However monstrous Putin is, it should not be forgotten that so much Russian culture is wonderful – the art, the porcelain, the architecture and music. After Roman Abramovich bought Lucian Freud's enormous nude known as Big Sue for £17 million in 2008, I installed it in his London home. Russian taste is thought a byword for vulgarity, but the rich ones had a particularly keen eye for the best art. That said, one oligarch I worked with had a chef with about 18 boxes of knives and hired a security team to guard every door of his apartment. I expected these billionaires to have hundreds of minions, but I saw very few domestic staff.
I always use a very good supplier in Paris. You can tell when a light switch is cheap by the feel of it. In particular, specified solid door handles, light switches and lighting fittings. They were after luxury rather than ostentation.
The building should have been a hotel and is now valued at £300 million. Thank God, the job fell through, because I don't know what I would have done with it. It was a beast, the largest non-royal home in London, with 104 bedrooms or something. Once, I was in the running to do up the gigantic mansion called Witanhurst in Highgate, North London, which had been bought by Russian billionaire Andrey Guryev through an offshore company. Looking back, though, one wrong move and I could have been in poisoned underpants territory. I had no idea that by associating with such powerful men, I was dancing along the edge of a volcano. But then he and my friend, the beautiful Alexandra Tolstoy, separated, and that was the end of that. "I do hope to have another opportunity to be back in Vietnam and of course, take a different approach to shooting my content! I apologize once again, and will be more sensitive to the local cultures all over the world.When Roman Abramovich asked me to help design his house in London 's Belgravia, I put a great big plaster classical statue of a pipe player in the middle of the drawing roomĪn extraordinary scene – these women were apparently his court and they produced some disgusting sausagey food.
"To my recent travel to Vietnam, there was a posting of mine that truly upset the people, and I deeply and sincerely apologize for my actions/content and the disrespect to the traditional culture of Vietnam, to which I have now taken down," she wrote. Last Wednesday, the 23-year-old issued an apology on Facebook in Vietnamese, English and Chinese. Siew has since deleted the photos, but not before screenshots of the images were circulated online. Hoi An's Culture and Information Department Head Tong Quoc Hung also commented on Siew's actions, noting that "the female tourist revealing her underwear in the ancient town of Hoi An is offensive," per Vietnamese news outlet VnExpress. The backlash against Siew was swift, with angry social media users accusing her of being "disrespectful" of Vietnamese culture. In the photos taken in the historic Vietnamese town of Hoi An, her thong is clearly visible as she releases a flower-shaped paper lantern on the Hoai River - a traditional custom signifying a prayer for peace. Siew Pui Yi, who has 17.5 million followers on Instagram and 717,000 followers on Facebook, had posted several pictures of herself last week donning an ao dai, minus the pants that usually accompany the outfit's tunic top.
Siew, who has 17.5 million Instagram followers, deleted the photos and issued an apology online.Ī Malaysian influencer has apologized after sparking outrage in Vietnam over photos she shared of herself wearing the country's national dress - but without pants. Social media users accused the 23-year-old of being "disrespectful" towards Vietnamese culture. Malaysian influencer Siew Pui Yi sparked outrage over photos of herself wearing the Vietnamese national dress without pants.
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