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A Painter In The Kitchen

Aleksander Yourz, the chef of Odessa’s Bernardazzi restaurant, is bringing painting to his kitchen and creating a new culinary style known as “Gastropunk". A...

The Bessarabian Night Before Christmas

What is the first thing you need to know about the Christmas feast in Bessarabia? Despite the region’s multiculturalism, Bessarabian Christmas is mostly an...

Mititei: Small Heroes Of A Big Culinary Region

If you spend any amount of time traveling in Bessarabia you will definitely see this dish on almost every menu, alongside placintas, mamalyga and...

Kiev Fashion Days Dispatch: Day 1

This is the first of a series of dispatches by Maria Romanenko from Kiev Fashion Days. Each day, she will publish an account of...

Fashion Designer Masha Reva Returns To Making Art

The Odessa-born artist and fashion designer bears the famous last name of her father, the accomplished architect and sculptor Mikhail Reva. However, her breakout...

Celebrities Wear Fashion From Ukrainian Designers

Without a doubt, Ukrainian fashion and its designers are getting more and more attention worldwide. Celebrities start recognizing the talents of Ukrainian fashion designers. Only...

Kiev Fashion Days Dispatch: Day 2

Kiev Fashion Days Dispatch — Day 2: Cannabis And Inequality Photos by Katya Zolotuhkina This is the second of a series of dispatches by Maria Romanenko...

Paskal Fashion Brand on The Paris Fashion Week

This year's Paris Fashion Week was not the first to feature Odessa native Julie Pascal as a representative of Ukrainian fashion. The well-known Ukrainian designer...

“Decostumization”: Undressing The Soviet Past

In the 1980’s a group of Odessa artists set about debunking the Soviet ideology. Now, one of them continues the project and finds it...

Kyiv Fashion Dispatch: Number 3

This is the third in a series of dispatches by Maria Romanenko from Kiev Fashion Days. Each day, she will publish an account of...