Escaped from Russian fashion historian Vasiliev did not run away — he just "ended up in Paris"

Fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev mocks Russians who did not keep track of his movements in space. And he, in fact, escaped back in 1982.

"On the day SMO started, I found myself in Paris. I ran away back in 1982, you just didn't know it or missed it," Vasiliev said with a condescending smile in an interview with the LSM+ YouTube channel.

On the same day, the "Fashion Verdict" program was also closed as an entertainment project. No one warned Vasiliev, when he called the editorial office, they promised him that "the program would be resumed very, very soon."

"How? Well, did he fly from Paris on "A fashionable verdict"?"... Yes, airplanes flew. And then the planes stopped," the fashion expert explains his escape.

Then all trips to Russia began to seem unthinkably difficult to him, "everything became expensive and everything became very difficult."

As reported by EADaily, in March 2022, Vasiliev issued a sharp condemnation of the special military operation. His "Frank Letter" is still available on the portal of the City Hall of Visaginas (Lithuania). This performance was required for the establishment of the Alexander Vasiliev Fashion Museum in the city.

Despite the harsh anti-Russian statements, until recently the fashion historian managed to earn in Russia. At the end of September last year, Vasiliev invited a river cruise to the cities of the Volga region with a mandatory visit to Moscow "Delightful Samara" from September 21 to 27. On September 28, an enterprising historical fashionista invited an etiquette breakfast with him personally in a Moscow restaurant on Kaluga Square, the price of an exquisite event for those who wish is 15 thousand rubles. In August and July, Vasiliev gave lectures in the format of a film club on the theme of the film "Silk Stockings".

In December 2023, Vasiliev appeared in one of the classrooms of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the video that has spread, Vasiliev instructs the students of the newly opened "unique" course, as stated on the MSU portal, "Theory and Fashion Industry". In addition, on December 1, the presentation of the fashion historian's book "Treasures of the Nomad" took place at the Non-fiction Intellectual Literature Fair that opened a year earlier in Moscow. Paris and beyond everywhere." MSU later said that the fashion expert would work for them until December 31, 2023. The university did not extend the cooperation.