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Dress to impress before you protest
Published: 08 February, 2012, 20:33
Photo from fashionprotest.ru
TAGS: Fashion, Russia, Protest
What to wear to protest with style? Some Russian designers have been using the street protests as an opportunity to promote their fashion ideas, teaching the country’s politically-minded fashion lovers to clearly show their political views.
“Attending mass protests has become the latest trend, no doubt about it,” says designer Aleksandr Arutyunov, the creator of Russia’s first online source on fashion and street protests.
In his blog, the Georgian-born designer, who has shown off his pret-a-porter collections in Russia and overseas including at London Fashion Week, has also promised to demonstrate what it is that unites fashion and revolution.
Arutyunov has so far shared his ideas on what to wear so that your clothing will clearly reveal your political views.
For instance, the designer sees supporters of the United Russia Party dressed to impress, with Rolex watches and Pierre Cardin furs in the limelight, with the dominant color being blue.
He suggests that those who back Just Russia’s social democratic party should wear dark-brownish colors by modest brands.
Right Cause advocates could opt for grey colors by high-end brands.
Those in favor of Yabloko are advised to wear green, sticking to ‘casual chic’ style.
Admirers of the Communist Party needn’t rack their brains looking for what to wear. Go for the red, suggests Arutyunov. It’s a winning combination.
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Well, I'm impressed with her, but she isn't especially dressed to impress more than any other young person in a similar social-political event because the scarf and fur coat in a Moscow winter isn't extravagant. For those who don't know, wearing sunglasses hides the eye-tearing that comes with being out in brutal -20C air. At both the pro and anti Putin rallys, there are lots of trendy dressers - and some not-so-trendy too. Many young people from professional classes at the anti-Putin rallys, and at the pro-Putin rallys, many older, working-class people who could NEVER afford Rolex watches.
Some Russians are looking at the cultural or rallys closely now, and observing where the trendy go to plot tactics (like the Jean Jacques coffee shop in Moscow), their evolving language codes to describe their rally efforts and the changing political scene.
Its an exciting time leading up to 4 March election - and beyond! Change is in the air, and even President Putin knows that his next term will be very different from previous - the oppositions are watching and are active.
For foreigners, its great to get onto twitter, LiveJournal, facebook, vkontakte to follow what the activists are doing - but also to scan the tv news coming from cities far from Moscow to see what THEIR political cultural is about.
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T shirt and Converse and no not a skinhead. And what are you wearing a Burka face cover and ride a camel? I am from America Larry not the Taliban.
Is that all? That sounds like a typical Gay American to me..You're weirder than I thought....And yes you are a skinhead...you once blabbed that all over RT.... You think if you deny it ,we'll forget? That's why you don't post a name ...
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Aw, c'mon Larry. You know very well that anyone with Right (of Center-Right) views in the US, no longer has had any freedom of expression, since the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991.
Not posting a name doesn't make you a criminal or a skinhead; just someone cautious enough not to take undue chances with being unfairly punished by the new internet standards, where freedom of speech doesn't apply. How many people have been suspended, arrested, faced lawsuits, etc... just for posting something on-line--that saying over the phone or verbally in person, wouldn't even be an issue?
You identify yourself as a left-leaning liberal, if you feel secure publicly posting your name in this kind of environment. How nice that political correctness serves YOUR cause, but it most certainly doesn't serve mine, so excuse me for taking the proper precautions with protecting myself from undue false accusations and slander from the likes of your PC liberal friends.