Sex and fashion from the era of Diaghilev to the era of Madonna.What
tricks,
hidden and explicit, do we all resort to in order to please
the opposite sex?How did
changes in the perception of sex affect the development of
20th century fashion?What
canons of male and female beauty existed in
the last century?In his speeches,
Aleksander Vassiliev deals with
such delicate and at the same time
brutal topics as sex, eroticism and the relationship of the sexes. How
religion, philosophy, cultural and sexual revolutions, and the evolution of gender relations affect the
formation and development of fashion.What is
fashion in this context: a trick, a subterfuge, a temptation?How have
feminism and machoism of all times
influenced the development of fashion?Aleksander Vassiliev offers a
new look at fashion – the view of an
attentive, experienced historian through the
prism of the mores of twentieth-century society.May 22th, Cologne, Bürgerhaus VingstKöln, Kuthstraße 27, 51107 Köln, GermanyShow on mapShow: 20:00