How would you describe the fashion scene in Russia?
Vasily: They have to understand everything behind it, so Russian fashion looks sometimes a little bit square, especially for guys. But I understand that the [exported] Russian fashion scene from here looks like Miroslava Duma or Ulyana Sergeenko. For us, they are just really rich girls, and that’s it. They do nothing. Well, they’re icons for like Tatler or Vogue, probably, but not for us.
Who are some of your fashion icons?
Vasily: Isaac Correa, who is this guy from New York who has really nice restaurants in Moscow. He’s a style icon and he looks great. He has huge arms.
Katya: Gosha Rubchinsky. He made this Russian collection that’s about average teenage boys in the nineties and it looks very tough, but it’s very realistic. It’s about these teenage boys who are children and who are tough in a way like they’ve been on the streets. Our heroes are people who do something, who create cultural things.
Vasily: They’re not afraid of being Russian, like Mira and Ulyana. They look like average Parisian or Italian or London girls. [Laughs.]