High School Student by Day, Top Fashion Designer by Evening
- Filed under: Alternative Lifestyle, Beauty, Fashion, Fashion Week, Fendi, Kiss Bloggs, kissfendi
- Date: Jan 10,2008
By day, Kira Plastinina is like most 15-year-old girls.
She goes to a Moscow high school, albeit an elite Anglo-American school, and she has a messy locker.
During study halls she gossips with her girlfriends about boys and homework and shopping and celebrities.
At lunch she picks at the food in the cafeteria, “the only thing that’s edible are the potatoes,” she told ABC News.
Once school is over, though, Plastinina’s other life begins and it’s definitely not the life of a typical teenager.
She has become something of a fashion mogul, like Liz Claiborne or Tommy Hilfiger.
With the help of her wealthy father, she has opened a chain of clothing stores across Russia (more than 30) and she is scheduled to launch stores in America later this year.
From school, Plastinina’s chauffeur takes her to the office. Once there, Plastinina, the chief designer, and her team get to work.
“It’s a lot of work and it’s impossible for one person to do all of it,” she said. Although she does not personally design every piece, she approves all of them.
As she sifts through the racks of clothing and leafs through sheets of sketches, she is full of questions and suggestions. She knows her stuff and she knows what she wants. /abcnews.go.com
