Celebrating at #aubergedusoleil today. Alex and I met on November 5, 2005. Ten years ago, at a birthday party of Anna Dvornikova who as it turned out has plotted it all. I still remember the moment our eyes met for the first time. She bossed me upstairs to iron the tablecloth (ten years later she still bosses ppl around and has her sheets and table clothes ironed 😂!) and warned there is her first guest taking a shower.. Emmm… Excuse me? Well, the guest kindly asked to use the shower after biking to-from work on Saturday from the San Francisco bound Caltrain. A typical Silicon Valley thing. I was ironing the table cloth and dying of curiosity, what such guest might look like. As the bathroom door clanked our eyes locked… Thank you, Anna from all four of us. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Спасибо, Анька, мы очень счастливы. Я так лиЧно очень. 😃.

Nov. 05, 2015

Celebrating at #aubergedusoleil today. Alex and I met on November 5, 2005. Ten years ago, at a birthday party of Anna Dvornikova who as it turned out has plotted it all. I still remember the moment our eyes met for the first time. She bossed me upstairs to iron the tablecloth (ten years later she still bosses ppl around and has her sheets and table clothes ironed 😂!) and warned there is her first guest taking a shower.. Emmm… Excuse me? Well, the guest kindly asked to use the shower after biking to-from work on Saturday from the San Francisco bound Caltrain. A typical Silicon Valley thing. I was ironing the table cloth and dying of curiosity, what such guest might look like. As the bathroom door clanked our eyes locked… Thank you, Anna from all four of us. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Спасибо, Анька, мы очень счастливы. Я так лиЧно очень. 😃.

Years ago, when I was a budding stylist, I was blessed with an online fellow-Russian friend, a garment construction industry old-timer, who decided I was worthy of gaining her impressive expertise. One of the things I remember catching right away was the jargon she mentioned they used in the old days to describe legs. Basically, she […]