This Thanksgiving, the GIRLS are celebrating family... which brought us to the family of bears climbing trees on our unisex jersey tee-shirt MISHKI.
MISHKI is a reinterpretation of Ivan Shishkin’s painting Morning In the Pine Tree Forest from 1889.
In our version the bear family has been extended by one rash member…
What is he looking for in the tree?
Here's the original painting that inspired our version. The artist, Shishkin, was appreciated in his time for his fine detail and full and finished impressions of the Russian landscape. Read more about Shishkin here.
It’s been a week from the opening Diaghilev exhibition in V&A museum in London. This exposition is devoted to one hundred (1909 -1925) anniversary since Russian ballet seasons in Paris were launched. This brilliant collection of images, costumes and decorations traveled from Moscow all around the world. It was the most progressive ballet in the whole Europe at that time. Sergey Diaghilev was a founder and the owner. He had talent of vision what is good and what is bad and was never afraid of being misunderstood.
It's hard to believe now that the first performance of Stravinsky's “Весна Cвященная” (“Spring”/"Le Sacre du printemps') failed in Paris. You can see a small peace of this scene in a new movie about Chanel and Stravinskiy romance.
Music, costumes, choreography - all was shoсkingly innovative. Some time later new rules of dance, music and arts were accepted. And from that time golden era of Russian culture abroad has started. Anna Pavlova, Nizhinskiy, Karsavina, Fokin danced for "Seasons". Goncharova, Larionov, Bakst, Roerich created costumes. Picasso and De Chirico made backgrounds and decorations. Stravinskiy wrote the most avangard music. Here are some sketches by the great Russian artists of those times and Picasso's background.
The tea (we called it like Turkish people CHAY) appeared in Russia in 17 century. From that time it became the most popular hot drink all over the country. We can drink it with milk, with lemon sometimes we put jam, confiture or honey inside. The best thing about "tea ceremony" in Russia it is SAMOWAR. The way of drinking is also different. The nicest one is drinking from the sauser. Many famous russian artists were fascinated by this tradition. Have a look how bright and coloroful it can be - drinking tea in summertime on the DACHA's terrace.
