Alexander Vasiliev is a world-famous theater artist, interior designer, art critic and fashion historian.
Alexander Vasiliev was born on December 8, 1958 in Moscow into a well-known theatrical family. His father, People's Artist of Russia, Alexander Vasilyev Sr. (1911 - 1990), corresponding member of the Academy of Arts, designer of scenery and costumes for more than 300 productions on the domestic and foreign stages. Mother, Tatyana Vasilyeva - Gulevich (1924 - 2003), dramatic actress, professor, one of the first graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School.
Since childhood, Alexander Vasiliev was brought up in a theatrical environment. At the age of five, Alexander created his first costumes and scenery for the puppet theater, at the same time he took part in the filming of children's programs on Soviet television "The Bell Theater" and "Alarm Clock". He designed his first performance-fairy tale "The Wizard of the Emerald City" at the age of 12, showing extraordinary abilities for theatrical design and costume design. 
The example of his father, not only a classic decorator, but also the creator of stage costumes for Lyubov Orlova, Faina Ranevskaya, Igor Ilyinsky, had a special influence on the young artist. At the age of 22, A. Vasiliev graduated from the Production Department of the Moscow Art Theater School. Then he worked as a costume designer at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. In 1982 he moved to Paris, where he immediately began working for the French theater Rond Pointe on the Champs Elysées, the Bastille Opera Studio, Luserner, Cartoucherie, the Avignon Festival, the Ballet du Nord, the Young Ballet of France and the Royal Opera of Versailles.
Alexander Vasiliev is the creator of scenery for operas, theatrical productions, films and ballets for many famous theaters and troupes. For example, the National Theater in London, the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow, the Gong Kong Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the Oya Masako Ballet in Osaka and the Asami Maki Ballet in Tokyo, the National Ballet of Mexico, the Nevada Ballet, the Santiago Opera and Ballet Theater and many others have collaborated with him. etc. You can learn more about this facet of A. Vasiliev's work in the "Performances" section. Theatrical sketches by Alexander Vasiliev in 2016 were recognized as a national treasure of Russia by the Ministry of Culture and entered into its fund.
Alexander Vasiliev lectures in 4 languages in many colleges and universities around the world as a visiting professor in the history of fashion and stage design. Alexander Vasilyev is the owner of one of the largest private collections of costumes from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Alexander showed this collection in many countries of the world - in Russia, Australia, USA, Chile, Turkey, Hong Kong, Belgium, Great Britain, France, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and other countries. Awarded for the promotion of Russian art with the medal of S.P. Diaghilev, the medal of V. Nijinsky, the order "Maecenas" and the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia, as well as numerous awards in the field of fashion. Twice winner of the Tobav Prize in Turkey. 
Alexander Vasiliev is the author of the book "Beauty in Exile", which went through more than 15 editions - in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008. and further - and translated into English in New York in 2000. In 1998, Beauty in Exile was named the best illustrated book of the year. He is the author of the book Russian Fashion. 150 Years in Photographs (Slovo Publishing House, 2004), which contains more than 2,000 photographs dedicated to the history of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet fashion, starting from the 50s of the 19th century and ending with the beginning of XXI century. The book contains texts from fashion magazines of different eras, fragments of interviews with fashion models, famous people, film actresses, fashion designers. How social, political and economic reasons influenced the character of the clothes of a Russian person, how the silhouette and fabrics were modified, how the canons of beauty were formed, posture, facial expression and sparkle in the eyes changed - these are the range of issues discussed in the book.
Alexander Vasiliev is a co-author of the book “Lyudmila Lopato. Magic Mirror of Memories. Zakharov, Moscow, 2003, and then Alpina publishing house. He also co-authored with 100-year-old Parisian Russian ballerina Ksenia Tripolitova the book "Little Ballerina" ed. Alpina. In total, Alexander Vasiliev published more than 30 books, exhibition catalogs and publications about fashion and style. Alexander Vasiliev has worked for the Russian editions of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar as a special correspondent in Paris.
Since 2002, Alexander Vasilyev has been present on the Kultura TV channel as the author and host of the Breath of the Century program. This cycle is based on the book Beauty in Exile. In 2005, the Kultura TV channel began broadcasting a new 10-episode TV series Breath of the Century - 22, based on the book Russian Fashion. 150 Years in Photographs. Since 1994, Alexander Vasilyev has devoted much of his time to master classes and lecture courses at Russian universities and colleges. Since 2000, under the direction of Alexander Vasilyev, Samara has been hosting the fashion festival "Volga Seasons of Alexander Vasilyev". 
In October 2003, the Alexander Vasiliev Interiors design studio was opened in Moscow. The goal of the new project is to present the rich Russian tradition in a Parisian veneer. In Russia, Alexander Vasiliev lectures at the Faculty of Management and Fashion Theory at Moscow State University, in lecture halls in St. Petersburg, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Ufa, Perm, Barnaul, Murmansk and many other cities.
In February 2004, the exhibition “Russian Interior in Photographs” was held, at which Alexander Vasilyev presented 55 rare photographs, never before published or exhibited, dedicated to the theme of Russian interior of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Its result was the book "Russian interior in old photographs" Publishing House "Slovo" Moscow. The same publishing house published the book "Russian Hollywood" - which also became a bestseller.
Alexander Vasiliev manages the series of fashion books Les memoires de la mode at the Eterna publishing house, books from which are very popular.
Numerous exhibitions from the collection of Alexander Vasilyev have become the plots of author's video films that allow our contemporaries to see his exhibitions in GUM, the Museum of Moscow, the Leipzig Art Center, the Pushkin Museum and abroad.
Since 2008 - fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev - a permanent fashion judge in the legendary TV project on Channel 1 - "Fashionable Sentence" - which is watched daily by more than 35 million Russians, as well as a huge audience throughout the Russian-speaking world. In 2015, the Fashion Sentence program received the TEFI award as the best entertainment program on TV.
Alexander Vasiliev about his parents:
Today, the name of Alexander Vasilyev is known far beyond the fashion world, since he is rightfully considered a fairly public person. He gives lectures at universities, broadcasts on the first channel, conducts speeches to the audience with stories about the most relevant wardrobe items.
All this allows us to consider Vasiliev a fashion historian with a capital letter. In addition, he is a quite successful decorator and art historian, writer and collector, which is far from a complete list of the virtues that this versatile personality possesses. As they say, a talented person is talented in everything! Despite all his openness, he strictly keeps the secrets of his personal life, without revealing any secrets and details. Of course, such mystery only kindles the curiosity of the fair sex, who show an increased interest in this ambiguous personality.
Alexander Vasilyev - show business star
We note right away that, as in the life of any famous person who managed to make his way in life with his work and talent, he had both periods of rapid ups and downs. Moreover, some journalists even made a dubious assumption about the unconventional orientation of the historian. No one cited evidence of such rumors, and he himself justifies the polygamy of men.
So after all, who is she - the wife of Alexander Vasilyev - a fashion historian? Let's start with the fact that he has two marriages behind him. The first wife was a Frenchwoman, with whom they lived for three years and still have excellent relations. Although there were rumors that the marriage was fictitious and only thanks to him the artist at one time was able to move abroad. But let it remain on the conscience of spiteful critics.
Vasiliev's wife
It was in France that a wonderful career as a fashion designer began, his name began to sound more and more often in the fashion world. The most famous ladies of secular society listened to him. The clothing models he created made a splash on the fashion catwalks. The next wife of Alexander Vasilyev becomes an Icelander after some time, but this marriage was not destined to last long either. By the way, it should be said that he keeps in touch with all his former spouses. All of them were and remain successful and happy women. Both have remarried and each has three children.
Alexander Vasiliev was born on December 8, 1958 in Moscow into a well-known theatrical family. Father - Alexander Vasiliev (1911-1990), People's Artist of Russia, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts. Mother - Tatyana Vasilyeva Gulevich (1924-2003), dramatic actress, professor, one of the first graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School.Alexander Vasiliev: “The atmosphere in our family was very creative. I often went to my father's workshop, watched how he works. That's how I studied painting. At the same time he was engaged in music - he played the piano, and choreography. I was constantly hanging out with my mother in the theater - sometimes in the dressing rooms, sometimes backstage.
The quote is taken from the magazine "7 Days", No. 39 (29.09.2011)
At the age of five, the future fashion designer created his first costumes and scenery for the puppet theater. At the same time, Vasiliev took part in the filming of children's programs "The Bell Theater" and "Alarm Clock". He designed his first performance-fairy tale "The Wizard of the Emerald City" at the age of 12.
Alexander graduated from the production department of the Moscow Art Theater School. Then he worked as a costume designer at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
In 1981, Vasilyev entered into a fictitious marriage with the Frenchwoman Anne-Mishlin Jean Bodimont, who studied Russian at Moscow State University. Their union lasted five years.
Alexander Vasiliev: “Our marriage lasted five years. Relations with Anna were very unusual. Oddly enough, my fictitious wife did not want to see me.
Alexander Vasiliev (fashion historian)
Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev. Born December 8, 1958 in Moscow. Russian and French fashion historian, art critic, collector, interior decorator, theater artist, TV presenter.
Father - Alexander Pavlovich Vasiliev (1911-1990), theater designer, People's Artist of the RSFSR, designer of scenery and costumes.
Mother - Tatyana Ilyinichna Vasilyeva-Gulevich (1924-2003), dramatic actress, professor, one of the first graduates of the Moscow Art Theater School.
I grew up in a theatrical atmosphere. He was greatly influenced by the work of his father, who created scenery and costumes for more than 300 productions on the domestic and foreign stage.
From an early age, he was fond of creating costumes and scenery. At first he made them for performances in the puppet theater, later - for his own play "The Wizard of the Emerald City", which he staged at the age of twelve.
He took part in the filming of children's programs on Soviet television "Kolokolchik Theater" and "Alarm Clock".
Alexander Vasiliev in childhood in the program "Alarm clock"
He studied at the English special school No. 29, from where he was expelled due to poor academic performance. Then he studied at the school of working youth No. 127.
In 1981, Vasiliev graduated from the production department of the Moscow Art Theater School. He worked as a costume designer at the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya with his father, designed performances.
In the early 1980s, after a fictitious marriage with a French woman, he left for Paris. There he worked as a decorator for various French theaters and festivals, such as Rond Pointe (Théâtre du Rond-Point) on the Champs Elysées, Bastille Opera Studio, Lucerner (Théâtre du Lucernaire), Cartoucherie (Théâtres de la Cartoucherie), Avignon Festival, Bale du Nord , Young Ballet of France and the Royal Opera of Versailles.
Since 1994, Alexander Vasilyev began to give lectures and demonstrate master classes at various universities and colleges around the world. He speaks seven foreign languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish), and lectures in three of them - English, French and Spanish.
Since 2000, under his leadership, the Festival of fashion and theatrical costume "Volga seasons of Alexander Vasiliev" has been held in Samara.
In 2003 he opened a design studio "Interiors of Alexander Vasiliev".
In Russia, he lectures on the course "Management and Fashion Theory" at Moscow State University, in lecture halls in various cities of Russia. In 2005, Alexander Vasiliev's field school began to work, within the framework of which students travel to various cultural capitals, including Paris, London, Venice, Rome, Morocco, Cambodia, Madrid, Istanbul, Riga, Vilnius.
Since 2005, the Museum of the History of Fashion of the 20th Century has been operating at the Russian-British Institute of Management in Chelyabinsk. The idea of creating a museum was presented to the institute by Vasiliev.
Theatrical works of Alexander Vasiliev
Alexander Vasiliev is the creator of scenery for operas, theatrical productions, films and ballets. He designed the ballets "Romeo and Juliet", "Swan Lake", "Anna Karenina" - in total more than 100 productions in 25 countries of the world.
Vasiliev worked on stage design and costumes for the Pushkin Theater performance “And suddenly ...”, which is staged in the Pushkin theater lobby, with the National Theater in London, the Scottish Ballet in Glasgow, the Royal Ballet in Flanders, as well as with the ballets of Japan, the USA, Chile and others.
In Russia, productions designed by Alexander Vasilyev were staged at the Moscow Operetta Theater, the Academic Musical Theater named after. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, opera houses in Novosibirsk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don.
In 2012, at the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, he carried out a major renewal of the one-act ballet The Pavilion of Armida to music by N. Tcherepnin. Conductor - Evgeny Khokhlov.
Since 2002, Alexander Vasilyev began working on the Kultura TV channel as the author and host of the Breath of the Century program. Since November 23, 2009, Alexander Vasilyev has been the permanent moderator of the fashion court sessions in the Fashion Sentence program instead of Vyacheslav Zaitsev.
In 2009-2012, he was the scientific director of the Moscow Academy of Fashion at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino, where he taught master classes. In 2012-2013 - master of the course at the Faculty of Design and Fashion at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting "Ostankino".
Since 2012 he has been collaborating with Radio Mayak. In 2013 - the host of the series of programs "Portraits of great fashionistas" on "Radio Mayak".
In 2016, he starred in a small role in the film "Hero".
Alexander Vasiliev in the film "Hero"
Collection of Alexander Vasiliev
Owns a private collection of fashion and costume, items from which were exhibited in Australia, Europe, Asia and America. The collection, kept in France, has been replenished for 30 years already and consists of more than 50 thousand exhibits from the 17th century to the present, among which are high fashion masterpieces created by the best ateliers of their era. A significant part of the collection is made up of photographs and paintings related to the history of fashion, and, in particular, to the history of the Russian diaspora.
The collection includes costumes that once belonged to Princess Maria Shcherbatova, Baroness Galina Delvig, Countess Jacqueline de Bogurdon, Countess Olga von Kreutz. In addition, wardrobe items of such Russian theater and film stars as Natalya Durova, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Galina Ulanova, were received as a gift.
The ballerina donated several unique items from her wardrobe to the collection, including:
Ensemble consisting of a chiton and overalls. Pierre Cardin Fashion House. Paris. 1973;
- An ensemble of printed silk trimmed with flounces. Pierre Cardin Fashion House. Paris. Late 1980s;
- Costume made of two-layer quilted silk "cosmos", presented to the ballerina personally by Coco Chanel.
These fragments of the wardrobe became exhibits of the exhibition Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain. From the wardrobe of the stars of the Soviet era, ”and also ended up in the illustrated catalog of the same name (ISBN 978-5-9903435-1-1), compiled by Alexander Vasiliev.
Vasiliev plans to create a Museum of historical costume in Russia, in which his collection would be open for permanent public access.
In 2011, Alexander Vasilyev established the first international interior design award. "Lilies of Alexander Vasiliev". The winners of the award are institutions in Russia and abroad that meet his high ideas about style. The winners are awarded a brand name - a handmade ceramic lily. Each lily has an individual number and an original passport, which guarantees its authenticity. Lilies for the interior, atmosphere, light, musical accompaniment and design details have already received establishments in Russia, Italy, France, Latvia, Lithuania and other European countries.
He was awarded non-state awards - the S. P. Diaghilev medal for the promotion of Russian art, the V. Nijinsky medal, the Patron Order, the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Twice winner of the "Tobab" award in Turkey. He was presented in the nomination "Fashion Legend" at the World Fashion Awards in 2010. In 2011, residents of the Samara region awarded Vasiliev the regional award "People's Recognition". In the same year, Vasiliev became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Author of three dozen books. His book "Beauty in Exile", published by the Slovo/Slovo publishing house, went through six reprints in Russian from 1998 to 2008, and in 2000 was published in New York in English. Vasiliev is the author of the book “Russian Fashion. 150 years in photographs” (also Slovo/Slovo publishing house, 2004), which presents over 2,000 photographs on the history of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet fashion from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.
Most of the books are illustrated with photographs from the author's collection.
On the pages of the book "Russian Interiors" Vasilyev recreated the decorations of Russian palaces, noble estates, merchant and petty-bourgeois houses, public interiors of Tsarist Russia.
Alexander Vasiliev's fortune
Alexander Vasiliev is a fairly wealthy person. He owns houses in France, Turkey and Lithuania.
He owns real estate in Europe and Russia. In all the apartments of the star, servants live, there are gardeners, and the rooms are furnished with antique furniture. His property and real estate is estimated, according to some sources, at one and a half million euros.
Alexander Vasiliev owns a house in the central part of France, the province of Auvergne, a house in Lithuania, apartments in Antalya, Moscow and Kaliningrad, on the Curonian Spit. In addition, on the terms of a lifetime annuity, he owns apartments in Paris, which cost half a million euros.
“In Paris, I have a three-room apartment. But it is not valuable in itself, but what is in it. Me, my dog, collections, ”said the fashion historian. Museums of the world are ready to fight for what is collected in Vasiliev's Parisian apartments. Everything is there - valuable exhibits: chandeliers, candlesticks, paintings in gilded frames, silver goblets, a mahogany bed, an oak table.
In the estate in Auvergne, consisting of three houses, Vasilyev, as a rule, spends the summer.
The house in Lithuania went to the TV presenter from his grandfather. The main value of the estate in the Baltic States is the old library, the nineteenth century bath and the luxurious garden. “The house was built in 1912. My cousin and cousin live on the top floor. They have three rooms with a separate entrance. I have seven rooms downstairs. The house has preserved furniture, an old stove, a lot of old things. I love it all. He restored everything himself, ”said Alexander Vasiliev.
About the apartment in Antalya, the fashion historian said that it was given to him as a fee.
Every home of Alexander Vasiliev has antiques: “I have a lot of paintings, two thousand paintings of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I can buy cheap. I have a gift to bring down the price, to explain to people that this is nonsense. I am not a millionaire, I am Vasiliev, ”he shared.
Alexander Vasiliev. Alone with everyone
Personal life of Alexander Vasiliev:
In 1982 he married a French woman. The marriage was fictitious, with the aim of leaving for France. Lasted five years.
He officially has no children of his own. According to Alexander Vasiliev, he has three goddaughters. He maintains constant communication with only one of them - Marfa Milovidova. He became the godfather of the girl at the request of her mother, classmate and old friend.
Marfa herself said: “I tell everyone that Alexander Vasilyev is my godfather, because I am very proud of him. He is an incredible person, he is my motivator in life. Alexander often gives me fashionable clothes. I have three brothers, and as a child I often imitated them, wore trousers, and my godfather taught me to dress femininely.
According to Alexander, he has already made a will. Part of his property will belong to the foundation he manages. The goddaughter Martha Milovidova is also mentioned in the document.
According to rumors, Alexander Vasiliev has an illegitimate child. This is indirectly confirmed by him. “You will learn everything from my memoirs, not everything can be told publicly,” Vasiliev snapped.
Alexander Vasiliev. secret in a million
Filmography of Alexander Vasiliev:
1990 - Russian ballet without Russia (documentary)
2007 - Soviet beauty. The fate of a fashion model (documentary)
2008 - Film about the film. Dog in the manger. Non-Soviet History (documentary)
2009 - Alla Larionova. The Tale of the Soviet Angel (documentary)
2012 - Lyudmila Gurchenko. How I Became a Goddess (documentary)
2012 - Goddesses of socialism (documentary)
2013 - Lapin's List. Forbidden stage (documentary)
2016 - Hero - fashion historian
Bibliography of Alexander Vasiliev:
1998 - Beauty in exile
2004 - Russian fashion. 150 years in pictures
2006 - European fashion. Three centuries. From the collection of A. Vasiliev
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 1. Russian beauties
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 2. Costumes of Diaghilev's "Russian Seasons"
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 3. Costumes of the Russian Imperial House
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 4. Stars of world silent cinema
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 5. Fashion and travel
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 6. Beach fashion
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 7. Wedding fashion
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 8. Russian beauties-2
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 9. Christmas Fashion
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 10. Children's masquerade
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 11. Russian dandies
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 12. Stars of the Stalin era
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 13. Our pets
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 14. Christian Dior
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 15. Furs and fashion
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 16
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 17. Costumes of the Russian theater of the XIX-XX centuries
2006-2012 - Carte Postale. Fashion history. Issue 18. Parisian fashion in the 1910s
2007 - Sketches about fashion and style
2008 - I'm in fashion today ...
2009 - The fate of fashion
2010 - Little ballerina: Confessions of a Russian emigrant (co-authored with Ksenia Tripolitova)
2010 - Russian Hollywood
2013 - Children's fashion of the Russian Empire
2013 - Paris-Moscow: long return
Alexander Vasiliev was born in Moscow into an intelligent theatrical family: his mother is an actress, and his father is a people's artist. So from childhood, the future luminary of Russian culture grew in an atmosphere of art and creativity. This is how the fashion historian himself recalls his childhood: “I am the son of a famous artist and actress, my grandfathers, great-grandfathers were educated and cultured people. I grew up among books, theatrical performances, painting - it educates, lays the core of future knowledge that you can get.
Alexander's childhood passed in the atmosphere of the theater, which immediately fascinated him: in the form of entertainment, the boy sewed costumes for dolls, and then the scenery in which he staged performances, according to his recollections, starting from the age of 12. Which naturally led to the fact that after school, Alexander entered the production department of the Moscow Art Theater School, and after graduation he began working as a costume designer in the theater on Malaya Bronnaya.
Everything seemed to come naturally. However, the subtle and vulnerable soul of the boy wanted more and better. As Alexander later said, while still a schoolboy, he promised himself that if there was no revolution in Russia in the 1980s, he would definitely leave the country. He kept his word and moved to Paris in the 1980s, marrying a French woman.
Few people know, but at first the young fashion designer had a hard time in the capital of fashion. The husband's wife refused to support, and he did not want to get a job as a teacher of the Russian language. Therefore, he soon fell into wild poverty: the future star had to sing Russian songs on the streets in order to somehow feed himself. Even the chair, in order to have something to sit on, had to be dug up in a landfill. Soon, however, life began to improve: Vasiliev began to receive orders for decorating various French theaters. In addition, he continued to actively educate himself: he graduated from the interior design department of large palaces at the Louvre School, and also constantly read books about fashion.
In 1994, Vasiliev drew up his lecture program, which received the approval of specialists. And life gained certainty: having translated his lectures into four languages, Alexander Vasilyev began to speak with them at universities and colleges in all corners of the world, which he still does with success.
At the same time, having gained success as a designer with a delicate taste, the Russian fashion guru became in demand as a decorator in various French theaters and festivals, such as Rond Pointe on the Champs-Elysées, Bastille Opera Studio, Luserner, Cartoucheri, Avignon Festival, Bale du Nord, Young Ballet of France and the Royal Opera of Versailles.
Well, in the 2000s, with all this professional baggage, the fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev already returned to his homeland and settled authoritatively here.
In 2000, he opened the Volga Seasons of Alexander Vasilyev festival in Samara.
In 2002, he began working as a presenter on the Culture channel; in 2003, he opened the Alexander Vasiliev Interiors design studio in Moscow, and in 2005 he opened a visiting fashion school, within which he began to take his students to the cultural capitals of the world. In addition, during these years, Alexander Vasiliev collaborated as a decorator with several Russian theaters, and also became famous as a collector - he is the owner of the world's largest collection of costumes from the Russian period.
The year 2009 can be considered a turning point in the fate of Alexander Vasiliev. This year he was invited to work as the host of the Fashion Sentence program on Channel One. And if until that time Vasiliev could be called popular in narrow circles, now he has gained nationwide popularity. So to speak, it brings culture and beauty to the masses. True, in the performance of Alexander, they - culture and beauty - do not always turn out to be kind: poor middle-aged Russian women who are lucky enough to become the heroines of the program, Alexander often does not hesitate, like schoolgirls, to teach, chastise and even humiliate. But what can you do: the show is like this - it imposes its own conditions and rules.
But, of course, it gives privileges: since 2013, Alexander Vasiliev has been the head of the Moscow Academy of Fashion at the Moscow Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting Ostankino.
As for the personal life of a TV star, he prefers to hide it from prying eyes, stating, however, that there are several beautiful women in his life, since polygamy is inherent in the nature of a man.
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- Alexander Vasiliev considers it his achievement that there are fewer perhydrol blondes in Russia, bare bellies and jeans strewn with rhinestones have gone out of fashion.
- Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev speaks seven languages perfectly, and traveled around the world three times, since he sincerely believes that it is unthinkable for a person to lock himself within some boundaries - there is too much to do.
- Vasilyev is the owner of one of the largest private collections of costumes from the Russian period. The collection is exhibited in Australia, Europe, Asia and America. The collection has been replenished for 30 years and consists of more than 15 thousand exhibits from the 17th century to the present. Among the exhibits are haute couture masterpieces created by fashion houses: Worth, Doucet, Drecoll, Lanvin, Chanel, Lucien Lelong, Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Balmain, Carven, Givenchy, Valentino, YSL, Carden, Courege, Paco Rabanne, Gaultier and others. Some of the costumes presented in the collection belonged to the most famous women of their time in the past: Princess Maria Shcherbatova, Baroness Galina Delvig, Countess Jacqueline de Bogurdon, Countess Olga von Kreutz. Many copies were received as a gift from the wardrobes of famous women - Maya Plisetskaya, Natalia Fateeva, Alla Demidova, Clara Luchko, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Lyudmila Zykina, Natalia Durova, Lyudmila Gurchenko and others.
Awards
Medal of S. P. Diaghilev for the promotion of Russian art
Medal of V. Nijinsky
Order "Maecenas"
Gold medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia
Tobab Award in Turkey
2011 - People's Recognition Award
2011 - honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts
2011 - established his own award "Lilies of Alexander Vasiliev"
Movies
Books
Beauty in Exile (1998)
Russian fashion. 150 years in photographs (2004)
European fashion from the collection of A. Vasiliev (2006)
A series of postcard books "Carte Postale":
Carte postal. Issue 1. Russian beauties
Carte postal. Issue 2. Costumes of Diaghilev's "Russian Seasons"
Carte postal. Issue 3. Costumes of the Russian Imperial House
Carte postal. Issue 4. Stars of world silent cinema
Carte Postale. Issue 5. Fashion and travel
Carte postal. Issue 6. Beach fashion
Carte postal. Issue 7. Wedding fashion
Carte postal. Issue 8. Russian beauties-2
Carte postal. Issue 9. Christmas Fashion
Carte postal. Issue 10. Children's masquerade
Carte postal. Issue 11. Russian dandies
Carte postal. Issue 12. Stars of the Stalin era
Carte Postale. Issue 13. Our pets
Carte postal. Issue 14. Christian Dior
I'm in fashion today ... (2008)
Etudes about fashion and style (M.: ANF, 2007)
The fate of fashion (M.: ANF, 2009)
Little Ballerina: Confessions of a Russian Emigrant (Moscow: ANF, 2010; co-authored with Ksenia Tripolitova)
Russian Hollywood (2010)
Paris-Moscow: Long Return (2013)
Albums
