olha pryymak

Great place to get the feel of end XVIII Century Kyiv! Full of artifacts, old photos and all kinds of trinkets, well designed and presented. They even have their catalogue published soon, the pleasant cashier lady informed us.

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lately had to get my hair cut – looked to recommendations, since as we already learned – highly priced does not mean well done.. Several phone calls brought me to Obolon to discover a decent salon.. Anyway, so striking is how uniform the haircuts are for people belonging to same social circles: bleached white – looks more beached if worn with all white – on “devushka”s- frizzed “zavyvka” on middle aged middle class; and long beautiful tresses, sometimes braided – on interesting-looking chicks around town. All other haircut types are not so culturally prominent. You see plenty of globally fashionable layers, plenty of highlights, occasional asymmetrical cuts and even goth-looking black dos..

The curious street Passage now turners into what it was intended to be by it’s architect Horodetskyi- an open-air street lined with posh shops. Horodetsky hiself sits in bronze, sipping coffee on a side. He modelled the street by Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emmanuel. Today here came Gucci, Bally, Burberry, etc, (more…)