SOFT POWER, SHARP LINES

She understands what most cannot: the right dress is not a decoration. It is armour, it is mood, it is a second skin pulled with intention. Up close, you notice the details first. The weight of the cloth, the precision of a seam, the way a collar falls just so. The pieces carry traces of the «Hermitage» collection – history distilled into form, past and present meeting at the shoulder, at the hem, in the fall of a sleeve.

by Luc Durant

 

“She does not follow fashion.

She inhabits it. And in doing so,

makes it entirely, unmistakably hers.”

 

 

Credits

Model: Alisa Lobanova
Photographer: Polina Bertrand
MUAH: Asya Yureva
Jackets: NEVA Brand, «Hermitage» collection