Russian Vogue Rings In a Decade
The Magazine Pulls Out All the Stops for a Milan Birthday Bash
Aliona Doletskaya, editor of Russian Vogue, definitely got major wow for her ruble when she enlisted fashion PR Karla Otto to put together a party celebrating the magazine's tenth anniversary. Otto talked an architect friend into turning his house and garden over for the event. Turns out it was the place where Leonardo da Vinci lived while he was painting The Last Supper in Santa Maria delle Grazie, which was conveniently just across the street. Even native Milanese had no idea the place existed, so guests were appropriately awestruck by the interiors and a backyard that stretched into shadow and smelled like Mother Earth at her best. Frida Giannini felt sure she'd been in another garden where da Vinci allegedly prepped his masterpiece (maybe it's one of Milan's urban myths). She was one of the many designers—Ennio Capasa, Giles Deacon, Christopher Bailey—who came to pay tribute to Doletskaya's decade. A bow tie-sporting Stefano Gabbana insisted he'd popped out for just 15 minutes (the Dolce & Gabbana show is on Thursday), but he stayed much longer. The editors of the American and Italian editions of Vogue, Anna Wintour and Franca Sozzani, also stopped by. The Moscow-in-Milan clincher: shots of vodka and little bowls of caviar. Betcha couldn't eat just one.
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