Journalist Alice Taezhnaya 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 journalist Alice Taiga.
I'm from the generation that trampled in the cold on cardboard boxes on Cherkizon, opened a mass market for the first paycheck, during the first trips abroad - the world of European stores and stunning vintage, then - online sales, clothes of local designers, collaborations of all with all , and then calmed down and realized that clothes were not at all important. Dressing up is a talent, but what impresses me most about people is their eyes, their speech, their passions and how they relate to other people. Teenage stereotypes about what red underwear means (nothing!) And that a person can be guessed by perfume, went where they were supposed to be - into the world of physical fitness locker rooms and first meetings with the adult world.
If only perfect jeans and perfect white T-shirts remained on the planet, I would only go to them. I am sure that the universal color for each person is white, not black. It refreshes, inspires people around and turns you into a good cloud. My other favorite colors are baby pink, beige, and powder. Most of all I love ultramarine and celadon, but I have seen the right things of this color only once in life and still miss the cardigan in which I looked like the daughter of Poseidon and Beyonce. Of my regular purchases - T-shirts, jeans, underwear, socks and sneakers. I am incredibly pleased with the full legalization of sports shoes - for dancers who love bicycles and walking with a dog, this is the eternal answer. At home I have a dozen pairs of sneakers, which I alternate seasonally and wear to a hopeless state. The eternal values of my life - velvet, sequins, shiny and tight, monokini swimsuits, sunglasses for a penny (I lose everything). Most of all I love clothes made of cotton - it is as if mom hugs in her. My life is often hot, so in the winter I go in jeans and white light sweaters, but in the summer I start to invent. I do not like a safe choice like a COS dress with fresh loafers: dryness is annoying at all, but pretentiousness and relaxation are what you need. I dream of a time when guys can safely wear skirts and dresses, and in the heat - walk in underwear, I believe that I will live up to these blissful days. I love men who are satisfied with themselves, who go in mesh t-shirts or without a top, I love women who are topless tanning at any age, I like it when people dress up and are satisfied with themselves - including against the background of carpets and heavy curtains. Life is short, thinking about what they say about your thighs in these shorts is a vain precaution.
I try to buy clothes very rarely - only what I need for myself (most often on sales), as a gift or very much in the mood. Dozens of documentary stories about how clothes are made discourage me from the consumer attitude to things and showed the wondrous world of a 16-hour working day in Southeast Asia. I was brought up so that things should not be expensive, but chic - it is from somewhere inside, not from the dress. There are a lot of people around me who dress expensively and elegantly, I always have where to put money: most often for traveling, movie tickets or the same gifts. Premium does not mean anything to me, all the main things in my life are free. At some point, I realized that I needed to share and change good with the same rags tired of me, so I had the idea to make regular swap parties. The idea is not mine at all, but it got acclimatized in my apartment, it has become a constant and always joyful event of the month, during which I meet my favorite girls, and the things that are boring get new life. Now half of my wardrobe is a swap. My dream is that instead of any worthless shopping center with idle squares there would be a huge swap community where the residents of a big city would find themselves in another space of joy without the participation of money. We all have too much junk.
LES 'dress, top no name, Levi's jeans, H & M slippers
As it turned out, I always dreamed of a transparent dress: it makes the princess out of the blue - I like to wear it with something controversial or torn. I once read a lecture on feminist cinema in it, dressed in sports shorts under - and felt like the heroine of the day. Bjork has a great clip "Bachelorette", where she stands in a T-shirt and jeans, and half an evening dress hangs in front - here I somehow feel that way. I nasvopila a cropped T-shirt - I used to be embarrassed to wear a bare belly, then I looked at the photos and realized that he had not changed since he was 14, so I was in vain worried. I bought these delightful jeans at Made in Berlin, my favorite Berlin second, for a symbolic € 20 many years ago, tore my knees on them and made them my favorite pants after +10. I bought slippers for 2 euros at a winter sale in Berlin this February - I only remember AAAAAAAAAA in my head, and I am already at the box office. When this happens, it’s a holy moment: I don’t beat my hands.
Monki Cap, Vintage Shirt, ASOS Jeans, Topshop Earrings, Americal Apparel Clutch
I bought this cap three times - lost two: I hope they are in the new owners. Favorite pink and here does not fail, the cap is capable of hiding a dirty head and refreshing a tired face. I put a shirt on my girlfriend Julia Kimaeva: in general, I’m more likely about dogs, and then pussies - but they are cats, aristocrats. I squeaked when I saw this shirt, wildly - so I got it. These jeans are from the world of ideal mass market jeans, they can be worn only in spring and summer because of the color, but I will not part with them anyway. Earrings from the best jewelry department in the mass market - Topshop: there I hung for months and eventually chose the best lots of my jewelry collection. It is huge, it is impossible to carry everything around, it's time to make a mini-museum show off. Pink flamingo is a common place, but when in ears it’s not so bad. Klatch chose from a huge number of colors in AA - a company with the most correct advertising policy and attitude to seamstresses. They seem to have gone broke, but their stores are still there. Nobody makes golden swimsuits better. Pink is my favorite non-neutral color.
LUBLU dress, Topshop earrings, H & M shawl
I nasvopila this dress with my girlfriend Oli - on my figure there is not much that it looks like it is poured in, and then the dress was sewn simply for me. The wild bird of the prairies, the royal bow, the basque on the stomach, amazing fabric - I want to go to Africa, this is my attempt to find myself there. In this dress I was at a wedding of close friends, and this is the most important thing. The earrings are heavy, but they are worth it, and I used to wrap my head for any reason with a handkerchief. Very often, laziness to spend time on necklaces, bracelets or earrings, and I tie a scarf on my head, belt, arm, shoulder or neck - and each time it turns out differently.
H & M Dress x Maison Martin Margiela, belt & bracelet H & M
I got this dress from Aishat's girlfriend - I have never bought anything at H & M collaborations: I’m sorry for the money and don’t want to stand in line since early morning. Aishat did not wear a dress and gave it to me, I feel like a heroine Catherine Breillat on a dangerous date: I usually put on a laconic bandage down, but today I forgot it. So now the dress just screams. The bracelet is my favorite favorite piece, there are several dog breeds on it: it is idiotic and dilutes the pathos of the dress. I am dying by dogs, I have two of them - huge and outbred buns.
H & M T-Shirt, Unknown Brand Skirt, ASOS Necklace, Zara Sandals
White T-shirts are the most densely populated heading in my wardrobe: there is always soy sauce, ketchup, mustard or coffee that you cannot wash away, and you have to buy something new. I am the champion of gastronomic stains on clothes, and it makes me laugh. I skipped my skirt with my friend Gali - she complained that she didn’t know what to wear it with, for me the question is not worth it at all. The print resembles the famous Delftware porcelain: I lived in Holland for three years and prefer to remember it only as a world of excellent artists and lovely canals - it was unbearably boring. I bought a necklace from a photo and did not lose: it is hot in summer, but I feel like a bird in it. I bought white sandals for some kind of event with a white dress code - and they stayed with me for three years. I rarely wear it when sneakers are completely out of place.
Uniqlo t-shirt, mother's leather skirt
Uniqlo has the best tight jeans and wonderful T-shirts: this one with Keith Haring and my favorite American flag has become my favorite for two seasons. I took my skirt from my mother, she kept it for many years, and then gave it to me when I was 19 years old. The skirt has an intricate story - it was given by my husband's aunt's sister, leather and long to the floor. Her mother shortened her and was a fatal lady a little older than me. I am terribly fond of her style, her pockets and how arrogant she looks many years later - as if the 80s did not go anywhere.
Skirt Topshop, IFC T-shirt
The velvet skirt of inconceivable color I nasvopila with Olya's friend, who is tired of her; I generally have a weakness for pencil skirts and even more for velvet. I also have a golden one - the priest starts yelling: "Rubens! Nicky Minaj!" I bought a t-shirt after the show "Byzantium" Neil Jordan (awesome movie!) In the New York cinema IFC. It was a hot night, and there she was - a T-shirt with the name of my favorite director, stylized as the logo of the group Def Leppard. IFC made a series of such with a bunch of directors (I still have Scorsese, Carpenter and Jodorowski), and I literally went crazy and screamed that I wanted her for any money. 20 bucks - and she is mine. A year ago, I shook hands with Brian De Palme during the festival - he is already quite old. Then my heart beat for two hours from the happiness and feeling of his loose, kind, old hand. I could not put on a t-shirt with his name.
Mother's dress, earrings and sandals - Topshop, vintage scarf, unknown bag, unknown belt
This is my most-favorite thing, although it is often impossible to wear it - but on the set of Solange, I screamed at it, for example. The dress of the patterns of the 70s was made from the Central Asian fabric by the family of my mother - her mother and two sisters. They lived at that moment in Ashgabat. Grandma collected fabrics, artifacts, cards and letters of all family members, she is our chronicler. And at some point she brought me this dress as a gift. It is a bathrobe, but with the persistent feeling that Woodstock has just passed. In this dress, I made my performance at the exhibition and dedicated it to my grandmothers and mixed origins - my father from Tambov, and my mother lived in Central Asia until the age of 16. I bought earrings for some incredible outfit - if there is gold and feathers, I will buy it. A bag made of suede (I love suede bags) was charged on a swap and I always wear it in summer. I try to choose jackets, bags and shoes only from leather and suede - it warms, serves forever and never bothers. When I was a vegetarian, I suffered a dozen intractable dilemmas (what to eat? What to wear? What do eggplants think when we eat them? And mushrooms — are they plants or animals?), But one night she found herself with a smoked loaf, exhaled and gave up the experience 2.5 years long.
Monki Pants, Boohoo Top, Topshop Earrings
There is such a satanic brand of cheap and intolerable synthetic Boohoo: I do not wear a lot of polyester, but when it starts to shine, I lose my will. I terribly wanted to buy something not very decent, secret weapon for a penny, which will change my life for the better. And in general, the top arrived and sat down like a glove. The Monki pants came about the same way: I just grabbed them - I never had gold pants. Now there is also a golden dress, I will wear it on my 30th birthday - I wondered if I lived - and I will cut a large golden chocolate cake with the guests. Bad Tast will save the world.
ASOS dress, girlfriend's wig
In winter, this dress should be worn on a T-shirt, in general, there is no normal weather for it. When it is hot outside, it sticks to the body, in winter it crunches under the coat, but it shimmers like a mermaid's tail, and is combined with tanned skin. I'm not one of those people who will tolerate a sweaty ass for the sake of cool photos, but once in a hundred years I want to feel like the sixth spice girl - and now the dress arrived. Wig gave me an incredible friend Ksyusha, saying that he gave her a lot of drunk and fun evenings. I definitely will wear it in the winter - a pink wig is much better than a banal cap and will save me from a pale, pale face with short ice days.
Cyrille Gassiline blouse, skirt and ring - H & M
I don’t really like the black top (except for the perfect black turtleneck with jeans, when it's cold and sad), but this is the perfect top - besides with a bow. I didn’t do bows to me as a child, so now I’m looking for compensation. The skirt instantly made me happy: at a sale, it cost only 10 euros, has two ebb tides - gold and black and emerald - and makes me an honorary citizen of the Paghetto kingdom. Shakira, do not be shy.
Perfume Demeter Rain, Maison Martin Margiela Replica Flower Market, Issey Miyake Pleats Please
I know that many people like hard and heavy smells - I absolutely never could love them for myself. I came to the fact that I like the smells of nature most of all, the more I live in the city and I rarely leave for nature - there are horseflies, flies itch and mosquitoes stick. Spirits Demeter I nasvopila, Replica gave me dear friends, knowing that I just really love the smells of flowers. If I buy perfume myself, then it is very often semi-weightless and very fresh Kenzo or Issey Miyake - Pleats Please, it seems that there is a limited odor with light, freshly sour notes. This is my favorite.
Nike and adidas x Stella McCartney Sneakers
Sneakers are my main shoes at any time of the year. There is no more pleasant feeling when I caught up with the trolley bus, so I completely weaned myself away from any shoe that holds down. Previously, only walking in sneakers was synonymous with some kind of trouble, now, it seems, everyone walks around in what is convenient - and it is very correct: not to deny your nature. I buy shoes most often in the same place - at a discount on Leninsky, because the new prices for sneakers are deadly oppressive.
Cheap Monday rings, Topshop, silver gift ring
I love the rings incredibly, but I constantly forget to put them on - they are a part of my collection. The only thing is that it is impossible to wear them in winter, when it is cold and you need gloves. A birthday ring with a mineral a few years ago was given to me by Nastya and Olya — both now do not live in Moscow, and the ring reminds me of them and their wonderful taste. I love these gifts.
Cheap Monday bracelet, mass market earrings
I ordered the bracelet on the web, it is the same bomb in reality as in the picture, but I don’t wear it very often. The history of my earrings is very difficult to track when I see a candelabra - I lose my will. These are forged under gold and as much as possible realize my habits of magpies. If the clothes on me are boring for some reason, the earrings play everything back by 200 percent.
Backpack American Apparel
I got during the swap - a great and universal thing, with which I do not part. I have the same gold and black with white polka dots: each is good in its own way. A couple of years ago, my boyfriend brought me a backpack from America in the color of the American flag, knowing how much I love American films. I walked with him around the Kursk railway station after the start of the Cold War and put it off until future times: I want the flags as soon as possible to be just pieces of beautiful fabric and nothing more. My favorite flags are Brazilian, Kenyan, Argentine and Swedish.
Shawls collection
I have about twenty scarves, and I adore them - I didn’t understand how to approach them and how to wear them, but then I bought three at a Berlin second and decided to weave them into ordinary life. My beloved friend Aishat, a girl with phenomenal taste and sense of humor, taught me how to tie a scarf: she can wear a dress with her eyes closed and look like a queen in her. She jokes like a goddess - now she is in Florida, and I miss her terribly. She showed me the easiest way to put hair in an instant hairstyle: for lazy people like me, such advice is very necessary.
Bag from Venice and H & M cosmetic bag
In Venice, there are hundreds of two identical shops with leather bags, and when you walk past them in two weeks in the city — I was at a film festival and biennale — you think you need to buy something urgently. Usually gifts from trips do not linger (it was with an idiot umbrella, illustrated with cats that hang on the embankment of St. Petersburg), but I loved the bag very much. It is perfectly made, beautiful color, and it fits my phone in a penguin case. As a mermaid, I bought a cosmetic bag after my beloved with a leopard print was tired and stopped fastening, it is unkillable, and it contains my minimum: lip balm, eyebrow mascara, eyeliner, two creams and bright lipstick.