I’m never one to address nor compliment the designing, artistic, or fashion abilities of a teenaged girl, especially one of my nationality (for competition reasons, obviously), but 16-year-old Russian designer Kira Plastinina takes the cake. Adding to her repertoire of talent, she's also fucking adorable.
Having just opened her first two U.S. stores in New York City and Los Angeles in addition to the 47 locations throughout Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan (thanks to her millionaire daddy), her empire of candy-coated neon-colored girly street-wear is seen on everybody from Paris Hilton to that 18-year-old hipster you were just doing bumps with in the bathroom of Happy Endings. Damn, thanks dad!
With seven more store openings in the works in the U.S. this year, Kira has been shamelessly self promoting her cutesy designs on every red carpet this past summer whilst staying in LA before returning to Moscow for school. Her two-year-old company sky-rocketed her ego, as well as bank account, but it won't burn through yours with each clothing piece averaging at a mere 84 dollars. 84 dollars isn’t that much when you think about it… that’s what, about two grams of blow? Not a big deal.
The stores shout tacky (in the best sense of the word) Russian babygurlll princess with it's hot "Kira" pink walls, extravagant chandeliers, and full-sized mirrors ( for the narcissist or coke addict in all of us), and I’m ecstatic for the opening of the Boston location, which I am hoping is in the very near future, for the sake of every pseudo-fashionista of this city who’s just not cutting it, which needless to say is a high count.
From Russia with love.........
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