Victoria Donovan
Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies and the Director of the Centre for Global (Post)socialisms at the University of St. Andrews. She works at the intersection of heritage studies, urban history, visual anthropology, and the public humanities. Her current research, exploring entangled colonialisms and industrial extraction with a focus on the Ukrainian East, has resulted in a wide variety of outputs, from academic and non-fiction writing, exhibitions, archives, community workshops, to artistic practice.
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‘Fashion Show’ in Pokrovsk, photo by Mykola Bilokon
This image, taken by Mayak photojournalist Mykola Bilokon, shows a woman on a catwalk demonstrating some of the clothing manufactured by ‘Rainbow’ sewing factory in Krasnoarmeisk (today’s Pokrovsk), in the Donetsk region. The woman is dressed in a floral print, dagger-collared, button-down dress and woollen, belted, armless cardigan and wears a contemporary backcombed hairstyle and makeup. An audience made up of different generations of Pokrovsk residents watches the show. Their clothing and hairstyles also demonstrate the changing fashions of the 1970s and 1980s. While some women in their 40s and 50s (born in Stalinist 1930s and 1940s) wear knee-length, possibly homemade, patterned floral dresses and headscarves, some younger members of the audience wear...