Word: babushkas
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...world of commerce than an attempt to participate in it. And when they started making clothes, it was to attract attention rather than sales. In 1998 they launched the Atomic Bomb collection, featuring shirts stuffed with helium balloons to mimic a mushroom cloud. After that came the Babushka collection, a single model wearing nine layers of beaded clothing. "We decided we were too much picked up by the art world, so we did couture," says Horsting. "It was a good way to get our name out," says Snoeren. The fashion press began to take notice, as did Franco Pene, head...
...Glasnost,” or openness, in the mid 1980s. Russians were besieged by Western television, film and fashion. Now, women watch Brazilian soap operas and aspire to dress like Julia Roberts and Giselle. The Western media even seems to have made Russia’s holy babushka (grandmother) an anachronism here...
...newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. In the cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...