ALEXANDRE VASSILIEV - Sex and Fashion

Sex and Fashion: From the Era of Diaghilev to the Age of Madonna

• What subtle and overt sartorial strategies do we all employ to attract the opposite sex?

• How have shifting attitudes toward sexuality shaped the evolution of 20th-century fashion?

• Which ideals of masculine and feminine beauty defined the last century?

In his talks, Alexandre Vassiliev explores themes as delicate as they are provocative - sex, eroticism, and the dynamics between the genders. He examines how religion, philosophy, cultural upheavals, and sexual revolutions, along with the transformation of gender roles, have influenced the language and trajectory of fashion.

• In this context, what is fashion: a device, an artifice, a form of seduction?

• How have feminism and machismo, across decades, left their imprint on style?

Alexandre Vassiliev offers a fresh perspective on fashion - the discerning взгляд of a seasoned historian, viewed through the prism of 20th-century social mores.