52 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestStory of the rise of a girl from proverbial humble beginnings to top Russian fashion model during Cold War-era USSR.
Costume
Period-accurate Soviet fashion that slaps harder than it should.
Production
Moscow recreated with bleak, beautiful authenticity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 'Red Queen' scandal where Soviet models were simultaneously propaganda tools and suspected spies. The fashion underground in 1980s Moscow was genuinely dangerous.
Ksenia Lukyanichkova trained for six months in period-appropriate runway walks after producers discovered modern models moved too 'free' for 1980s Soviet constraints.
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