Nonetheless, she wished to create distinction between the “cute” facet of her persona with the “gopnik” facet. Tolokonnikova, who’s vegan, juxtaposed her candy look with an outsized black faux-leather Adidas jacket, which she bought in London whereas on the town for Abramović’s exhibition on the Royal Academy of Arts. She additionally wore a pair of velvet Doc Martens, although she became slides from—you guessed it—Adidas through the get together. (“I feel it’s the sexiest factor ever: an extended lace white skirt with darkish fight boots and platforms,” she says.) And whereas a handbag might not be typical of a marriage look, she carried a black shoulder bag inscribed with the phrases “My Pussy My Riot” in pink, from her pal Michele Pred.

Tolokonnikova additionally included the Orthodox cross in her ceremony: on a necklace, garter belt, and even the vegan Napoleon cake coated in black icing, which she baked herself. “I’m nearly making an attempt to steal [the symbol] from the Orthodox Christianity, actually, as a result of they stole two years of my life,” she says. “I used to be accused—in addition to going towards Putin—of non secular hatred, which I didn’t have. However they nonetheless accused me of it. So I used to be like, Nicely, I’m simply going to be utilizing your image and reclaim it as my very own.” She and Caldwell have been married by Father Nathan Monk, who was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox church for his help of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, beneath an enormous neon Orthodox cross that Tolokonnikova used as a prop in Pussy Riot and Slayyyter’s music video “HATEFUCK.”