Video: An exhibition of alternative fashion of the 80s-90s was opened in St. Petersburg
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
More than 100 photographs, which are exhibited in the loft project "Etazhi" in St. Petersburg, demonstrate the history of the fashionable alternative movement, which originated in the mid-80s of the last century at the intersection of club culture and the rock scene.
Creative collaboration of representatives of a wide variety of subcultures - from avant-garde photographers and artists, participants in rock, punk and newwave movements has given rise to a unique phenomenon of individual fashion performances and alternative fashion in general.
Mikhail Baster, a member of the creative underground of the 80s, graphic artist, designer and curator of the exhibition, said that the material presented at the exhibition is unique because it sounded much stronger abroad than at home. “In 1988, the term“alternative fashion”sounded for the first time, but when composing the exposition, we limited ourselves to 1995, since it was at this moment that Russian fashion weeks began, and this is a completely different direction,” says Buster. According to him, many of the futuristic ideas presented in these photos at that time are in trend again today - the same elements of uniforms, the same vintage, and so on. For young designers, the motive remains the same at that time and today - when everything has been tried and everything is tired, it is necessary to offer something different.
Buster said that in the 80s and at the very beginning of the post-Soviet period, there was a creative layer in Russia, which later became the basis for the future fashion industry.
The current exhibition features many high-profile names that have emerged from underground photography and fashion. From the works that were created by Gosha Ostretsov, Katya Filippova, Alexander Petlyura, Katya Ryzhikova, Katya Mikulskaya-Mosina, Andrey Bartenev, Irene Burmistrova, the duet La Re and Bruno Birmanis, one can trace the stages of development of this direction.
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