Artist and museum producer Katya Kabalina about favorite outfits

FOR RUBBER "WARDROBE" we take pictures of beautiful, original or strangely dressed people in their favorite things and ask them to tell stories related to them. This week our heroine is the artist and museum producer Katya Kabalina.

Interview: Dasha Knyazeva

Photo: Andrey Raputo

Set Design: Katya Starostina

In early childhood, I was wearing clothes for second cousins - their cabinets were filled with things brought from different parts of the world. I remember how I arranged a real fashion show in front of my grandfather and grandmother, and even threw a tantrum to my mother a couple of times, defending the chosen pair of trousers. Grandmother and mother were always terrible fashionistas, so instead of playing, I considered their wardrobe. My mother was a talented artist, according to whose designs she made catwalk collections, and I wanted to repeat after her - I made clothes for dolls and drew silhouettes of long-legged models.

I have to art from an early age. Mom organized art exhibitions, so that foreign artists often stayed at our house, whom I could drive all day in Moscow. Even as a child, I constantly spent time in museums and galleries - in many respects this set the trajectory of my future life. Now I work in the Polytechnic Museum and deal with the main exhibition, the opening of which we are preparing for 2020.

Petersburg influenced my style greatly, its night and youth culture. I like avant-garde, grotesque images, and I try to make non-trivial accents: bright shadows, high platform, huge shoulders. There was a time when I was fond of the sneaker culture, but once I counted twenty-four pairs of sneakers, I realized that the situation was out of control. That period of consumerism made me think about ecology and inequality in our society. Since I began to develop as an artist, the main color of my wardrobe is black. I also try to choose things in which I can escape from the office to open or party. However, over time, I began to like more strict silhouettes - it seems that because of this, people are afraid to speak to me once again.

Dress from showroom INDEXflat, Dr. Boots. Martens, a scarf from the Dikaya Kost store

This dress started my love for the INDEXflat showroom - I always prefer chamber places, the creation of which is an interesting person.

For many years now I've been alternating martinas with sneakers. I feel confident in shoes, and sneakers are just my favorite shoes since childhood. After I sold those twenty-four pairs, I had a fortune - now I buy only what I really like.

Vintage silk scarf - from the store, which I do along with a good friend. Once she brought from Tbilisi a whole suitcase of amazingly beautiful things: marble caskets, bronze candlesticks and much more. Then I realized that I had to immediately offer her to open a store - and that was how our project began.

Susan Zontag's Notebook and Book "Against Interpretation"

I love Susan Sontag very much, she inspires me.

Sweatshirt Y2K Aesthetic, dress - gift, boots Urban Outfitters

The dress was presented by a friend. Although it was sewn to order, the dress turned out to be great for her - and the village was perfect for me. Now it is one of my favorites. Shoes Urban Outfitters bought in Berlin, drunk at a wedding.

Glasses Kuboraum, perfumes: Comme des Garçons Kyoto, Diptyque Do Son

Jacket from Dikaya Kost store, Mango jeans, Asya Malbershtein belt, Dr. boots. Martens

I love the flare. In jeans, a free fit and high waist are important to me - I like it when the legs look disproportionately long.

Belt Asya Malbershtein

Vatnik with Dow premiere, ABU BLANT dress, Dr. boots Martens, belt from my mother's cloak

Dress from the exhibition in ISSmag artist and designer ABU BLANT - he used it in the exhibition. Mutual friend brought to the fitting, and in the end the thing remained with me.

Notebook - a gift

I love notebooks, because I have to constantly write everything down because of work and study: plans, tasks, ideas. This notebook was presented to me by a friend-architect.

Fur coat from Saint Ouen market, Henrik Vibskov shirt

On a recent trip to Paris, I went to the Saint Ouen market in search of magical things for Dikaya Kost. There I saw this wonderful fur coat with huge shoulders and could not help but buy it.

I have a weakness - titans brands. I love to understand their stories and combine the things of these brands with vintage finds.

Mike gave a friend at the birthday of our mutual friend. She got it from somewhere with the words "hold, I know what suits you." It was a pleasure.

Louis Vuitton bag, gift box

I found this bag in one of the suitcases when I moved back from St. Petersburg to Moscow. In St. Petersburg, a young man and I often gathered guests who came and went when they wanted, perhaps someone of them forgot her.