Teenage Fashion Designer Kira Plastinina

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

Aware
In person, Kira is relaxed, confident and soft-spoken. "Everyone in my school considers me a normal teenager," she says. And that, one suspects, is the key to her success.

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