If murder was fashion: Presentation IRFÉ the clothing brand with a Russian luxury murderous past ...
During the moneyed Eastern Store,chanel 2.55 reissu Chelsea and Palm Beach in the Urals, you can find a shop IRFÉ. Luxury since 2008 Russia's clothing label based in Paris - "fluid architecture intelligently" praised by Alexa Chung as - has his kingdom and is now sold in 80 stores around the world, with its owner and director of creation, former Belarusian Olga Sorokina model while, often broken at parties in Cannes, Milan, Paris, Moscow and Los Angeles Academy.
It describes the appearance of the signature IRFÉ as "aristocratic romance." Thin body at the lower part of the body, typically offset by a large upper half. The complex style of Faberge jewelery, traditional embroidery, firebirds and double eagles - Eagles - The designs are inspired by the Russian ballet, art and culture and revised with a 'roll' modern 'Baroque' n feel.
It is a look that appeals to young wealthy Muscovites seeking a closer relationship with the pre-communist Russia heritage. The brand itself was born founded in the 1920s by one of the most prestigious and well-known noble families of the country at the end of this period.
Irina, Princess of Russia, was the beautiful niece of the last Tsar and her handsome husband Felix Yusupov, once the richest man in Russia, was the aristocratic playboy who murdered the peasant mystic Rasputin. In exile after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the couple started on a dress design company in Paris (the first two letters of their names form the title).
IRFÉ was a hit with American and British customers in Paris during the Roaring Twenties, when fashion took its lead from Coco Chanel. Bettors flocked IRFÉ watch a murderer in the eyes and buy clothes designed and modeled by a princess. They wanted to know how Felix and other accomplices, including his friend, the Grand Duke Dimitri, Rasputin had the basement of his palace in St. Petersburg drew, in the vain hope that by killing unpopular favorite of the Empress could save Russian Revolution. Felix would with details on how they navigated Rasputin with wine laced with cyanide and then shot him spoil from drowning in the river Neva. The penalty of inefficiency Tsar was easy to send out of town.
Customers were IRFÉ (too young to understand the word homosexuality) also by the woman of the murderer, the charming transvestite than 18 innocent fascinated married. But those hoping for tears of a princess was left disappointed in the many photos of Irina in IRFÉ designs or outside with her husband, her expression is always calm.
People still enjoy the story behind the label, but in a country where the richest citizens take care of themselves even be (a fate that many oligarchs befell in contradiction with the modern Kremlin) in exile, c is the story of Irina, who resonates .
Not for Youth Irina suggested he would prove as adaptable. Until she married Felix, she was desperately shy. Romanov clan to which he belongs, from the large, red-faced and repressive Alexander III dominates. His son, the decision of Nicolas II was a timid soul, but always tries to crack the whip of the autocrat and banished all the parents who stood up for him, or married a non-royal. Members of the Romanov family blistering - but in silence. As one observer noted, "They spoke six languages, but no one said anything."
Irina family were among the prisoners. She spent her early youth in the south of France after his father was killed with his imperial brother-in-law. After six years, the family, and painful shyness Irina came even from among its closest related language. So surprised everyone when in 1913, she suddenly announced that she the scandalous Felix Yusupov, eight years older than she wanted to marry, they once met as a child, and then last until his return at Oxford.
The rich, blue blood Felix did not know the meaning of fear. Rather than engage in the army, he took opium dens, clubs and orgies. As a child he loved to dress up - and continue into adulthood. He began singing in nightclubs wearing fabulous jewelry from his mother.
But Felix was attracted by a dazzling beauty and shyness Irina. "I was sure it was my fate, he wrote. He confessed his love for her past. He said in his memoirs later she forgave him.chanel 2.55 reissue bag
Not surprisingly, parents Irina breathed a sigh of relief when a friend of Grand Duke Dmitri Felix (in contrast to Felix, a senior Royal, an Olympic athlete and a dashing soldier) Irina also proposed. But she insisted, Felix. The Tsar gave way and they were married before the First World War broke out. They had a daughter - also known as Irina but Dad - in 1915.