Beyond Balenciaga

Part 3

I intended for my Beyond Balenciaga series to end on the second part, but I just keep learning more and more. You probably remember the 2014 celebrity event at the Serpentine from part 2. I never could prove that Pinault and Nicole Junkermann even spoke at the event. Perhaps he just hung out with Mark Ruffalo the whole time for all I knew. Well, I have images of him at the party, and he is hanging out with another friend of Rachel Chandlers. Her name is Dasha Zhukova. She is the daughter of the Russian oligarch Aleksandr Zhukov and the ex-wife of oligarch Roman Abramovich. She claims she went from not knowing or caring anything about art to owning the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. The Garage sometimes collaborates with Pinault to display parts of his collection. https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/583200 https://archive.ph/fxHnF/again?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/design/17voge.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/04/dasha-zhukova-interview-roman-abramovich

(Francois-Henri Pinault and Dasha Zhukova)

The artists she associated with are the same scum I have discussed on this substack since its inception. The following is an excerpt from Jezebel about the first issue of Garage magazine. The magazine cover featured a tattooed labium, because of course it did. “For its inaugural issue, Garage approached contemporary artists including Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons to design tattoos. Then, the magazine found men and women who volunteered to have the tattoos, and tattoo artists willing to execute the artists' designs. Inside the magazine are Hedi Slimane photographs of the nine people who got the different tattoos. (The artist Dinos Chapman ended up getting his tattoo on his own arm, and then tattooed his brother Jake for good measure.) The photograph of Hirst's butterfly tattoo, which was inked on 23-year-old Londoner Shauna Taylor, made one of Garage's three covers.” https://jezebel.com/here-is-an-uncensored-cover-of-dasha-zhukovas-garage-ma-5841864 https://jezebel.com/labia-star-in-first-issue-of-dasha-zhukovas-magazine-n-5834190

(I know this image came from Reddit but I don’t know who originally posted it. If anyone knows I will credit them.)

As you can see, Dasha Zhukova appears to occupy many of the same social circles as Rachel Chandler. They both share a mutual friendship with Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell. Marina Abramovic is, similarly, friends with both Dasha and Rachel. The connections have started coming in fast. https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/1436568