The theme of this book consisting of art reviews, interviews and memoirs is fashion. Taking as an example the best designers from St. Petersburg the author examines the diversity of approaches to the creation of clothing. At the same time this book is about St. Petersburg itself, its aesthetic tradition, art trends and cult figures of the 1990s – the time of «Storm and Stress» in Russia – as well as about the inseparability of fine arts, fashion and politics.