Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Instagram – 💍🔪🫀 american boy уеду с тобой @voguemagazine 📝: Sewing used to be a source of trauma for Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, who was forced to stitch military and police uniforms while in a Russian penal colony. But she decided to reclaim the activity when she sewed Adidas stripes onto her now-husband John Caldwell’s suit jacket, for their wedding on 12 January. “Now I feel like I can sew again without being necessarily connected to the traumatic experience,” she says. “It broke the chain of trauma.” She wanted to create contrast between the “cute” side of her personality with the “gopnik” side. Tolokonnikova, who is vegan, juxtaposed her sweet look with an oversized black faux-leather Adidas jacket. She also wore a pair of velvet Doc Martens, though she changed into slides from—you guessed it—Adidas during the party. Tolokonnikova also included the Orthodox cross in her ceremony: on a necklace, garter belt, and even the vegan Napoleon cake covered in black icing, which she baked herself. “I’m almost trying to steal [the symbol] from the Orthodox Christianity, honestly, because they stole two years of my life,” she says. “I was accused—besides going against Putin—of religious hatred, which I didn’t have. But they still accused me of it. So I was like, Well, I’m just going to be using your symbol and reclaim it as my own.” She and Caldwell were married by Father Nathan Monk, who was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox church for his support of the LGBTQ+ community, underneath a giant neon Orthodox cross. Photos: @marysergeevnaa Husbando: @vegsurfer Text: @hannahjacksuhn