V novoy knige "Sokrovishcha kochevnika: Parizh i dalee vezde" Aleksandr Vasil'ev rasskazyvaet o tom, kak on priekhal v Parizh v 1982 godu s papkoy svoih eskizov - i kak za neskol'ko let stal vostrebovannym vo vsem mire teatral'nym hudozhnikom i istorikom mody; kak prepodaval istoriyu mody v Parizhe, Yuzhnoy Amerike i Yaponii, oformlyal spektakli na luchshih mirovyh scenah, rabotal s Yuriem Lyubimovym i Mayey Pliseckoy; o svoih vstrechah s Rudol'fom Nureevym, Galinoy Vishnevskoy i P'erom Kardenom, o druzhbe s emigrantami pervoy volny, sredi kotoryh hudozhniki Rostislav Dobuzhinskiy, Dmitriy Bushen, Erte, aristokraty, baleriny i manekenshchicy… Kak sozdavalas' znamenitaya kniga "Krasota v izgnanii" i sobiralas' unikal'naya kollekciya istoricheskogo kostyuma. Kniga illyustrirovana fotografiyami iz arhiva Aleksandra Vasil'eva.
"Ya vozvrashchayus' v proshloe kak v sokrovishchnicu, napolnennuyu vpechatleniyami, spektaklyami, vstrechami s velikimi lyud'mi, zahvatyvayushchimi duh puteshestviyami…" Aleksandr Vasil'ev
