Lithuania s nuclear town looks to remake itself with fashion
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Visaginas, a formerly nuclear town in the northeast of Lithuania, is reinventing itself by hosting a world-class collection of historical fashion.
The Russian fashion historian and TV host Alexandre Vassiliev has accepted the invitation to house his 500-million-euro fashion collection in Visaginas, with regular exhibitions expected to draw visitors from across the country and beyond, says the town s Mayor Erlandas Galaguz.
The Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation s collection was previously housed in the Lithuanian Museum of Applied Arts and Design, but was transferred last week to a former children s clinic in Visaginas.