Art vs Fashion, everybody wins

Friday night: to Garage, Moscow’s Centre for Contemporary Culture, aka the hippest art gallery in town, situated in an old bus depot and run by the very beautiful, very cool, and very cosmopolitan Dasha Zhukova. The occasion: the launch of Russian Vogue’s June issue, the Art+Fashion Special. In attendance: the great, the good, and the best-dressed of Russia’s modegentsia (hey, hereabouts they still label people ‘intelligentsia’: it’s about time there was a fashion equivalent.) It was such a stylish occasion even the paparazzi were dolled up – cf. our young celebrity smudger, below, in her pink satin messenger-of-the-gods style ballet flats.

Below: first points go to the Artists, in this case Sasha and her fabulous padded peep-toe ‘Tron Legacy’ bootees from Opening Ceremony. (Her oj pedi echoed the amazing orange dress she was wearing.)

More sunny D: Polina’s fluorescent orange sandals, with their thick velco-snap straps, 5-inch heels, and amazing rope behind-the-ankle ties drew attention from across the gallery. And no wonder: $650 worth of neon Giuseppe Zanotti for Christopher Kane will stop anyone in their tracks. I die. 

Sticking with the Zs: this is just to show that great looks don’t have to cost big bucks, even in Mockba. The very artsy strappy heels below are from Zara.

One for the Fashion team: Voguette Anna, below, looking super-chic in black suede Jil Sander, nicely paired with a metallic blue pedi.

This season, though, black is taking a back seat to colour. Loved these teal and tan patent sandals (below), especially with perfect siren-red toes.

So far in this blog I’ve mentioned Ds, Zs, and now it’s time for a G. That’s the price tag on these beautiful red strappy canvas platforms, worn by Natalya of fashion brand Kova & T. They have a 6-inch wooden heel, a pineapple leaf gold figure on the toes, and are from Charlotte Olympia. Swoon.   

From dizzy designer heights to the highest of high-street heels: Voguette Olesya looked a million dollars in these skyscaper black platforms. They’ve got a touch of the forties Hollywood diva about them – and they’re from Aldo. 

ShoeClub followers may have noticed that I have a bit of a pash for red stilettos – arguably the sexiest shoe ever invented and every bit as delicious with jeans as with ballgowns. They don’t come better than this pair (below): a very simple, classic, sexy pair of red patent stilettos by D&G and worn by Vogue fashionista Natalya. Altogether an excellent example of the art of fashion.