Butterfly clips, crimped hair, weird dressing styles, multi-colored jewelry and flashy makeup were the hallmarks of the 90s. But as it turned out, not only teenagers from the yard, but also star beauties became the "victims" of the newly-minted trends: from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon, who also desperately painted lips and pulled out a thin line of eyebrows, so as not to lag behind the trend
Throughout history, fashion and art have gone hand in hand to create a great combination. Many fashion designers have borrowed ideas from artistic movements for their collections, which has allowed fashion to be interpreted as an art form that mainly serves to express ideas and visions. Influenced by this, some internationally renowned fashion designers have created outstanding collections based on the artistic movements of the 20th century
Post-war fashion is unique in that it was created on two mutually exclusive factors. The first is the desire of women to start living a normal life as soon as possible, the second is the lack of any resource for this. Women, perhaps, were saved only by the fact that during the war years they managed to get used not only to save money and survive in conditions of acute shortage, but also to implement the saying that "the need for invention is cunning"
The coronavirus pandemic has caused a huge number of people to experience a unique experience of self-isolation. Someone goes through it easily, but for someone such a test seems very difficult. I would like to remember that at all times in different countries there were companions for whom seclusion was a way of serving their faith and all people. In the Middle Ages, there were also many women who subjected themselves to real voluntary isolation from society
In the USSR, they listened to more foreign melodies than many remember now. Some penetrated within the framework of the official friendship of peoples, others with foreign films (passed a strict selection committee), others imported from business trips on records and cassettes and copied from each other
The influence of films and TV shows on our lives can hardly be overestimated. Today they have become not only entertainment, but also a way of learning about the world, an opportunity to study history (if, of course, a documentary series) or get acquainted with new fashion trends. However, analysts say: film projects themselves have a very effective influence on fashion, forcing the viewer to pay attention to certain things, hobbies and problems. This phenomenon has even been called the "Netflix effect", after the name of the provider
French Marianne was born in 1792, but since then she has neither grown old nor outdated. And if for the first century and a half simple women gave her their appearance, then the time of stars came: the most beautiful women in the country, or at least the most popular among the people. And now Marianne is the one with whom the French identify their country
The twentieth century has greatly changed Russian cuisine. The dishes changed, the stove changed the stove, the constantly available set of ingredients changed. And in the name of friendship of peoples, people were taught to try the dishes of other peoples - and many of them were borrowed in an adapted form. Perhaps a modern Russian would be very surprised to see what his ancestors ate
Isabelle Adjani would not have been so popular and loved by viewers all over the world if her life and career did not consist of contradictions - this is exactly what, and even talent and hard work often open the way to success and recognition. It is for the understatement, mystery, ambiguity that French actresses, including Ajani, are so valued, and is it really important that she, strictly speaking, is not a Frenchwoman?
All these beautiful French aristocrats, whose images keep pictures and reproduce the cinema screens, sometimes simply fascinate with their complex hairstyles. One would think that the women of fashion of those times set themselves one goal - to surpass each other in the showiness and splendor of their images. But no, and in the 17th century, hair was cut and styled according to fashion trends, and each of the hairstyles - whether Anna of Austria, another queen or the king's favorite - bore its own name
Children's poets seem to be something like their poems: simple, bright people with an easy, measured, maybe bright and cheerful fate. And only as adults, readers understand that there is little frivolous in the lives of the poets of their childhood. Many destinies can be called tragic
Various electronic devices have become an integral part of the life of a modern person: computers, telephones, e-books. Nevertheless, print publications are still in great demand - their sales remain the highest. The Forbes edition, summing up the book results of 2020, identified the works of fiction that were the leaders in sales in the past year. This took into account the sales of paper, electronic and audio books
One of the most prestigious awards in the field of literature is the British Booker, which is a kind of quality mark. For the first time this prize was awarded in 1969, since then several dozen authors writing in English and those whose works have been translated into English have become its owners. Our today's review presents the best books awarded by Booker over the years
Winter evenings seem to be made to indulge in your favorite pastimes. And reading in this row is far from being in the last place. The ironic detective story has become one of the most popular literary genres in recent decades. Our today's selection contains those works in which a famously twisted plot is adjacent to sparkling humor
The year 2020 completely changed the usual course of life, but at the same time it allowed us to rethink a lot and taught us to appreciate what we have. Books turned out to be among the permanent values. Readers had the opportunity to travel with the help of books and live the fate of different heroes, immerse themselves in other people's family stories and discover unknown worlds. Our today's roundup features 10 books from the BBC's World Service Ranking of the Best
Detective novels are consistently popular with readers and occupy a leading position in book sales lists. Of course, this applies exclusively to those detectives who captivate the reader with bright heroes, a fascinating plot and maintaining intrigue until the very last page. Our today's review presents the best works of the genre, published in print in the last few years
Dina Rubina is so popular today that she needs no special introduction. Her works are loved and read in different countries, and the circulation of her books, published only in one publishing house "Eksmo", is estimated at ten million. Every story, novel or novel by Dina Rubina deserves special attention, but there are books that simply cannot be passed by. They will be discussed in our today's review
The older generation of TV viewers remembers Nikolai Lukyanovich Dupak for his numerous episodic roles in feature films - "Eternal Call", "Bumbarash", "Intervention", "Forty First" and many others. For theatergoers, he is known as an actor, director and director who directed the famous "Taganka" for more than a quarter of a century. How the legend of Russian cinema and theater lives and looks now - in our publication
Mary Shelley is best known for one of her novels, the first of which she wrote - "Frankenstein" (1819). The book has come a long way towards its popularity. Some people still argue about whether the novel actually belongs to Mary or not. Even now, Frankenstein speaks to us about our fears of scientific achievement, about our difficulties in recognizing our common humanity. Shelley has one nearly forgotten 1826 novel, The Last Man. This book skr
In the Soviet Union, they loved him as their own - everyone, young and old. Both children and adults were read by Gianni Rodari's books, films were made and performances based on his fairy tales - at the very time when he was considered almost an enemy in his homeland. Italy will appreciate Rodari's legacy later, truly appreciate it, with all the warmth that the inhabitants of the Apennines are capable of. But on the territory of the former USSR, this writer, who glorified communist ideals, was not forgotten. Moreover, now it is published constantly, and "Cipolli
Over the past two years, the press has repeatedly raised the topic of the lack of writers and poetesses in the school literature course, despite the fact that the books and poems of many of them are included in the treasury of Russian and world culture. "Culturology" decided to imagine the works of which writers could be included in school anthologies, why and what it would be worth telling about these writers
Some of the books of our childhood read very differently when viewed through the eyes of a modern parent. For example, three series of stories raise big questions: about Dunno, about Buratino and about Ellie in a fairy land. Yes, there are two different books about Pinocchio, and they have different authors, and nevertheless, one story continues the other. But this fact is not at all surprising
As you know, the most famous financial pyramid was organized by the British Lord Treasurer Robert Harley, the first Earl of Oxford, creating the scandalous South Seas Company in 1711. More than a century and a half had to pass for such a pyramid to appear in Russia. True, it had its own characteristics, and unlike the well-known financial scams of the late twentieth century, the creator of the first Russian MMM was never able to get rich
It is known that at one time the popular musician Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature "For the creation of new poetic expressions in the great American song tradition." As it turned out, many famous actors try themselves in the field of literary creativity. True, not all of them manage to achieve success in this field, but real masterpieces emerge from the pen of some. Here they will be discussed in our today's review
If other heroes of classic detective stories - take the same Sherlock Holmes - can be easily entered into modern realities, give the character the opportunity to live a new life in new works, then for some reason this trick does not work with Miss Marple, it exists only in the books of Agatha Christie. for some reason, it is impossible to reproduce such an old detective in the 21st century. And at the same time, the stories of this old maid's investigations have now and then been drawn by readers for generations. Why is the world
Women writers often have to argue that there should be no gender division in literature. The fair sex write really amazing books in different genres, be it detective stories, adventure or melodrama. In our today's review, the most widely read women writers in Russia
Today, the works of Oleg Mokosha are published in various magazines, and his work is compared with the work of Dovlatov, Shukshin and even early Jack London. However, in his native Nizhny Novgorod, the writer was an ordinary modest worker, and probably only the closest people knew that he was writing books. Oleg Makosha learned that he had become a laureate of the literary prize when he received a call from one of the TV channels with a request to comment on his victory
Many great writers drew inspiration from real people when creating their works. In a number of cases, the person who motivated the author is well known - from Beatrice Portinari, who inspired Dante, to F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, who was the prototype of Daisy in The Great Gatsby. But identifying the sources of inspiration for other authors' work was sometimes more difficult. There are a number of cases where the muse has remained a mystery. In some cases, even if a name was specified, it was impossible to ok
It seems that there can be no such dissimilar activities than sports and literature. However, many well-known literary men quite successfully combined writing work with serious hobbies for sports. And they even considered him an integral part of life, played football and boxing, swimming and shooting, played chess and ran marathon distances. In our today's review, famous writers who could not imagine their life without sports
The first teachers undoubtedly play an important role in the life of every person. They not only lay the foundation of knowledge, but also influence the formation of the personality. Today, the child meets the first teacher at school, and in the 19th century, noble families invited tutors and teachers directly home. It was the home teachers who prepared the heroes of our today's review for admission to the gymnasium, taught and educated future classics
He conquered literary America already at the moment when the first issue with Truman Capote's story was published. Later, he was able to conquer the whole world: his "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Murder in cold blood" have long become classics. In life, the American writer was deeply unhappy and at the same time a very ambitious person. He easily won the hearts of the most famous women, while maintaining his unconventional sexual orientation
A treasure chest was recently discovered in Wales. This is one of the largest ancient treasures found with a metal detector. Among the gold and silver coins, archaeologists were expecting a rather creepy find. It was the so-called Memento Mori ring with a skull engraved on it. "Memento Mori" - literally translated from Latin means "remember death." What this strange medieval decoration told scientists, further in the review
Elizabeth Bagaya von Toro is an African princess, in whose fate there were countless trials, but she emerged victorious from all of them, and her life became a symbol of determination. She built a political career as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uganda and survived a relationship with the dictator Idi Amin. A lawyer by profession, she also tried herself in acting and went on the catwalk as a top model
In Japan, a huge, more than a meter in diameter, ceramic vessel was discovered, filled to the brim with medieval coins. Archaeologists have found this state of a certain Japanese samurai in Saitama prefecture near Tokyo. Experts have called this hoard the largest catch of medieval coins ever discovered in the land of the rising sun. According to experts, the vessel and the coins go back six centuries! Whose treasure jug is this, why was it hidden there, and why did no one come back for it?
During archaeological excavations in the ancient Israeli city of Yavne, two teenagers found an old broken jug with 425 pure gold coins! The priceless find has almost a kilogram of weight and is more than a thousand years old. The exact location of the treasure was classified for fear of robbers and looters. What do scientists tell special about this unique treasure?
For many centuries, the Western Wall has been one of the main symbols of faith and hope for hundreds of generations of Jews. This is the most sacred place in Judaism, a place of pilgrimage and prayer. After all, this is the only thing that has survived not even from the Temple itself, but from its fortifications around the Temple Mount. People come here to mourn the shrine destroyed by the Romans. Recently, archaeologists have found a series of mysterious underground chambers full of ancient artifacts near this wall. What was found in these rooms, which, according to estimates
A jug filled to the brim with silver medieval coins was accidentally discovered by workers under the rotten floorboards of an abandoned church. The treasure was hidden more than 300 years ago, during the Civil War, by a blind Polish priest in the Church of the Rosary of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Obisovce (Poland), which is located near Kosice in Slovakia. This church in a tiny village of only three hundred inhabitants has been the center of some very interesting historical events for centuries
Howl, Hiccup, Shrek and other cartoon characters became popular all over the world and gained a lot of fans. We are ready to review our favorite cartoons many times, but sometimes we do not even suspect that these stories can be read in the first place, since for the first time they were invented not by scriptwriters, but by the authors of children's books. True, many of these works are nowhere near as famous as their drawn and moving versions
Numbered among the saints as a noble princess, then recognized as an ordinary person, and two and a half centuries later canonized again - this is how the posthumous fate of the Rostov princess and the Tver princess Anna Kashinskaya, who had to endure tragic losses during her lifetime
The mummified body of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesyamun is on display in the English city of Leeds. The remains are several thousand years old, and this fact alone is fascinating. However, this mummy is interesting primarily because scientists have managed to determine in what voice this long-deceased Egyptian spoke during his lifetime