Tatler magazine gossip editor Masha Limonova about favorite outfits
FOR RUBBER "WARDROBE" we take pictures of beautiful, original or strangely dressed people in their favorite things and ask them to tell related stories. This week our heroine is Tatler magazine editor-in-chief Masha Limonova.
About half of my wardrobe is vintage. True, this designation is arbitrary: I have no education of a fashion historian and I do not presume to distinguish the "native" Thierry Mugler from the one made on Malaya Arnaut Street. Ten years ago I first came to a vintage shop in Tel Aviv, and since then, various flea markets and a storehouse of junk have found me in all parts of the world. Trophies are the most diverse: from Valentino Roma jacket for twenty shekels to vintage fake under Levi's. The apogee happened in Stockholm, where I was exactly a day away on a business trip and still managed to come across a vintage store. I almost went out with a wedding dress for eight hundred crowns that was completely unnecessary to me. Common sense woke up at the checkout. But it sat perfectly.
In Moscow, everything went well too. Two steps from my house on Pokrovka there is a Strogo Vintage store with a very good selection of vintage and second-hand.
I intentionally buy something very rarely, the exception is T-shirts and shirts from the men's section of Uniqlo. In other cases, the clothes find me myself, I just do not have enough patience to measure ten pairs of jeans in search of ideal ones. Either because of two years of work in GQ, or because of an innate love for the “bag of potatoes” style, but I prefer men's clothing to women. Almost all the jackets, jackets, shirts and a million more of everything I have fastened on an unusual side.
Online shopping, or, more precisely, surfing online stores used to take up all my free time. It is still terribly proud of being one of the first hundred who registered with Moda Operandi. Now I go to The Outnet, Shopbop, Net-A-Porter, Need Supply Co. and a few more sites solely for the sake of interest, I order something extremely rarely, mostly shoes. For some reason I can’t force myself to buy shoes in the mass market, I naively believe in a comfortable shoe and high-quality tailoring of designer samples. At the same time, the origin of clothes does not play a big role for me.
Previously, in my wardrobe, the costume studio cried, but the current work discouraged the desire to buy eccentric outfits. Any too beautiful things have a very short shelf life - exactly one secular way out. Then she returns to the closet to wait for oblivion. The impossible dream is a compact set of things that fit together, fit well and take up little space. I suppose that for this it was necessary not to be born in a creative family.
Pajamas IZBA rouge, Valentino sandals
The role of the very boyfriend, whose jeans and shirts are supposed to be worn by every self-respecting girl, is played in my life by a friend of the Magician Umhaev. Before showing Gosha Rubchinsky in St. Petersburg, I went to him for five minutes for a fashionable rain coat, without which the trip was threatened, and I went out at three in the night with two huge bags and a hat. While they were looking for a raincoat, at the same time Magin dismantled an immense wardrobe and found a bunch of skeletons. I was joking that in these rubble there should definitely be a wedding dress somewhere. As a result, we dug up this ingenious pajamas.
Raoul dress
My friend Olga Demidova, before moving to Zimbabwe to save the lion cubs, was engaged in PR of a few very nice stamps in Moscow. This dress from the Russian collection of Raoul hung in the showroom for a long time and took place under the code name "Rolling Stones in Marrakech." Then it turned out by chance that it was called Masha dress in the lookbook, and the dress moved to my closet for permanent residence. It is quite appropriate with heels for Moscow's black tay, but much more I like to wear it on vacation by the sea like this barefoot. We ought to take him to a party in the Moroccan Riad.
Vintage dress and jacket, adidas sneakers
Dress for twenty euros from Berlin Humana Vintage. I measured it half the store, but came to the cashier with one thing. For some time now, I have forbidden myself to buy clothes that are sitting so-so, because the plan to alter does not work ever. This dress is like a village and since then it collects compliments regularly. In it, I came in for an interview with my chief editor, Xenia Solovyova, so that it is not only beautiful, but also happy.
Jacket - Ohmazh exactly the same denim leather jacket of my friend Belka. I loved her jacket very much and wore it all last summer, but Belka treacherously dragged her to London to mount the Dow with no plans to go back with her. A twin on a darker shade was found in Strogo Vintage on Pokrovka a couple of months ago.
I denied the trend to the "ugly" sneakers with dresses to the last, but recently gave up. In these Climacool it is very convenient to walk to work and then go out somewhere in the evening - to various “opening envelopes” or for a walk with the dog in the Bauman garden. Theoretically, they should be especially good in the heat, but so far summer does not give a chance to check it out.
Philipp Plein Suit, Americal Apparel Bras, adidas Gym Shoes
Another skeleton from the wardrobe of Magomed Umkhayev. In this case, the skeleton is really: Mr. Plain is unable to release the thing without the image of the skull. But here he does not interfere. About the genius of trouser suits have already said everything to me. I put it on in the morning with sneakers and a T-shirt, in the evening I took off my T-shirt and put on my heels - the hard days of the social newsreader become a little easier. White sneakers do not happen much. These knitted came to replace the obsolete "converse".
Vintage Dress, Belt and Bag, Alexander Wang Ankle Boots
A set of dresses, bags and belts was found on a particularly good day at the favorite flea market in Tel Aviv five years ago. The pop-up junk used to open on Tuesdays and Fridays in Dizengoff Square, and now because of repairs (the local “My Street” is raging there) has moved to the new-fangled district of Sharon. A beautiful cotton dress is sitting as if it were sewn specially for me. My dream is to find such five pieces so that they never end.
I am indifferent to bags, the times when it seemed reasonable to give a couple of organs for the classic Céline are long gone. But I really like this one for color, size and spaciousness. I know nothing about her origin and age, but after five years of active use, she only becomes more beautiful.
These boots were once found on The Outnet and were considered "very comfortable shoes." After the ankle fracture, heels became harder to wear, but in these you can really relive the evening and even stormy dances.
Walk of Shame skirt, Uniqlo T-shirt, Valentino sandals
This is the best skirt in the world - a gift from former colleagues from the V Confession, with which they blessed me to go to Tatler. In principle, I really like everything that Andrei sews. Good with heels, and with sneakers. Sometimes I go to her at home, when it is sad, and my soul requires a holiday. For boomerangs, better clothes have not yet been invented. I suspect that my cat secretly wants to gobble it up.
Sandals found five minutes in the St. Petersburg "Butterfly" at the height of the economic forum. Comfortable, beautiful, golden, slightly beaten valentine "spikes" here look extremely delicate - the perfect summer shoes for the exit.
B.S BAG's shirt, Uniqlo U jeans, Roger Vivier ballet flats, Hermès shawl
Something like that I would like to look every day in peacetime. It is a pity, rarely everything is folded so that the white jeans are clean, and there was a fifteen minutes to stroke the shirt. This man’s XXL shirt is from a small junk shop in Crete. I love her for the beautiful shade of royal blue and sleeves like Pierrot. On vacation, perfectly replaces the beach dress.
Silk bandana - a gift from PR director Hermès Julie Maximenkova for her birthday. Yulia got into her favorite color scheme for sure, therefore, despite the absolute inability to wear accessories, I often knit it to improve my everyday outfit.
Topman Cloak, Denis Simachev T-shirt, Uniqlo jeans, Maison Martin Margiela ankle boots, Michael Kors Man backpack
When you do not have the strength to dress thoughtfully, but you need to go somewhere, save the tabi. They are very comfortable and give the necessary degree of "fashion" to any outfit. The only problem is to find for them socks with the fingers.
In T-shirts, which the bar gives out on major holidays, it is best to sleep. But this one remained in the category of decent things, for some reason such a thick cotton is very rarely found. I begged her at Mark Shchedrin by the dawn of the third day of the celebration of the decade. Jeans have an amazing color: neither dog nor cat hair is completely visible on them - in my case this is a super bonus. In addition, they sit about as in the clips of Rihanna, thirteen years old.
I ignored backpacks for a long time, this one was a trophy from the opening of the male Michael Kors in Metropolis, for which I was responsible for my head. The cosmetic bag, the curling iron, a dinner and a lot of everything else gets into it, at the same time it does not look like a school satchel, therefore it replaced the endless rag bags.
Gucci Blazer, Christian Dior Dress, Proenza Schouler Sandals
Currency onions at a price much lower than the market. I went to the Chanel cocktail in Paris, where everyone was dressed from head to foot in the works of Charles, and did not feel like a dowry. Beautiful double-breasted - and, of course, men's - jacket found all in the same Strogo Vintage in a fit of rampant shopping for the New Year holidays.
The dress is vintage Dior, a gift from the creative director of V Confession and the person with the most impeccable taste in the world of Natasha Guest. Like a classic princess outfit, it can fit in a thimble. Shore for very special holidays.
When the trees were large, and the euro - forty rubles, "TSUM" transported its discount from the "Warm Stan" in the "White Cottage", in connection with which he sold the archives with discounts of almost one hundred percent. There, among other riches, I dug these sandals - beautiful, comfortable, versatile, firmly kept in the list of things, without which I refuse to live.
Cape By Malene Birger, vintage combination, Proenza Schouler sandals
Cape for square shoulders is often teased "burka." Able to improve any jeans with a white shirt and sneakers and not to spoil the cocktail dress.
Last summer, Berlin friends showed me a vintage Mimi store in Schöneberg. There, in addition to beautiful dresses, there is a beautiful wardrobe with combinations and bathrobes. This one is just from there, I wear it as a dress on special occasions, the inset of lace does not leave much room for imagination.
Cyrille Gassiline dress, vintage belt, Proenza Schouler sandals
The most versatile and favorite dress. Cyril has a great talent to sew such things. Ideal for travel, the floral print hides any crimes like ketchup stains, it does not crumple and is suitable for absolutely any occasion.
Carven Dress, Alexander Wang Ankle Boots
I found this dress at a sale that sunk into oblivion on the minus ground floor of the Tsvetnoy for three, it seems, thousands of rubles. Prices it does not, it is magical. Every time I put it on, the evening ceases to be languid: at least one long relationship and several funny stories began in it. The last time he lay in it in the bath with ice at the birthday party "Simacheva".
Dress Mango, adidas sneakers
A rare case of a mass market stitched like decent clothes. From the same poplin a lot of dresses from Marni. I bought a Tel Aviv sunburn after the May holidays - now it beautifully shades the green face of the native Muscovite. Length motivates me not to miss pilates lessons.
Vintage clips, Oscar de la Renta clips
I don’t have my ears pierced, I’m losing rings and decorating myself with a heavy jeweler, in principle, I don’t like them, so I only wear clips. Friends know this and give the most beautiful.
Udwood oil
With the spirits we have a break in the relationship. Recently, I use only this oil. The stock is replenished in the Arab shop in the market of the old city in Jerusalem.