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Dmitriy TCVETKOV

BELT FOR A SHAKHID
 from the 2003 summer/autumn collection

If I cannot secure myself against death, I would like to die with chic. So I make belt for my potential murderers: terrorists, art gallery owners, critics, militia men, «Moving Together» members…

You should revel aesthetically in everything. Including your own death.

Girl’s frontlet
19th century, Arkhangelsk Oblast.
«Whereas in the North they used pearls, which were playing softly with light and shadows, to decorate headdresses and belts, in the South of Russia the clothes were decorated with colourful beads, lace and tinsel».