled around the world three times, because he sincerely believes that it is unthinkable for a person to be locked within certain boundaries - there is too much to do.
- Vasiliev is the owner of one of the largest private collections of costumes from the Russian period. The collection is exhibited in Australia, Europe, Asia, and America. The collection has been growing for 30 years and consists of more than 15 thousand exhibits from the 17th century to the present. Among the exhibits are haute couture masterpieces created by fashion houses: Worth, Doucet, Drecoll, Lanvin, Chanel, Lucien Lelong, Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Balmain, Carven, Givenchy, Valentino, YSL, Carden, Courege, Paco Rabanne, Gaultier and others. Some of the costumes presented in the collection in the past belonged to famous women of her time: Princess Maria Shcherbatova, Baroness Galina Delvig, Countess Jacqueline de Bogourdon, Countess Olga von Kreutz. Many copies were donated from wardrobes famous women— Maya Plisetskaya, Natalya Fateeva, Alla Demidova, Klara Luchko, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Lyudmila Zykina, Natalya Durova, Lyudmila Gurchenko and others.
Awards
Medal of S. P. Diaghilev for the promotion of Russian art
V. Nijinsky Medal
Order "Patron"
Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts
Tobab Award in Turkey
2011 - People's Recognition Award
2011 - honorary member Russian Academy arts
2011 - established his award “Lilies of Alexander Vasiliev”
Movies
Books
Beauty in Exile (1998)
Russian fashion. 150 years in photographs (2004)
European fashion from the collection of A. Vasiliev (2006)
Series of book-postcards “Carte Postale”:
Carte Postale. Issue 1. Russian beauties
Carte Postale. Issue 2. Costumes of Diaghilev’s “Russian Seasons”
Carte Postale. Issue 3. Costumes of the Russian Imperial House
Carte Postale. Issue 4. Stars of the world silent cinema
Carte Postale. Issue 5. Fashion and travel
Carte Postale. Issue 6. Beach fashion
Carte Postale. Issue 7. Wedding fashion
Carte Postale. Issue 8. Russian beauties-2
Carte Postale. Issue 9. Christmas fashion
Carte Postale. Issue 10. Children's masquerade
Carte Postale. Issue 11. Russian dandies
Carte Postale. Issue 12. Stars of the Stalin era
Carte Postale. Issue 13. Our pets
Carte Postale. Issue 14. Christian Dior
I'm in fashion today... (2008)
Sketches about fashion and style (M.: ANF, 2007)
The Destiny of Fashion (M.: ANF, 2009)
Little Ballerina: Confession of a Russian Emigrant (M.: ANF, 2010; co-authored with Ksenia Tripolitova)
Russian Hollywood (2010)
Paris-Moscow: long return (2013)
Albums
Alexander Vasiliev knows everything about fashion and even more. He is a fashion presenter television program, author of nearly three dozen books on fashion and lectures on how to dress.
As a child, Alexander vacationed in Lithuania every summer with his mother’s relatives. His mother's family spoke Polish, so he knew this language from an early age. Their way of life was very strict. Ate only in certain time and according to all the rules, the servants served the table with a fork and knife. The child was not allowed any liberties in the family. However, all this was useful to Alexander in later life when he lived in Paris. In France, manners, routine and strictness in everything are valued.
Alexander Vasiliev’s mother belonged to a Polish noble family, and some of her relatives lived in Belopanskaya Poland, as it was then called, and now this is the territory of Lithuania. It was there that Alexander rested in the summer.
His mother served as an actress in children's theater and was involved in performances almost every evening. Dad was the chief designer of the Mossovet Theater and created costumes for such stars as Lyubov Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya and Rostislav Plyatt. While his parents worked, a nanny looked after Alexander.
Already at the age of 8, he began acting on Central Television. Alexander was the main presenter of the children's program "Theater of Bells", and then together with Nadezhda Rumyantseva he hosted "Alarm Clock".
He studied poorly, but this was largely due to envy because of his popularity in such a early years. In the 9th grade, for these reasons, Vasilyev was transferred to a school for working youth, where he was allowed not to wear a uniform and to smoke right in the classroom. It was in this institution that all the golden youth of that era studied.
Then Alexander entered the Moscow Art Theater School to become a production designer. It was there that he found his calling. Unique costumes for many famous performances were kept in the costume department of the Studio School. A love for the history of costume is what Alexander acquired there. The result of it all was very beautiful graduate work Vasilyeva “Vivat, queen, vivat!”
Oddly enough, he was also driven to leave for the West by love, but for a girl from a parallel class at a school for working youth. She left for France, and Alexander could not let her go. To do this, he entered into a fictitious marriage with a French woman, Anna, who was meanwhile studying at Moscow State University, and immediately went after his beloved. But there he was disappointed; she had already found someone else. However, the choice was made and Alexander became a defector.
Despite everything, he is still grateful to that girl and even supports her a good relationship, because otherwise Alexander Vasiliev would not have become what he is now.
1959
- I’m in the arms of my dad, the artist Alexander Pavlovich Vasiliev. The photo was taken on Frunzenskaya Embankment in Moscow in the courtyard of house No. 40, where we lived at that time.
1961
- This is me and my mother. The photo was taken in Vilnius (Lithuania), where they lived mom's parents, and I came there for the summer. Grandmother lived in an old house, where in the attic there were chests with all sorts of utensils and household items. I enjoyed rummaging through them. The trophies obtained from the attic became the first exhibits in my collection of antiques and clothing.
1985
- After the Moscow Art Theater School, I married a Frenchwoman, Anne Bodimon, and moved to France. Here I am in the attic we rented. Three years later we divorced, but we are still friends. I lived in Paris for almost 25 years, now I come there to my apartment. He received it from the then mayor of the city, Jacques Chirac. Here is how it was. I worked as a decorator in an antiques store in the Louvre. Chirac came to the store’s 15th anniversary and celebrated my work. Later I wrote to him about how cramped I was in storing antiques. And they gave me an apartment overlooking the Seine.
1991
- This photograph was published on the cover of a weekly magazine in Hong Kong. At that time I was teaching fashion history at the Academy of Arts there. And I was invited to participate in a photo shoot. As you can see, it turned out well. I still have a very good relationship with the Hong Kong Academy of Arts. I became a professor there, and a month ago I received the title of honorary corresponding member. I was handed a purple robe and a beret.
1994
- With Countess Carmen Apraksina (she is a descendant of an ancient noble family. - Approx. “Antennas”), my good friend, in the Pavlovsk Palace near St. Petersburg. The wedding of her daughter, Countess Mira Apraksina, and architect Nikolai Druzin took place there. We met Mira in Brussels. I talked a lot in Europe with Russian emigrants, and from their stories I reconstructed the history of our fashion in emigration.
1997
- Together with the great couturier Pierre Cardin after the performance of Maya Plisetskaya in Paris. We are both friends with our wonderful ballerina and often went to her performances. Pierre Cardin made many outfits for Plisetskaya, which Maya Mikhailovna donated to my collection.
1998
- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Zaitsev at my home in Paris. We have known each other for more than forty years. It was Zaitsev who brought me to Fashion Sentence. Despite all the talk about our rivalry, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich and I are good friends. He often visits me in Paris, we have lunch together. I am terribly happy that the whole country can admire him in “Fashionable Verdict” and see his intellect. He runs the program in a very kind way.
year 2001
- My mother, actress and teacher Tatyana Ilyinichna Vasilyeva, née Gulevich. She is a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School and played in the Central Children's Theater for 25 years. My mother always supported my passion for antiques. I remember I studied at English school in the center of Moscow and old mansions were demolished there. And many residents, when moving, got rid of old things: dishes, dresses, umbrellas, hats... And I found them and restored them together with my mother.
2002
- Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya came to me in Lithuania with a French television group that was working on a film-autobiography of Plisetskaya. Part of the filming took place in my house near Vilnius.
2003
- Valentin Yudashkin and I are united by a love of ancient costume. And he, like me, wants to create a fashion museum in Russia, he loves antiques. This is us in my studio “Interiors of Alexander Vasiliev”.
year 2009
- On one of the first recordings of “Fashionable Sentence”. I felt some excitement. Although on TV since 1967. Hosted the children's program “Bell Theatre”, “Alarm Clock” with Nadezhda Rumyantseva. “Fashionable Verdict” gave me the opportunity to share knowledge on the history of fashion with the viewer. I am also convinced that the country is judged and That's why how women dress in it. Vyacheslav Zaitsev and I instill taste in people.
Alexander Vasiliev, fashion historian, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, whom Russian public I found out thanks to the popular TV show “Fashionable Sentence,” which is known far beyond the country’s borders. This outstanding art critic, collector and theater decorator works all over the world: he collaborates with various theaters, exhibits exhibitions of his collections of historical costume, and also lectures on the history of fashion in several languages.
Alexander Vasiliev was born in Moscow in exclusively intelligent family. His father, Alexander Pavlovich Vasiliev, was a famous theater artist and fashion designer, winner of the Grand Prix at the 1959 Brussels World Exhibition.
For my creative heritage Alexander Vasiliev Sr. was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia, in different years he headed the Soviet Center International Association set designers and theater technologists, department of theater and film artists in the Moscow Union of Artists, was secretary of the board of the Union of Artists in the USSR. His works are in State Museum them. Pushkin, as well as in museums of such famous theaters as the Theater named after. Chekhov and the Bolshoi Theater.
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Alexander Alexandrovich's mother, Tatyana Ilyinichna Vasilyeva-Gurevich, played in the theater and also taught stage speech and acting in universities such as the Moscow Art Theater School and the Choreographic School Bolshoi Theater. Thus, the boy was surrounded by an atmosphere of art from childhood. It was his early immersion in the world of beauty that gave him the first impetus for development, the fashion historian claims in his numerous interviews.
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Since childhood, Sasha was extremely passionate about the history of fashion and often helped his father in sewing theater scenery. The future maestro created his first theatrical costumes and sets when he was only five years old. At the same time, Sasha took part in the filming of Soviet children's television programs "Alarm Clock" and "Bell Theatre". Already at the age of twelve, Alexander Vasiliev acted as a decorative artist for the complete decoration theatrical performance for children "The Wizard of the Emerald City".
Naturally, with such an early start creative activity, noticeable talent and comprehensive support from loved ones regarding the choice future profession didn't stand. After graduating from school, the young man entered the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio in the production department, which he graduated in 1980, and began working at the famous Theater on Malaya Bronnaya as a costume designer.
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At the same time in life young Alexander Vasiliev's first love comes. However, circumstances turned out to be such that the mother of the girl Masha, for whom the artist had romantic feelings, married a French citizen and moved to Paris with her daughter. This became for young man a big blow, but the decorator did not reconcile himself and began to look for opportunities to get to France, which was practically impossible in the USSR. Vasiliev had to enter into a fictitious marriage in order to leave the country. Then the future maestro did not suspect that his absence would drag on for many years.
Life in France
When the exit visa was about to expire, Vasiliev learned that, firstly, upon returning to his homeland, he would be sent to serve in Afghanistan, and, secondly, a ban on leaving the USSR would come into force for fifteen years. Both of these facts led to the fact that the young art critic became a “defector”, having issued himself a residence permit in France.
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In Paris, thanks to his talent and hard work, Alexander Vasiliev quickly found a job in his specialty. He began to receive orders for the design of various performances in French theaters, as well as street festivals. At the same time, the artist constantly improved his skills: in addition to self-study, he graduated from the Louvre School with a degree in palace interior design.
With time achievement list The decorator's portfolio included such famous clients as the Ronde Pointe Theater, the Royal Opera of Versailles, the Studio de Bastille Opera, Lucerner, the Avignon Festival and many others.
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At the same time, Alexander Vasiliev began his teaching activities: he taught fashion history to Russian students theater school and the famous Parisian fashion school Esmod, which is the first in the world educational institution similar orientation (founded in 1841).
Subsequently, the geography of Vasiliev’s works expanded noticeably, since the Russian decorator was considered exotic in Europe. Alexander began to receive offers of cooperation from Great Britain: the National London Theater and the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow became interested in the talented decorator; orders came from all over the world - Iceland, Turkey and Japan.
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Thanks to long-term contracts in France, Spain and Italy, the artist had the opportunity to master the languages of these countries, which subsequently gave him the opportunity to lecture in Spanish, Italian and French. The fashion historian began his visiting lecture practice in 1994, having received French citizenship by that time.
"Fashionable verdict"
Returning to Russia after the collapse of the USSR, Alexander Vasiliev continued his educational activities in the field of design, fashion and aesthetics. In 2000, under his patronage, the first Samara fashion festival “Volga Region Seasons of Alexander Vasiliev” took place. Two years later, the fashion historian began hosting his own program “Blow of the Century” on the “Culture” TV channel.
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In addition to private lectures, Alexander Vasiliev teaches fashion history at Moscow State University, is the founder of his own design studio, as well as a traveling fashion school that organizes educational trips to the cultural capitals of the world. IN different time the decorator gave a course of lectures at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting "Ostankino", at the style school "MODA.RU". Also, thanks to his patronage, the first Museum of the History of Fashion of the Twentieth Century was opened in Chelyabinsk in the history of Russia.
Since 2009, Vasiliev has replaced him as the host of fashion court meetings in the popular TV show “Fashionable Sentence”, in which the maestro works together with, and since 2012 he has been hosting a series of original programs “Portraits of Great Fashionistas” on radio “Mayak”.
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In 2011, Vasiliev established his own version of the “Michelin star”: for the high aesthetics of interior design, the maestro awards the laureates a ceramic lily. Each award is handmade and has its own personal number to determine authenticity. "Lilies of Alexander Vasiliev" are awarded primarily for the design of public interiors open to the public - various cafes, train stations, public galleries.
Books
Of course, such a rich experience in the history of fashion was worth passing on to descendants. Alexander Vasiliev's pen includes more than three dozen books, which are mainly devoted to history domestic fashion and the style of Russian emigrants of the early twentieth century. His work "Beauty in Exile" was published six times.
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The maestro has plans to publish the memoirs of Tatyana Leskova, the great-granddaughter of the famous Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, prima ballerina of the Russian ballet and ballet director in Brazil. The biography of Alexander Vasiliev, as he himself claims, is slowly being compiled from his diary entries, which he has diligently kept for many decades.
Collections
His passion for fashion history made Alexander Vasiliev an avid collector. Yes, him private collection historical costume is one of the largest in the world. The most valuable exhibits are masterpieces that belonged to Princess Maria Shcherbatova, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, countesses Jacqueline de Beaugourdon and Olga von Kreutz. Russian theater and film actresses willingly provide their costumes to replenish this collection.
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Since the main purpose of the collection is not so much ownership as educational activity, Alexander Vasiliev forms on its basis thematic exhibitions, which are regularly held in Russia and abroad. IN future plans fashion historian - creation permanent exhibition, which will become Russia's first museum of historical costume.
Personal life
The maestro was married in a fictitious marriage, which he, being a graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, entered into to obtain a French visa. This marriage lasted five years, but then the couple separated.
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After this, Alexander Vasiliev’s personal life was connected only with art. As the maestro sometimes jokes, he married fashion and is happy in such a marriage.
Bibliography
- Beauty in exile
- Russian fashion. 150 years in photographs
- European fashion. Three centuries. From the collection of A. Vasiliev
- Series of book-postcards “Carte Postale”
- I'm in fashion today...
- Sketches about fashion and style
- The fate of fashion
- Little ballerina: Confession of a Russian emigrant
- Russian Hollywood
- Children's fashion of the Russian Empire
- Paris–Moscow: a long return
IN Lately Channel One announces surprise after surprise to its viewers. The other day it became known that the long-loved program “ProjectorParisHilton” was returning to the airwaves. But yesterday last news“The First” pleased, and perhaps puzzled, fans of the “Fashionable Sentence” program.
The place of fashion judge Alexander Vasiliev will be taken by the “king of performances” Andrey Bartenev.
The place of Alexander Vasiliev will be taken by the flamboyant Andrey Bartenev
Over the almost ten-year existence of the program, a whole galaxy of bright personalities have changed who help women find their own style in clothing. The first fashion judge was the famous couturier Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who was succeeded by fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev.
The co-hosts, along with fashion expert Evelina Khromchenko, were Arina Sharapova, Larisa Verbitskaya and even singer Anzhelika Varum. For the last few years, singer Nadezhda Babkina has been successfully coping with the difficult position of lawyer for the women who came to the project.
The new replacement in the “Fashionable Sentence” team caused a mixed reaction among viewers. Some are happy that Vasiliev will finally leave the project. The fact is that many consider him too mannered, arrogant and out of touch real life. Viewers are offended by his undisguised condescending attitude towards the participants and expressions in the style of “collective farm”, “village” and the like.
But whether the arrival of Andrei Bartenev in the project will be able to increase interest in the program is still unknown.
The fact that new emotions and outright shocking will be added is obvious! But will the new fashionable judge cope with his main task - to help the ordinary Russian woman become more confident and find your own style in clothing? After all, the program “Fashionable Sentence” is intended mainly for housewives. It is unlikely that they will consider the phantasmagoric ideas of Andrei Bartenev acceptable for everyday life.
In any case, this experiment should be bright and unusual. The first release of the program with a new host is expected on March 1. The channel's management does not name the reasons for Alexander Vasiliev's resignation from the position of fashion judge.
Meanwhile, Vasiliev himself, when asked by journalists, said that he had taken an indefinite leave because he had accumulated many unrealized projects.
On December 8, 1958, a unique man, a true patriot of his great homeland, Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, was born. Now he is called: a fashion historian, one of the best art historians, a talented writer and a brilliant TV presenter. But first of all, on that memorable winter day, the country received a great patriot and connoisseur of Russian traditions.The youth of Alexander Vasiliev
Alexander Alexandrovich's whole life was devoted to culture. Born into an intelligent family, where his father, Alexander Pavlovich, worked as the chief artist of the Moscow Theater, and his Mother, Tatyana Ilyinichna, fascinated the viewer with her play of dramatic roles on stage. Alexander simply had no chance to escape his fate.Your first costumes for puppet show he developed at just five years of age. And at the age of 7 he was already delighting young viewers in the television programs “Bell Theater” and “Alarm Clock”. For a rather serious production of “The Wizard emerald city", the boy created the costumes and scenery when he was only 12. So it is not surprising that in 1974, as soon as he turned 16 years old, and the law allowed Sasha to draw up a work book, he was immediately hired as a prop maker in the theater “Sovremennik” where he worked before the Moscow Art Theater. Vasiliev graduated from studio school at the age of 22 and went to work as a costume designer at “On Malaya Bronnaya”.
The role of women in the life of Alexander Vasiliev
It is not known how the fate of the great art critic would have developed further if not for his whirlwind romance with Masha Lavrova. The young hot blood always wanted to be close to the woman he loved. But her mother married a Frenchman, taking her daughter to another country.- “You should come to me there - to this most beautiful city on earth!” Alexander Alexandrovich still remembers these words. And he promised to come. The 21-year-old guy then had no idea how, but firmly believed that he would succeed.
The opportunity presented itself two years later. Came to Moscow State University to improve the Russian language french girl, Anna. It became Vasiliev’s passport to Europe.
In 1982, young people sealed their relationship with marriage and left the country of the Soviets.
Alexander Vasiliev in Paris
Paris greets the young man with its contrasts, dark alleys give way to the blooming Champs Elysees. Night city simply sparkled from the lightboxes, outlandish to the Russian people. In Paris there was choice, there was freedom. Even the ordinary restaurant menu was amazing. The newlyweds lived in the 14th arrondissement in a small apartment on the fifth floor.That building didn't even have an elevator. After the 100-meter Moscow chorus then. But freedom was more expensive. Freedom and that beloved girl to whom he promised two years ago to change his life.
Then there was a trip to a villa in Arcachon, a paradise on the coast Atlantic Ocean. Wonderful beaches and simply amazing views could not leave you indifferent creative person. Genius for a long time spends near the sea.
The only thing that caused protest was the uniformity and monotony. Dinner at the same time, the same dishes, the same orders. And everything alive in Alexander was playing, demanding reforms. The first thing the artist changed was the old bedspread on the marital bed. But he approached even such a small thing with all his talent and creativity. Everyone appreciated his choice.
Don't trust your friends - Alexander Vasiliev.
Three months flew by quickly, the visa expired, Sasha submits documents to extend his stay in France, and his request is granted. Now it sounds commonplace, but at the time it was fantastic. Only many years later did Vasiliev learn that this was facilitated by the KGB itself, which had its own plans for the Russian decorator.
First steps in Europe
The idleness is over. The artist enters the school at the Louvre, and upon graduation, enters the graduate school of the Sorbonne theater department. Already in the fall of 1982, Vasiliev was invited to decorate the play “Pope Joanna,” which took place at the Poitiers and Cartoucherie theaters. Then there were the sets and costumes for the plays “Galleries of the Palace”, “Triumph of Love”, “Galleries of the Palace”... He got to work with such stars as: Valerie Dreville, Recep Mitrovica, Michel Witold.Unfortunately, the wife did not share her husband’s aspirations, and after he refused to be a Russian language teacher at the local lyceum, they separated.
Confession of Alexander Vasiliev
As it turned out, Vasiliev did not take the risk in vain. His talent did not go unnoticed. Already in 1985 he was invited to Reykjavik. Where he prepares costumes for the productions “Plato” and “Wild Honey”. The performances were sold out, and the artist was recognized.Also in 1985, Vasiliev began working for ballet performances. Which, a year later, led him to Galina and Valery Panov, who gave him the position of artistic director at the Royal Flemish Ballet. The genius is literally in great demand, he is literally bombarded with offers from the leading theaters of all European countries.
Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev - about school uniforms
In 1989, Alexander Alexandrovich was invited to Japan. Where Masako Oya invited him to design Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker”.
Vasiliev also made his mark in cinema. Working closely with Roberto Enrico, he creates costumes for the film “And the War Passes.” And also for the films: “My Friend is a Traitor” by Jose Giovani and “Manjklu” by Moshe Mizrahi.
Vasiliev - teacher
This man’s ability to work is simply amazing; while he performs a colossal amount of work, he finds time to teach. Lectures and seminars in higher schools arts in London, Paris, Beijing, Brussels, Nice...and this is only an incomplete list of Vasiliev’s achievements as a teacher. In 1994, he presented his lecture program in 4 languages. This work is read all over the world.Alexander Vasiliev today
2003 And again Alexander surprises the world. Having opened in Moscow, yes, in his hometown, design studio "Interiors of Alexander Vasiliev", he amazes viewers with an unusually rich collection of antique clothes. Antique costumes purchased at various auctions are truly unique. And the collector will not part with them for any money. Although they offered quite a lot of money just for renting things.
In 2009, famous fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev left Channel One for health reasons.
Alexander Vasiliev is invited to take the place of the host of the popular TV show “Fashionable Sentence”. In the same 2009, he took the post of head of the Moscow Fashion Academy, which was organized at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting "Ostankino".
Now the great fashion historian, despite all the years he has lived, is still 18. He is full of energy and initiative. He writes books, gives lectures, and is the host of many television and radio programs.