ANNOUNCEMENT: my new book TORN: FASHION AND POSTMODERNISM can be preordered on Amazon in the US / UK / EU, and on Barnes & Noble, Indigo in Canada, and Waterstones in the UK.

I was born in the USSR. At the age of fifteen I came to New York, where I still live, to pursue the American dream.

It took ten years of soulless Wall St. existence for me to realize that the dream sucks. I said goodbye to all that and found my passion in writing about fashion and culture.

In 2006 I created an independent fashion media platform, StyleZeitgeist, which includes a magazine and a podcast devoted to looking at fashion and culture with a critical eye. In 2023 I also launched the StyleZeitgeist Academy, an online educational institution.

I’ve contributed articles to the New York Times, the Financial Times, T Magazine China, Air Mail, the Business of Fashion, 032c, Arena Homme +, and Highsnobiety, among others. These include profiles, interviews, opinion pieces, cultural observations, as well as exhibition and book reviews.

I am the author of TORN: FASHION AND POSTMODERNISM, a book of cultural criticism about fashion. I have also edited several other books, Stone Island: Storia with Rizzoli and Deborah Turbeville: Comme des Garçons with IDEA, and have contributed to a bunch more (the full list is in the “Books” section).

I have taught criticism and fashion writing at Parsons The New School for Design and have participated in fashion conferences around the world.

Feel free to get in touch if you have a cool project you’d like to discuss. I am open to collaboration.