Video: The main thing is that the suit fits: How the iconic outfits of the famous heroines of Soviet cinema appeared
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In films that today are called classics of Soviet cinema, often not only heroes, but even their outfits became legendary: they were considered the standard of style and role model. Fashion was not dictated by designers and fashion models at the shows, but cult characters from the films "Carnival Night", "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession", "Irony of Fate", "Office Romance", etc. The designers and costume designers had to work hard to create these outfits. behind the scenes.
Lyudmila Gurchenko was a style icon both in life and on the screen. Each of her appearances was spectacular and memorable. Already in her debut film "Carnival Night" she made all the fashionistas of the 1950s gasp. - they came to cinemas with notebooks to sketch the dresses of Lenochka Krylova. Young Gurchenko was so stunning in a black dress that rumors appeared: Christian Dior created her outfits. In fact, they were all sewn in Moscow, although the “new look” style was really Dior's: a fluffy skirt and a narrow waist in the West became fashion trends back in the 1940s. The production designer of the picture was Konstantin Efimov, who had previously worked on the films Volga-Volga and Spring; a whole team of costume designers worked with him to create the image of Lenochka Krylova.
After this film, the myth was born that Gurchenko's waist was 47 cm, but such an illusion was created by a belt and a very fluffy skirt. The dressmaker of the actress claims that in fact it was 58 cm, although such parameters are impressive! Unfortunately, the famous dress has not survived, but many of Gurchenko's other outfits were included in the collection of fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev.
One of the most stylish heroines of Soviet cinema was Zinochka from the comedy Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession. This role was played by the actress Natalya Selezneva, who looked so impressive that her outfits were paid no less attention than herself. And this happened due to the fact that dresses for her heroine were created by the beginning at that time fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev. The most daring outfit was a red shirt dress worn over a top. As a result, Zinochka's image made a splash: women of fashion sewed dresses with geometric prints and white trouser suits, and Roman sandals and a cane umbrella stuck in fashion until the mid-1980s.
In the second part of the film "Office Romance" even "dirty" had to look stylish. Ludicrous outfits for Lyudmila Prokofievna were invented by the whole team headed by Alisa Freindlich, but Vyacheslav Zaitsev helped her transform. They say it was he who created the dress for her final release. The actress admitted: "". Plaid outfit with oversized buttons became a fashion trend in the 1970s.
A lot of controversy to this day is caused by the "festive" dress of Nadia Sheveleva in the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!". To modern women of fashion, it does not seem to be either smart or stylish, but at the end of the 1970s. For a simple teacher, Nadia looked ultra-fashionable and even European: Yves Saint Laurent made the safari style a fashionable trend in the West. After the release of the film, women were looking for patterns to sew a dress, "like Nadia's", from crepe or fine wool, wore chains "bamboo stalk" and did the same hairstyles with ends twisted outward. Barbara Brylska herself did not consider this outfit original and did not want to appear on the screens in it. Moreover, before her, another actress had already starred in this dress in the film "Dangerous Turn", however, then it did not cause such a resonance. The author of the outfit was the costume designer Olga Kruchinina. For Nadia Sheveleva, she shortened the dress, made a belt from the hem cut and changed the buttons.
But the voluminous Kubanka hat made of a red fox has become a fashion trend for many years, just like the haystack hat made of a silver fox, which was on the heroine of Valentina Talyzina. Similar styles can be found even today.
Zhanna Melkonyan worked on costumes for the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears". Many difficulties arose when it was required to get one or another material that was not on the shelves. So, the nylon blouse for the heroine Alentova was sewn from the material intended for school collars: "".
Zhanna Melkonyan told: "".
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