Alexandre Vassiliev: Fashion and eroticism

Lecture by fashion historian Alexandre Vassiliev

What tricks, implicit and explicit, have people resorted to in clothing to please the opposite sex? How were changes in the perception of sex reflected in the development of fashion? What canons of male and female beauty existed in the last century? On these and many other questions you can get detailed, unexpected, maybe even paradoxical answers in the mono-performance of the famous fashion historian Alexandre Vassiliev.

In his performance, Alexander Vasiliev touches upon such delicate topics as sex, eroticism and gender relations, and also talks about how philosophy, cultural and sexual revolutions, evolution of gender relations influence the formation and development of fashion. The maestro offers a new perspective on fashion - that of a careful Historian through the prism of social mores of the twentieth century.