As businesses flee Russia, a New York model returns to Moscow

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Leaving behind a decade-long modeling career in the U.S., Kira Dikhtyar returned to her hometown of Moscow this spring to launch a new clothing line in sanctions-hit Russia while declaring her support for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

by his agent in March after urging Russian forces to cut off the electricity in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.In the fashion world, Burberry, Chanel, H&M and Hermès all closed stores and online sales in Russia, joining the nearly 1,000 companies that have curtailed operations in the country, according to a“The market is huge,” she said. “Think about it: 150 million people have nothing to wear because all the brands pull out.

Her comments about the war touch on sensitivities in a fashion industry that is home to both Ukrainians and Russians working side-by-side as models, photographers and designers.on multiple occasions. His family home in Kyiv is a 10-minute drive from the city of Bucha, where Ukrainians were massacred in March. Milkovich said he was dismayed by how Kremlin “propaganda” has taken the “humanity” from some of the Russians in the fashion industry.

“Yes, It’s true. I was friends with Jeffrey Epstein. I’m not defending anything,” she said of the financier who died by suicide in 2019 while in custody facing charges of abuse and sex trafficking of girls. “No matter how poor the Russian population has become, they still want to buy clothes and there are still people who have the money,” said Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.Olga Rebrova, a Russian stylist and the owner of the fashion brand Stanchy, cautioned that a new Russian clothing line would not be able to match the low production costs of established fast-fashion brands that manufacture in Vietnam, Bangladesh or China.

 

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Vampires do the darnedest things.

Omg how gross of you to feature this person, seriously what is wrong with you?

I guess she's not planning to sell her crap in the West.

Now she will paid in potato.

washed up aging nobody picks wrong time to move back to 1700's or 1400's Russia

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