All flags

For almost two weeks, fashionistas of the whole world are closely watching the cultural life of the capital. Now it will always be like this: Moscow has been included in the “large seven” of the hot spots of the cult British magazine Dazed & confused. Rather, his new Satellite Voices project.

Paris, Moscow, Rome, Shanghai, Munich, Dubai, Santiago - seven megacities that Satellite Voices equalized in their news stream. On the main page, our finalists “Innovations” hang near Italian comic champions and Chinese promoters. Street and fashion photographers, amateur documentary, models, cultural graphomaniacs from seven ends of the world; All this resembles one large English -language blog. So it, in essence, is. Satellite Voices is an international collective diary with an unobvious, but also non -banal selection of characters and plots. Everything is fractional, chopped, imperative. Notes on places - in format a little longer than the message on Facebook. "MDF is the main thing in Moscow from the photo." "The Fashion Museum in Santiago is a world -class institution." The fact that Russian newspapers distinguish entire stripes is said, it is said by a tongue twister: “Go there. Here - go. " There is no time for the rest; In addition to Chile, there is also China except Germany - Emirates.

All this is important primarily because even in the DAZED & ConFUSED site project, there is so much electricity inherited from the “maternal” magazine that in its sparkle, ordinary trips to “Vincuration” acquire some progressive globalist charm. The Moscow hipsters managed what once did not work out with the Soviet jazzmen: they recognized the world (even with an advance) that their kung fu is no worse than others. In Paris, they go to Richard Prince, and in Moscow on "I love P." Then everyone changes places. We were finally accepted into the club (if someone was still worried), they agreed that in Russia there is at least one entry cultural and fashionable city, for which it is not a shame for European friends.

Nevertheless, this gesture of acceptance would be even more joyful if not for a small detail. Materials in Satellite Voices are released in English, with the expectation that the inhabitants of any metropolis, whether they were talking in Spanish or Chinese, knew that at that moment there was a scraping. So, in the London edition they believe that in the world there are enough people who may be interesting to Moscow. However, getting into it from the outside is still not easy. The Russian visa is expensive, and it is even more difficult to get it to a European than a Russian to go to Europe. On the other hand, if a stream of people who are more interested in more are suddenly rushed to us than a tender -eyed, they can be somewhat disappointed with a non -compliance with the result of their expectations and efforts spent. You can get fun and shoot on a scrap, in general, everywhere, but with an alternative fashion industry (and Dazed & Confusion-first of all, fashion magazine) and generally not very tasteful.

We assume that the very appearance of the new international media stimulates Russian young designers (as well as artists and boaters) and someone else will be found in the country except Goshi Rubchinsky and Ukrainian Vladimir Podolyan , about which Satellite Voices have already written.

So it is better for ours to get together, especially since the potential competitor is already breathing in the DAZED & ConfUSED project. Vice magazine promises to start in Russia this spring. Vice - an publication that supports all stereotypes about our country with pleasure and will not be almond with young mane. They will come with the slogan “Russia - a forge of whores”, and break this template in the eyes of potential tourists and in our own heads a recent entry into the hipster international will not help.