'Anna Karenina': Russian fashion
Photo credit: Handout | Lustrous brocade hints of old world Russian style in this modern-style Theia brocade dress with pleated skirt, $595; at select Saks Fifth Avenue stores and saks.com.
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Leo Tolstoy was a fashionista.
They don't teach you that in comparative lit. But just leaf through his 1870s masterpiece, "Anna Karenina," and you'll come across enough detail on rosettes and lace sleeves and velvet ("about all the rest there might be a doubt, but the velvet was delicious") you'd think he was a judge on "Project Runway."
So Tolstoy would perhaps be pleased with this...
