In the New York of the twenties of the last centuryGertrude Vanderbilt Whitney knew. Heir to the king of American Railroads, she flashed at balls and in gossip columns, and simultaneously trained as a sculptor. Staying away from the money-bags, favored by bohemians in Greenwich Village, it creates itself, patronized artists etc. finally opened the Museum of Modern Art. Just like Dasha Zhukova!

A year ago the Whitney Museum, which has since becomeThe most important institution in the art world of America, moved to the new Mecca of New York fashionists - Mitneking-district. An ultra-modern building with a minimalist facade, lined with vertical lines, and a lot of exhibition halls was built by the starry Italian architect? Eenzo Piano. And the brand Max Mara, one of the sponsors of the museum, repeated these lines from the facade on a new Whitney bag.

This year bag reissued: Exotic flowers and leaves made embossed on skin color ivory, beat patterns to suit Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the portrait by John Sargent. Suit in oriental style was created, by the way, the Russian artist Leon Bakst, the exhibition which is now in the Pushkin Museum. Do not bag, and of the history of art of XX and XXI centuries!