Teenage Fashion Designer Kira Plastinina

Teenage Fashion Designer Kira Plastinina 16-year-old Russian's global fashion brand boasts 54 outlets worldwide sergei plastinin

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At regularly-convened "style councils", Kira and her design team examine muslin versions of the designer's sketches. Kira rates them as "cool", "very cool" or rejects them as too revealing or "too adult."

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