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14 things in taylor swift’s house that we want NOW

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Published Apr 19, 2016 5:00 AM

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We were thrilled to hear that Vogue’s next 73 Questions subject was Taylor Swift! We’ve been fans of her decor choices for awhile, and couldn’t wait for a closer peek inside her California home. Throughout the video, Tay takes us on a tour of her entryway, writing room (that’s what we’re calling it), dining room, kitchen, and backyard. Read on to find out which items really stood out to us, and watch her 73 Questions video, too!

First of all, we really love her photos framed in gold with black matting. It’s a combination we’ll try ASAP, and a fresh change from too-frequently used color combinations. .

Trying to get over for a moment that there’s a GRAMMY BEHIND HER, we also love her adorable pink loveseat, perfectly poised to let friends listen in as she composes at the piano. (This is a great room, btw).

Moon man. We want a moon man. You hear that, MTV? Until then we’re absolutely digging up 3rd grade track and field trophies and placing them ever so nonchalantly next to our coffee setup.

We absolutely love Taylor’s brass fixtures. It’s rare that a sink takes center stage in a kitchen, but we can’t take our eyes off this one! This highly functional center island is probably where Tay & squad prep fun, highly exclusive dinner parties for each other. That happens, right?

We have a thing for ovens with red knobs, k?

We love how Taylor chose a dark paint color for her back door to the patio area. This provides a nice contrast to the primarily light walls, and gives the room kind of a farmhouse feel, where a white door might feel a little too matchy.

So two things. First, why don’t we have orange trees just casually hanging out in our backyards? And second, if you watch this entire video, Taylor has some really choice options for outside seating!

What is this bike? We must have it now.

This is such a cozy space, we’d feel really comfortable around these highly personal furnishings, but what really stands out to us is the cool console table Taylor has placed behind her chair. It’s not so big as to steal the spotlight from the (amazing) fireplace on the next slide, but it’s just big enough to hold a few of her favorite things.

See? This fireplace is everything. We’re suckers for a good tile pattern , you know?

Oh hello there globe light, we see you! (And yes, on the wall that’s a framed inside quote between Taylor and her boyf, Calvin Harris aka Adam Wiles). It reads “You have successfully buried yourself in side my head. 2/26/15.”

Watch Vogue’s entire 73 Questions video with Taylor Swift!

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Welcome To Vogue House

Each month Vogue lands on newstands - inside is a world of beautiful clothes, thought provoking features and inspirational images - but what's it like to work inside the place where the magazine gets made? Nestled in the heart of central London, just off Oxford Circus, Vogue House is whereshoots get prepped, fashion features written and the big ideas discussed. An intimidating building to enter on the first day - just think of all the editors, stylists, designers and models who dreamt up some of fashion's most famous pages in this building! Yes, racks of fresh off the runway dresses do fill the office and you do rub shoulders with some well-heeled ladies (although currently you're more likely to find the editors tapping into the trainer trend) but you might be surprised to see some of the building's more unique features - there are straightners in the Vogue loos. Take a tour of the famous building through the eyes of a Vogue girl:

Turnstile doors and the famous logo make for a suitably impressive entrance. Inevitably quite intimidating on the first day!

One of Vogue House's most familiar faces - John mans the fort with a constant cheeky grin. Interesting fact: he's a keen gardener and has taken responsibility of the Vogue.co.uk office's very own mini garden.

Way up high looking over Hanover Square, Vogue occupies the whole of the fifth floor. From the famous fashion cupboard to the commercial team, it's here budgets get managed, the tweets tweeted and the photographs selected.

Headed up by Miss Vogue editor Emily Sheffield and Vogue.co.uk editor Lucy Hutchings, the Vogue team head to the boardroom to discuss ideas for the week ahead, ranging from the exclusive interviews hitting the site to making a newly spied fashion trend just right for Miss Vogue - everyone's voice gets heard.

With the fashion team regularly flying to exotic locations, (for the May issue they visited Bhutan) expertly packed rainbow suitcases often line the corridors, waiting to head off for the next shoot.

Just to the side of the building is the Vogue House Shop. Open to the public, it's a one stop shop for all the Conde Nast publications. You'll find everything here, from LOVE to GQ and Vogue Russia to - of course- Miss Vogue .

Not just filled with the magazines, you'll also find all of the Vogue books in the Conde Nast shop. A must-have for any fashionable coffee table, the books range from Vogue on: Alexander McQueen to Unseen Vogue: The secret history of fashion photography

Hidden amongst the third floor is Tony's Cafe. When deadlines are looming and the Voguettes need a sugar fix, you'll find them here.

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Goodbye Vogue House: Looking back at the history of the iconic building

By Nicholas Coleridge

For years before I joined Condé Nast, I used to peer through the revolving doors of Vogue House. Editors, stylists, fashionistas came and went, and you might spot famous photographers, too – David Bailey, Patrick Demarchelier, Norman Parkinson – and supermodels and celebrities. All visible from the rear window of a black cab as you sped by.

For magazine people, Vogue House was the centre of the London creative universe. Everyone acknowledged it, even if grudgingly. It had the best address – Number One, Hanover Square – perfectly located between Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street. For 75 years, Vogue House vested Conde Nast with a special, indefinable edge – intriguing, enviable, swanky.

It is sad the company is leaving. It feels like the ravens leaving the Tower of London or the apes quitting Gibraltar. Everything moves on, and no doubt the new Conde Nast digs will have faster, more reliable elevators and stronger WiFi. But a historic headquarters building, wrapped in mystique and legend, has a value beyond the balance sheet. This is a hymn of bittersweet homage and fond adieu to a beloved London landmark; a building that can claim a comparable glamour and treachery, artistry, ambition and treason to the Tower of London. Vogue House, like the Tower, became a tourist attraction. Conducted coach tours crawled by, “On your left, the home of all the famous glossy magazines…”

Architecturally, Vogue House is a standard example of mid-Fifties art deco by the cinema architects Yates, Cook and Darbyshire, with a fabulous architrave and chiselled typography which should be listed. It functioned perfectly as a magazine HQ, with different titles on different floors, each with a distinct vibe of its own, almost always conforming to stereotype. So Vogue really was populated by fashionistas wearing black with killer heels; The World of Interiors by art school bohemians; Condé Nast Traveller by trailblazers with an adventurer-meets-suite-habitue air; Vanity Fair by distinctly polished minds.

When the lift doors opened, anyone could emerge – the (previous) Princess of Wales, Diana, dropped in regularly to inspect clothes on the rails or came to lunch; Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Naomi, Cara Delevingne; fashion and interior designers; sundry Prime Ministers; interns on coffee runs; jewellers delivering priceless tiaras and emerald necklaces for shoots; famous footballers dropping into GQ for grooming products; the Queen. All roads led to Hanover Square. Fashion assistants smoked on the roof, drivers smoked on the delivery ramp. Of the 900 staff working in Vogue House, at least 800 were women. At 7pm, at the end of the day, scores of young men congregated in the lobby, to collect their girlfriends. The mail room was perpetually awash with fresh flower deliveries. Orchids, generally.

“Only Divas in the Building” – a Steve Martin/Selena Gomez sequel set in Vogue House, but this time a documentary. The low-level competition between magazines and editors was perpetual; for celebrity covers, for staff, for restaurant tables, for attention and prestige. Did it seep from the very walls of the building? And will it move with the company?

There was a boardroom of great beauty, lined with black and white photographs by some of the world's most renowned photographers; a staff canteen (“the hatch”) which did a roaring trade in toast from Vogue House icon Tony; a basement archive of colossal value, like Tutankhamun’s tomb, housing hundreds of thousands of images by Cecil Beaton, Snowdon and Patrick Demarchelier. There was hardly a famous editor who didn’t work in the building at one time or another.

So, farewell then, Vogue House. It's recently been announced that Conde Nast has sold the building to Eyal Ofer, a Monaco-based businessman. Surely, whatever happens to it next will have few of the quirks and foibles of the Palace of Gloss. But perhaps, in the dead of night, you might still hear the creak of a fully loaded fashion rail being wheeled along the corridors, or the pop of a cork, or a diva’s cry. And the new inhabitants will be just a little creeped out.

Sir Nicholas Coleridge was variously Editorial Director, Managing Director, President and Chairman of Conde Nast.

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Margot Robbie shares a tour of her dreamy California beach house

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Margot Robbie has given an access-all-areas tour of her California beach house in a video for Vogue ’s 73 Questions series. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star divides her time between the US and her native Australia, but after seeing her Californian residence we can imagine it would be hard to leave.

The tour begins at the entrance to Margot’s home, which has a stable-style door that leads into a living area. The entire space has a light and airy feel with white walls and furniture, wooden flooring, and a huge gold mirror hanging on the wall. There is a piano in one corner, and a surfboard propped up in another – perfect for surfing on the Californian coast.

Margot leads the interviewer through to her bedroom, which has a similar relaxed aesthetic with distressed wooden doors, plain white bedding, and a pale blue rug on the wooden floor. Glass doors lead directly out to the garden, helping to flood the room with natural light.

The kitchen, meanwhile, is the ideal place for Margot to host her friends for brunch, with a professional Barista-style coffee machine and cream Smeg kettle, plus open shelving to display a selection of cookbooks, mixing bowls and chopping boards. There is a dining table within the kitchen, but Margot set up a wooden table outdoors for herself and her friends, with rosé wine chilled in a marble wine cooler, and fresh flowers displayed in jugs.

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There is also a separate outdoor sofa seating area, with a second surf board propped up outside the house, so Margot and her husband Tom can go surfing together. However, the actress admitted she was probably "a two" out of ten as a surfer.

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While Margot is now settled in California, earlier in her career she lived in a house share in Clapham, South London, with a group of friends and her now-husband Tom – something she has previously described as "the best of times".

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Brand Building 

By Robin Muir

Photography by Julian Broad

In spring 1958, The Condé Nast Publications Ltd moved its magazines and 300 staff a quarter of a mile to the west, from Golden Square on the fringes of Soho to the southern side of Hanover Square, where Mayfair properly began. In Golden Square they’d been jammed in like sardines. Before that, in New Bond Street, where Vogue camped out during the war, the windows shattered with alarming regularity and while sirens wailed, copy was edited on the stairwells amid the shards and dust.

Now it was Vogue House, a landmark HQ for a burgeoning empire of 21 publications, some more celebrated than others: Vogue Baby Woollies and Vogue Young Idea Pattern Book must surely have been niche even then. Vogue House was, and remains for the time being, a seven-storey block of a building, looking down expansively, if impassively, from its topmost floors at the gardens below.

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Architects Yates, Cook & Darbyshire had designed several buildings on nearby Regent Street, having specialised in racecourse grandstands and Art Deco cinemas (the Wimbledon Odeon, their last, was generally considered uninspiring). There was nothing remotely Deco about Vogue House – ‘squat, small and brown’, as one observer put it; instead it was determinedly Modernist in outlook, boasting few design flourishes, save for the projecting brickwork between the many windows, which resembled pieces of Lego, and the gilded typography of VOGUE HOUSE chiselled into the architrave above the famous revolving doors. Nevertheless, contributors were quick to praise it when those doors first swung: ‘Today Vogue is being installed in a palace dominating the most influential section of fashionable London,’ wrote Cecil Beaton. ‘This is as it should be.’ And advertisers sent their congratulations too: ‘Many happy years in your new home,’ declared Fortnum & Mason.

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A display of artworks, decorative objects and bibelots in the airy office of Edward Enninful, editor-in-chief of ‘Vogue’. Several feature his Boston terrier, Ru, a familiar sight on the fifth floor. Ru has now been joined by Riri and both share an Instagram account

Just before its official opening, Norman Parkinson carried out a fashion shoot in the mirrored entrance hall, with its marble and blue-mosaic floor and three high-speed passenger lifts. The new kid on the block was the biggest and most up-to-date, though to begin with, Condé Nast occupied only the top three floors, with a roof garden above. G Plan furniture, at peak desirability, leased part of the ground floor as a showroom; the other half, now Condé Nast Worldwide News, was leased until 2014 by the Midland Bank (later HSBC), its vaults becoming part of the Vogue library’s secure storage. For a time Associated-Rediffusion, the television broadcaster for London, occupied another floor.

The ‘WoI’ workroom is a repository of everything from resin antlers to random rolls of wallpaper. One benighted office manager compared keeping it tidy to painting the Forth Bridge in Scotland – as soon as one has finished, one must start all over again

The whole of the top storey, the sixth floor, was given over to the Vogue Studio, a state-of-the-art complex. ‘New and fabulous!’ enthused Photography magazine in 1959: ‘The whole set-up is a photographer’s dream!’ And it was. Here David Bailey popped his head round the door to glimpse for the first time Jean Shrimpton (she was doing an ad for Kellogg’s). ‘Forget it, Bailey, she’s too posh for you,’ said photographer Brian Duffy. The interiors were designed by James Cubitt & Partners, who found, as often happens in office planning, that dividing a large space into multiple ones creates a raft of challenges: the penetration of daylight, the unimpeded flow of heat and air, the suppression of noise and so on. This was mostly solved by detachable vinyl-clad partitions, then something of a novelty. ‘Strong, sound-absorbing – and most attractive,’ judged House & Garden .

Ms Sinclair left ‘WoI’ some years ago, but her door architecture endures in the workroom. Amid assorted umbrellas, helium balloons, stepladders, a complete Encyclopedia Britannica from the 1990s and a vintage sewing machine lie other boxes labelled: “film and padlocks”, “candles”, “velcro” and so on

Cork tiles on the walls and Supacoustic ceiling panels further softened the dull hum of open-plan interaction. The spacious fourth-floor reception area, a first encounter with a hallowed world, was suitably chic. Skirting boards and doors of mahogany, a gleaming white marble floor and warm pearwood wall panels. This domain was ruled, somewhat chaotically, by receptionist Bunny Cantor. A former model, she could, with that basilisk stare entirely of the era, face down the unfamiliar. But when one dignitary too many was shooed away too soon, Bunny descended four floors to the basement to establish the Vogue library, which she oversaw in a similarly distinctive fashion. Ten years on, the building was beginning to lose a little of its lustre. In 1968 Grace Coddington, who had known the sixth floor as a model and now on her first day as a fashion editor on the fifth, recalled: ‘The lift doors parted… And what a disappointment it was! A sea of cheap, mismatched wooden furniture, cluttered desks that looked as though they had been salvaged from the streets…’. But gradually, over the years, the building came alive as all floors filled up, each a reflection of its colonisers.

The magazine has historically kept its trove of photographs and illustrations separate from the main library. Here, impeccably kept in hanging files, is a complete visual history of the magazine, beginning in 1981

Impossibly thin girls dressed in black and teetering on sky-high heels ( Vogue ); older, tweedier types ferrying swatches of fabric ( House & Garden ); extremely nice people ( Brides ); extremely dangerous people ( GQ ). As for third-floor Tatler , Nicholas Coleridge, then the company’s MD, put it piquantly: the magazine was staffed, he wrote in his memoirs, ‘by party-minded, treacherous socialites’. The World of Interiors with its idiosyncratic creatives, helmed by its idiosyncratic bohemian-chic editor Min Hogg, was a relative latecomer joining in 1994, slightly reluctantly, from its happy outpost on the King’s Road.

Opposite the lifts on the third floor, two Eero Saarinen “Tulip” armchairs welcome visitors to ‘Tatler’ magazine, established as a journal in 1709 but only part of Vogue House from 1982

Downstairs, from their semicircular security island, the so-called Two Peters ruled the modest foyer with a rod of iron for nearly 20 years. The revolving doors swung to a pop-cultural beat – George Michael, Boy George, Princess Michael of Kent, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista – but they were never cowed, and you didn’t argue. The first Peter was an ex-RAF police-dog handler; the second, more urbane, once dispatched several naked female anti-fur protestors with charm, courtesy and efficiency. Sleek and glossily sheened though Vogue House was by the 1980s, atoms of a glorious past remained.

In a little room off the main ‘Vogue’ offices, shoots are prepped, sundry accessories are carefully sorted and a feather-fringed hat is being tried on by fashion cupboard manager Inês Mourão

House & Garden ’s gardens editor was Major Peter Coats, the long-term boyfriend of ‘Chips’ Channon (of the celebrated diaries) and part of the Cecil Beaton set, where he was known, though never to his face, as ‘Petticoats’. Meanwhile up in Vogue fashion, Sheila Wetton, once a house model for Molyneux in the 1930s, was entrusted with David Bailey, a 20-year-old newcomer from the East End. Bailey was in awe of her chiefly because she swore like a trooper, almost, he said, as much as he did, which, he added, was saying something. ‘Bailey, what the fuck are you doing up that ladder?’ His ascent was rapid.

The ‘House & Garden’ planning table, which appears to take up a large proportion of its office on the second floor, is home for the time being to a month’s worth of fabric swatches and wallpaper samples

In the car park, he would habitually block in the chairman’s Humber. ‘Do you think Mr Bailey could be persuaded to move his Rolls-Royce? Again ?’ he would sigh. And now. The photographs on these pages show Vogue House exactly as it was on two successive Fridays last summer. Tatler all clean and shiny white steel and glass; Vogue awash with rails of clothes and tables groaning with accessories; The World of Interiors ever so slightly chaotic; the first-floor boardrooms empty but for their monochromatically patterned chairs, a variation on a theme, and wall to-ceiling black-and-white prints of the great and the good, a roll call of the century.

Propped up in the library’s storage room are these Irving Penn exhibition prints of Alfred Hitchcock for ‘Vogue’ in 1948. The director came to Penn’s studio during pre-production for ‘Capricorn One’, which he sandwiched between the far superior ‘Rope’ and ‘Stage Fright’

The sixth floor, dark and quiet but for some sub-audible sounds, the humming of computers left on over the weekend. Above them, rain begins to batter the piping, air ducts and vents – the snaking line of metalwork that defines a thousand commercial roof lines – and through half-open windows, the sounds of London trickle through. On any given Friday, perhaps only the Hatch, the third-floor canteen, bristles with activity, as the legendary Tony, its Portuguese sovereign, marshals his sputtering coffee machines.

In the legendary Vogue Studios on the sixth floor, many of the great names of fashion photography might have been found at various times: David Bailey, Brian Duffy, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson. It’s long closed down, but in a far corner there’s an impromptu studio, used for still-life and product pictures

In readiness for its move to a new site – the more determinedly Deco Adelphi Building on the Thames – the library’s precious cargo has already been shipped out. The roof garden is out of bounds, the telephone exchange defunct. But some things remain just as they have always been: the Crittall windows, the slippery marble staircase. In the subterranean garage where fluorescent tubes flicker, only the name plates have changed. Soon the revolving doors will close for the last time and the lifts will fall silent. ‘London is not a museum,’ wrote Sir John Summerson in 1958 just as Vogue House opened its doors – his was an essay on the singular elegance of Hanover Square – ‘but perhaps there are fragments one may hope to keep’.

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While getting the answer to one question — What does it look like inside Sarah Jessica Parker's New York brownstone? — you'll be treated to the answers to 73 more, thanks to a new video from Vogue .

Parker welcomes the magazine into her home and quickly begins answering questions from an off-camera interviewer. What's your favorite season in New York City? Fall. What's your favorite movie? "The Way We Were." Twitter or Instagram? Instagram .

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In the Vogue video, the conversation moves from the entryway of Parker's home, down a hallway and into a book-filled room at the back of the house where she points to some glowing globes when asked, "What's the coolest thing in this room?" We also learn her least favorite food is parsley, her favorite drink is Coca-Cola, and her favorite pizza toppings are sausage, peppers and onions.

Dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt, Parker darts about the high-ceilinged home to fetch a glass of water and answer the phone. There is art everywhere, a stocked liquor cart, a piano, and a ping-pong table.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Moscow Nightlife

• Posted on April 14, 2018 July 26, 2018
• by Kings of Russia
• 8 minute read

Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

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Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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