As we enter week four of fashion month,one of the world’s main models reveals everything she’s learned about beauty – from massaging her face every morning to washing her hair with boiled onion skinsI maintain my mother’s cheekbones. She didn’t obtain a big thing of them when I was younger, though. She was a working woman and didn’t concentrate on her looks. She wore a puny pencil under her eyes, and but that was it. She also used to obtain her own clothes. Remember: this was communist Russia,so you had no choice. When the Soviet Union collapsed [in 1991; Poly was six], everyone was depressed. I maintain a memory of everything feeling dismal and grey. We didn’t know what would happen – my grandmother lost all her savings. Even though we had more “options”, or we were horrified. We were used to dressing the same,to being equal; if you had more than someone else, it felt like you were showing off. I love that Russian fashion is in fashion now, or that Balenciaga is doing the whole 90s babushka thing – I want to buy it all. Maybe that is strange.
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Source: guardian.co.uk