When another Elvira Zhemchuzhnaya (and why do they have such stupid pseudonyms?) in some fashion community, using overexposed or darkened photos, determines color types for free - this is funny and amusing, but when a certain, fairly well-known and even popular stylist, takes $ 230 for a consultation (or 12 thousand rubles) and, ultimately, does not provide any information - this, sorry, is beyond.
Fortunately, the money was returned, but the whole story seemed so strange to me that I decided to tell it to a wide range of readers. Perhaps you will someday want to use the services of stylist Roman Medny.

My friend contacted Roman Medny. I do not share the opinion that male stylists are better at their profession than their female counterparts, but I have often observed how male hairdressers made a good career in high-class salons, even without knowing how to properly hold scissors! However, the choice of a friend is her business, she shared the news with me, and we began to wait for the appointed date.

On day X, a friend wrote, saying that the Skype conversation took place. To the question: "How did it go?" she half-heartedly reported that Roman had rescheduled the meeting and she had to get up at three in the morning.

A few days later, a friend sent me a file with text and several sets that the stylist sent her.

I ran through the first sentences with my eyes and answered: “why are there so many errors in the text?”, and then, apparently, she broke through:

Yes, you're kidding, right? Is that the only thing that bothers you?
8 sets and two and a half sheets of descriptions for them for $230?
- Okay, well, what did he promise you? What did you agree on?
- I asked him about my type of figure, what styles specifically suit me, I expected a decent debriefing for 230 bucks, to be honest. “These dresses suit you, these dresses don’t suit you, this collar suits you, but this one doesn’t suit you, the length of the trousers is just this” ...What did I get? 8 pictures from polyvor??!!!

However, in order to look at the situation from different angles, I went to the website of Roman Medny and got acquainted with what the stylist himself calls “Consultation”.

Screenshots from Roman Medny's website.

And in addition, having removed Roman’s indignation at the dishonesty of his colleagues from the text, the bottom line is the following:

What is a stylist's consultation performed by Roman Medny?

1. Color scheme: a palette of colors is drawn up, it is explained how they should be served.
2. Recommendations for makeup and hair.
3. Analysis of the features of the figure.
4. Drawing up a basic wardrobe of 15-20 items or the same sets.

Those. stylist Roman Medny, having received a 100% prepayment ($130 before the Skype meeting and $100 immediately after it), did not complete even half of the paid work!

However, everything happens in life (to be honest, it was hardly assumed that a well-known stylist would shamelessly throw his clients!), Roman could mix something up, send the wrong documents or attach only part of the files, well, it happens! Based on this, a friend wrote Roman a letter with the following content:

Hello Roman.
Thank you.
Several questions arose about the consultation itself and the text.

1. I would like to replace slip-ons with sneakers, sneakers. I don't really like slip-ons.
2. The idea with a white backpack does not leave me :) I already have one backpack in the boho style .. I really like the chosen styles: sport chic and boho.
3. Still, I am tormented by the question about the inverted triangle (type of figure) and what to do with it, what things suit me and which do not, because I am not quite a standard inverted triangle and recommendations from the Internet do not suit me. Could you open this question?
4. What about our skype? I understand correctly that this is not the whole consultation?

There was no response to this letter. At the same time, Comrade Medny lived in social networks, posted photos on Instagram, that is, he was very active on the Internet!

Why not answer the client? Why, if you're so busy, why not just set a date when you can write to her? In the end, she fulfilled her obligations under the contract, but you didn’t!

Three days later, a friend sent a letter to Medny in a different tone, where she gradually painted what was declared as a stylist's consultation (information was taken from Medny's website), what she was promised and what she eventually received, offering three options for the development of events:
(published with the permission of the author)

1. You do anew with the provision in full of all the services you provide "Individual Consultation". Which I’m no longer really interested in, because I have no desire to communicate with a person who simply throws people away.

2. You return to me my money paid for a service that I did not receive.
The most acceptable option for me and for you, presumably, too.

3. I cover our "communication" publicly in all the runet fashion platforms known to me, and it is possible that the case will go to court.

And what do you think? Roman Medny replied immediately! And twice!

(I know that publishing personal correspondence is not comme il faut, but this situation is out of the ethical norms from the very beginning, besides, the actions of the stylist are very similar to a fraud scheme, and such issues simply cannot be hushed up!)

"Good morning!
It will be easier for me to get my money back. As far as I remember, our first call with you came from a dark room with a bad camera, and a bad connection. Technically, to provide a service by asking each phrase again is, to put it mildly, uncomfortable. And I don't need a client who thinks that for $230 he bought me into slavery without the right to holidays and weekends. From correspondence with Roman Medny.

No apologies for the silence and the wasted time or nerves of the client, no surprise that the friend received only part of the presentation, because anything could have happened! I assumed that when sending Roman or his assistant managed to confuse the address or folder with files, I didn’t see anything strange in the fact that not all files were attached to the letter, etc., but Roman did not show the slightest doubt about the integrity of the received material ! Moreover, he expressed dissatisfaction with the lighting and sound during a Skype chat!

If the terms of the consultation ruled out the possibility of high-quality fulfillment of the contract, especially on prepayment, why did he not tell the client about this? Why didn't you reschedule the meeting to a more favorable time of day for work? Why, in the end, did not return the money if there was no opportunity to meet again?

Roman Medny wrote literally the following in a letter:

It is not my fault that by paying me $230 you received only a quarter of the promised consultation and silence in response to your letters, but you are to blame, because the light and sound were bad and I felt discomfort!

What is it, in general, is it? And if the girlfriend kept silent and did not understand? Until recently, I thought that all this was some kind of mistake, but after reading Roman’s answer, which he sent to his girlfriend twice a day (!!!), I stopped doubting. The only thing I wanted to clarify, but how old is the boy?

What happened looks extremely bad, like a typical fraud scheme:

The stylist takes the first deposit ($130)
- Skype calls, asks questions, takes time out
- The client, to celebrate, sends the second part of the deposit ($ 100), expecting, at a minimum, a heavy work for himself beloved
- and in the end he gets 8 sets and a description for them. If the client is not quick or little aware of the activities of stylists, he may well swallow 8 sets for granted.
- Profit!

By the way, when a friend was just agreeing on a consultation, she asked how many sheets the analysis would contain, how much information the stylist would provide for $230? To which Roman replied something like this: “if you are interested in the number of sheets, then this is not for me!”.
Part of the reaction is understandable, but on the Medny website, in the descriptions of consultations, the following thought runs like a red thread: “I don’t need a client who is not ready to be led.”

Most creative professions have some kind of standards, after which a person can be considered suitable or not suitable for the chosen activity. It is realistic to get the title of the best in your profession if you participate in competitions and take places there, for example, hairdressers do not spin multi-colored “shells” at the Championships because it is fashionable or stylish, but because this is an indicator of mastery of the profession: hair needs to be dyed to the canvas in several colors and lay them in a certain way. It's like a ballet class, like Bach's violin partitas, like an essay...

Stylists have no such standards, and this gives them a huge field for activity. Often, very dubious activities.

Photo: screenshots from Roman Medny's website medny.ru, photo of hairdressing works nevberega.ru
Sets and analysis text provided by Roman Medny's client

Detailed information about Roman Medny. Biography, education, coaching activity of a stylist.

Roman Copper has been engaged in fashion and style for 10 years, despite his rather young age, he has established himself as a true professional in his field. But initially, the guy, of course, did not think that he would associate himself with the fashion industry, although this topic was always interesting to him. In order to learn more about this author and his talent, you need to know some points of his biography.

Stylist Roman Medny was born on January 25, 1986 in Kyiv. He received his higher education at the Donetsk National University at the Faculty of Philology (Russian language and literature). In 2005, Roma moved to St. Petersburg, began working as an editor-in-chief at the Hotel and Restaurant Business magazine, while collaborating with the Restaurant Vedomosti magazine, as well as with TimeOut.Petersburg and Sobaka.ru, for which he wrote about fashion and style.

Roman Medny in 2007 decides to move to Moscow. There, as an author, he collaborates with the Afisha and L`Officiel magazines. Since 2008, he began to practice individual consulting and shopping support, and in 2009 he took Marangoni courses in the specialty "Fashion Styling". In 2011, the aspiring stylist studied make-up at the Make-Up Atelier courses and later completed an internship in Paris at the Make Up For Ever training center.

So since 2011, Roman begins active coaching. The stylist conducts trainings in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Vladivostok, Kaliningrad and others. Roman Medny's master class at the InterCharm exhibition gathers about a hundred participants. The main feature of his master classes and trainings is the complex work with the client, going beyond the limits of only one’s own area (hairstyles, makeup, clothes), a complex impact on the client through the formation of a certain aesthetic environment that would encourage the client to actively work on his image.

In 2011 style icon Roman Medny with a group of his clients went to Venice for the Biennale of Contemporary Art to conduct an experimental course "Contemporary Art and Fashion". This practice began to be repeated regularly. Working on the image of the client, Roma creates a lifestyle in which the client feels as comfortable as possible and is ready for change.

The stylist has become a real expert in Life Style Management, he wrote on the pages of such publications as: Russian Reporter, Gazeta.Ru, Expert, etc. Forbes.Russia magazine named Roman one of the best shopping support specialists. Since 2012, Roman began to host a TV program on the Ukrainian STB channel, in which he teaches viewers the basics of good taste. In its temporary segment, the program became the most popular on Ukrainian television.

In January 2013, the guy takes part in the preparation of a training for the management of Italian fashion houses commissioned by the Italian Fashion Chamber, and since the same year he has been collaborating with Forbes.Ukraine. In 2014, Roma released a capsule collection of accessories in collaboration with AGE.

As you can see, answering the question "who is Roman Medny", it can be said that stylist Roman Medny didn't show up from anywhere. This specialist in style and fashion is now in great demand, but he has worked hard and continues to work to ensure that his many readers and readers, spectators and spectators look their best. He knows everything about body types, contrast, color combinations, features of the male and female wardrobe, and knows what to do with it all.

How to study with Roman Medny?

In addition to the fact that the stylist conducts live workshops and trainings in different cities, he decided to conduct style training online and remotely. So, now anyone who cannot attend live trainings can take Roman Medny's courses at any time and in any place convenient for you. Not every person has the opportunity to come to Moscow, Kyiv or another city for personal training or a consultation with a stylist. And everyone can learn style, fashion and how to dress properly! Remotely from the comfort of your own home!

The stylist has a large number of books and courses in video format, which are very popular, not only among women, but also among men. Men also want to look and dress beautifully and stylishly, and Roman helps them a lot in this! For example, video course "Festive women's wardrobe", video course "Festive men's wardrobe", video training "Men's style from A to Z", video course "Hairstyle in the image", video course "Rules of women's tights" and many others. There are separate courses on seasonal wardrobes and style trends. There is also material on the topic of how to become a stylist - video course "How to become a stylist and make money doing what you love."

These and many other courses and materials can be found , as well as on the blog, YouTube channel of this stylist. He has a huge number of useful videos, articles, on the basics of style, on the latest trends, on the current novelties of the season, on "smart style", etc. In addition, freely available books by Roman Medny: Book "Women's Basic Wardrobe" And book "5 steps to the image of a successful man." The books are free and can be downloaded from the author's website.

Why is the stylist so popular? What are his clients saying? Are there any reviews?

Roman Medny assures his clients that individual style and good taste are not some abstract concepts that only the elite can comprehend. Clothing is a reflection of a person's lifestyle and way of thinking, and taste manifests itself when all this is in harmony. From his experience, the stylist realized that there are no people without taste, there are those who simply have not learned to express themselves in clothes, there are lazy people.

Most stylists look primarily at appearance, perceiving the client as a mannequin that needs to be dressed up. And Roman thinks about a person, striving to find something that will make him strive for perfection, and gives the knowledge that is necessary to walk this path. It is this approach that makes the stylist Medny so popular and famous. His clients are delighted with him and his work. That is why there are a lot of positive feedback about Roman Medny and thanks to him.

If you want to get acquainted with the work and approach of this stylist, then you can always use his free materials to get started. Download the books we talked about above. Also study video seminar "Fashion trends of the season spring-summer 2018", video seminar "The Art of restyling", video-seminar "Types and basic methods of compiling images", favorites of the online program "Logic of Style". These materials can be downloaded and studied for free also on the stylist's website. In general, the official website of Roman Medny has everything you need for transformation!

So, if you have a desire to look fashionable and stylish, while not losing yourself and your image, then Roman Medny will teach you to express your thoughts and lifestyle not only with the help of a wardrobe, but also with the help of accessories, hairstyles, makeup, etc. d. The stylist will tell you in his videos, courses and trainings how not only to dress beautifully, but also to find harmony between your inner state and appearance, to please people and be the object of their admiration.

When I first saw Alexander Vasiliev live, it seemed to me that now, like Faina Ranevskaya in the famous film, he would begin to take off all these scarves and vests and offer them for sale! Talking about how wonderful the works of French tailors are and what an indispensable thing in the wardrobe of every lady is a scarf.

And in the future, meeting Vasiliev at various events, I could not get rid of the allusion with the rack of accessories in the clothing store. And this despite the fact that San Sanych promotes a sense of proportion and ridicules the love of excess in Russian taste. If this, in his understanding, is not overkill, then I'm scared to imagine what kind of provincial beauties he talks about in numerous interviews!

Taste sometimes betrays some figures of fashion. All living people. In the case of Vasiliev, I tried to find his young photographs, where they were still in harmony with taste, but the most adequate ones concern the infantile period.

Already from adolescence, hell begins.

In principle, one can understand - the young man escaped from the Soviet dullness to brilliant Paris. At the same time, he was freed from parental care. When I escaped to glamorous Moscow, I also suffered such garbage that now it’s not something to be ashamed to remember - it’s just ridiculous. But over time, it had to pass. The case with Vasiliev is difficult - it only got worse. Unless a handbag from Louis Vuittone was added.

And if Vasilyev with Good Taste had any kind of relationship, then it looks more like a fictitious marriage. They certainly never slept in the same room!

You can talk for a long time about the fact that he is a public face and creates a recognizable image, but such reasoning would be appropriate if we were not talking about banal petty crap like wrinkled pants and improperly selected shoes.

I like to say “When the look fails, the stylist adds a scarf.” Here, try to remove the scarf from the following image and pay attention to warm socks in combination with velvet shoes and jeans.

All this in total takes Alexander Vasilyev far beyond the limits of good taste. You can’t even consider him as a trendsetter, because only crazy old women and Tatyana Mikhalkova can copy it.

If we consider Vasiliev's style, then only in the context of the style of Alexander Peskov and Sergei Penkin. They also consider themselves irresistible, elevating bad taste and vulgarity to the rank of extravagance. Well, what good taste is it for a little fat man to put on a lady's hat ?!

There are, of course, Vasiliev's glimpses, but these are the cases when other people dressed him. At the same time, tracing the image of Alber Elbaz. Compare.

The initial data are similar, but Elbaz, unlike Vasiliev, has an absolute taste. He feels beauty whatever. His collections are beautiful, and he himself does not allow crap in a suit.

But Vasiliev, when he begins to bring something of his own into this image, turns into a flower bed on legs.

Summarizing. Where megalomania comes, good taste does not live. Vasiliev's first books are excellent, then he worked, later, when fame came, he began to churn out fashion books one after another, while the editing is so bad that fragments are repeated even within the same book. Anyone who has read one book by contemporary Alexander Vasiliev has read them all. And Vasiliev is lying when he says that he is the only such researcher of Russian fashion. Of the recent examples, at least the huge work of Christine Ruan "The New Dress of the Empire", published in Russia last year, is worth it. Unlike Vasiliev, who simply lists 20 names in a row, she gives interesting and detailed explanations, making reading interesting. Vasilva's "Beauty in Exile" is more watched than read. And Vasiliev - says more than it is.

And to still be true to the genre, a couple of epic fails.

"I'm husking seeds with Plisetskaya." If the photo was modern, it would have a place in Freak School for a senseless and merciless photoshop. Someone molds himself to Putin, someone to Plisetskaya. Everyone has their own Putin.

“We make duck”

And somehow Vasiliev and Slava Zaitsev came to the event in the same costume jewelry from Prague duty free. The scandal was all over Moscow!

Alexander Vasiliev with students in 1990. Taught, judging by the photo, bad.

Nothing human is alien to him, maybe Alexander Vasilyev put on benchmark pants. True, when they were already taken by everyone, but how could it be otherwise if you dressed in a second-hand Parisian! But even if he is in jeans, the hand reaches out to decorate himself with at least something. Without a brooch, I feel just naked!

The dog is clearly scared. She remembers that before this house, Alexander had a monitor lizard ...

Let's wish the bulldog good luck and don't turn it into another maestro's boa!

P.S. You can say that Roma has completely lost his scent, but I confess to a terrible thing. I wanted to write about Vasiliev in the very first issue, but I was not sure that they would be able to adequately perceive it. Now, when I see how popular this column has become, I can hope that you will be able to look at Vasiliev with a fresh look and the column, which now seems not very funny to you, will make you smile more than once :)

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Today, using the example of Christina Hendricks, I would like to show how to dress at 40 if you have a body and at the same time you are far from a model appearance. The first thing to do is to forget everything that you saw in the series and that Alexander Vasilyev advised you. Cardigans, blouses and other knitwear in pastel colors do not decorate a woman in the body, do not add elegance to her, do not bring aristocratic sophistication, but simply “babit” ...

Among our compatriots, there are also many negative examples of the abuse of knitwear. Alla Verber alone is worth something!

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You need to learn once and for all: soft and shapeless = thick, graphic and contrast = taut. Therefore, by the way, not every black slims.

It is necessary to say a few words about jackets separately. They are present in almost all recommendations for women in the body, but finding a normal-fitting jacket if you have breasts and a stomach (or maybe even both) is almost impossible. But here, paradoxically, you need to go not from the basic side, but choose a more extravagant option - with a peplum. This is just the case when black simply transforms the silhouette.
A complex cut with a lot of folds can turn a slender girl into an indistinct mess, but with full forms, on the contrary, it works wonders.

Among my clients over the age of 40, there are many fans of Vivienne Westwood, although it would seem that this is an extravagant avant-garde brand. But it is the complex cut that adorns the forms.

Women with large breasts are used to wide straps on bras and dresses, but they often spoil the picture, creating the effect of a small head. Harmoniously, they look only on a beige dress.

For all other dresses and tops, either thin straps are better, if the volume of the arm allows, or open shoulders.

Pay attention to how the wrap dress visually tightens the chest. This is a great solution not only for the evening, but also for a casual look. Especially if the dress or top is printed.

It is this dress that Diane Von Furstenberg sells from season to season. It sits perfectly on any figure and slims immediately by five kilograms. But even here you need to be careful with the print. Even if you are an autumn type, avoid vintage colors - they look cute on girls, but on women they look just like a dressing gown. Choose beautiful, rich colors and colorful prints.

If the print slightly ripples in the eyes, then you are on the right track!

And finally, a few words about outerwear. Despite all the articles about the basic wardrobe, a beige trench or coat is not the best option for a curvy woman.

A coat that is too tight can also add a few kilos.