UNRAVELLING RUSSIA

Posted on 2011-10-24

It’s time for a trans-Siberian fling with that grand old dame Russia; a vast enigmatic land teeming with contradictions. Like a babushka doll, it’s all about peeling back the layers of history and preconception to find a country bursting with imagination and a special kind of energy all coiled up like a spring.

The country – more famously known for its mushroom-shaped palaces, billionaires, ballets and a penchant for vodka – is currently buzzing with creative-types as Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia kicks off (21 – 25 October) kicks off with the likes of designer Aleksandra Zaguzova showing the world what the contemporary Muscovites are up to.

But it’s not all about Moscow, just down the road in St. Petersburg, the cosmopolitan crowd are breathing a new bohemian life into the city’s baroque architecture and with the design-forward bunch at W Hotels pitching up its latest new opening in the city, W St. Petersburg – it’s putting this Tsar city firmly on the sartorialist’s map. Time to go east.

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