FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, pt 1 (THE PET FANCLUB)

just realized i didn't even say goodbye before dusting off to moscow last week, sorry dudes
so daliah and i were invited to attend mercedes benz fashion week russia!
leaving vienna, lookin classy as always (god i love catwang photo app)

hello russian airport

hello russian beauty parlors

oh an hello for real, fancy mall supermarket real close to our amazing hotel metropol right in the city center

but of course we also wanted the real russian dining experience. we waited for another troublemaker to arrive and as soon as leni (paperboats.me) was there and the evil gal gang was complete we went for dinner

at a place that had all you need like mushroom chains

and a cosy fireplace

and salad-cake - consisting of layers of beetroot, potatoes, hering all other sorts of fun stuff

dumpling & borscht

another salad-cake closeup

blini pancakes with caviar!

and - oh yes - the first of many vodka shots!

next day went a littler further outside the city center to see the very real and the very unreal moscow. at a huge market, selling souvenirs and paintings and a lot of awesome trash

the ever growing gang, here with leni's friend and our guide for the day, alexey

(my new thing - wearing tracksuits, hell yeah)

eew

wow

i actually liked this one!

did this lady knit all those socks and mittens? we do not know. maybe the book she showed us about herself would have told us. if only we understood a word of russian.

on the search for food we found a lot of things that looked like food, sorta, but were definitely not edible sandwiches in foil

yesterday's fried goods

and last weeks pigs in blankets

later we had our first day at the mercedes benz fashionweek and were backstage starting to shoot our story for material girl's winter issue. that days's favourite was definitely designer ria keburia's collection

also really liked ester abner's show!

i started taking tons of video snippets for insta, expect millions of those pieces of art coming up

this was only the first evening and full day, so much more to follow this week!