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Fashion behind the iron curtain

Published 18 Jul, 2012 09:30 | Updated 23 Jul, 2012 09:26

As strange as it may sound, it was not fashionable to be fashionable in the USSR. The Soviet Union dictated that people should wear simple clothes made of cheap, rudimentary materials that would better suit the working class. But there is always someone who wants to think – and dress – outside the box. Slava Zaitsev and Leka Mironova were among those people in the USSR. Find out about the past and future of the famous Russian designer and the top soviet model, only on RT.

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