Russian toy goes designer crazy

Aliona Doletskaya is the editor of Russian Vogue, she is perhaps the most outstanding editor of Vogue around the globe, I dare to say.

This time she outdoes herself again with a spread that recreates Matryosha – everyone’s favorite souvenir from Russia. I remember the original red set my father brought me from his visit to Kremlin in 1988.

But Matryosha is gone very stylish for the Vogue‘s 10th anniversary. She is wearing designers’ clothes.

Nina Donis, Alena Akhmadulina and Giorgio Armani

Ten years ago, when Vogue was founded in Russia, Aliona Doletskaya has served as the magazine’s editor in chief. They call her the Anna Wintour of Russia. Sophisticated and formidably confident, Ms. Doletskaya has been compared to her editorial counterparts at Vogue in Paris and New York.

Celine, Jitrois, Yves Saint Laurent and Burberry

In celebration of the 10th anniversary Aliona decided to recreate and to perfect the Matryosha making her the style icon. Matryosha herself is a fat girl, but they reduced in size to 60x60x60 and made her as tall as 50 sm.

Dolce & Gabbana, Maison Martin Margiela, Giles and Marc Jacobs

Each peace represents a designer with it’s unique outfit – basically th Haute Couture the way it is supposed to be.

Roberto Cavalli, Stella McCartney, Versace and Blumarine

Aliona says, “Whether you call it installation, sculpture or art object – this is art.” That’s right!

Antonio Marras, Ralph Lauren, Moschino and Prada

Paul Smith, Konstantin Gayday, Marni, and Gucci

Sonya Rykiel, Valentin Yudashkin, Emilio Pucci and Andrey Bartenev

Oscar de la Renta, J. Mendel, Dries van Noten, Denis Simachev

My favorite one is Roberto Cavalli. What’s yours?

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1. Roy Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 2:23 am

   Aloha, here they are in motion! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lTPD8bYm8

2. Icha Says:
   October 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

   dries van noten is totally my favourite… altho maison martin margiela is also fantastic!