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SLAVIC TROPHY WIFE

Writer: MALVIE Magazine
MALVIE Magazine
10 hours ago
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SLAVIC TROPHY WIFE is a fashion editorial photographed by Kseniya Kunitskaya for MALVIE Magazine, with model Irina Ruskina.


An Icon of Post-Soviet Glamour


An ironic exploration of post-Soviet pop culture and the extravagant aesthetics of the early 2010s.


Oversized fur coats, platinum wigs, unapologetic femininity and questionable luxury — a visual universe where glamour was excessive, beauty was theatrical and subtlety was never the point.


Somewhere between a pop-culture fantasy and a self-appointed icon, she plays with the familiar image of the trophy wife, turning it into an exaggerated performance of femininity, status and spectacle.


Provocative, self-aware and gloriously kitsch.


Because being understated was never part of the plan.


About SLAVIC TROPHY WIFE

SLAVIC TROPHY WIFE plays out on a white bed with a carved dark wood frame. Irina Ruskina wears a platinum bob wig with a fringe, an oversized striped brown fur coat that slips off her shoulders, a black lace bodysuit and fishnet stockings, her nails painted black and her lips glossy.


Kseniya Kunitskaya uses a direct, bright flash that flattens the white sheets and makes the fur glow, from close portraits with a heavy-lidded gaze to wide frames of the model sprawled across the bed or perched on the footboard, with one black and white frame that leans fully into the early-2010s excess the story celebrates.


Close portrait of Irina Ruskina in a platinum bob wig and a brown fur coat off the shoulders
Irina Ruskina perched on a carved wooden bed frame in a long striped fur coat and fishnet stockings
Irina Ruskina in a fur coat and black lace bodysuit by a dark wooden bedpost
Irina Ruskina lying across white sheets in a black lace bodysuit and fur coat, eyes half closed
Irina Ruskina curled in a fur coat against white pillows, platinum wig and dark eye makeup
Irina Ruskina wrapped in a fur coat on the bed, looking over her shoulder
Irina Ruskina reclining on white pillows in a black lace bodysuit, fur coat and fishnet stockings
Detail of a hand with black nails resting on a striped brown fur coat
Black and white frame of Irina Ruskina stretched across a bed, one leg raised in fishnet stockings
Irina Ruskina lying back on white pillows in a black lace top and fur coat, platinum wig
Irina Ruskina sitting on the bed in a fur coat and fishnet stockings, hand on her knee
Irina Ruskina on the edge of the bed in a fur coat and fishnets, platinum bob and fringe

SLAVIC TROPHY WIFE credits

Photographer: Kseniya Kunitskaya @kseniyakunitska

Model: Irina Ruskina @ira_ruskina

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