Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #TheOptimists
Most recents (1)
Wow, check out the inaugural issue of Vogue Poland. You could write a damn dissertation on this cover. So here's a short one, in a few tweets. 
In 1998, when Vogue came to Russia, Soviet chic was the last aesthetic anyone wanted to see -- the whole point was to shed this kind of hard dour grayness and Be Like The West; now, 26 years later (29 for Poland), there's worldwide hunger for precisely this kind of grayness.
This cover isn't "nostalgic" — it's using Soviet-ness as a shortcut to a sense of danger and stakes; and don't forget that, to the Polish eye, everything but the women on this cover belongs to a foreign occupying power. (And the photographer is, ahem, German — Juergen Teller).
