Account Manager Julia Kosmynina 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 related stories. This week, our heroine is Louder communications manager Julia Kosminina, account manager at Louder.
For me, style is a reflection of the inner state that you transmit to the world around you through the clothes you are wearing. My internal state and self-identification is still actively changing, and with it the choice of things changes, so I cannot say that I have defined my own style for myself. Rather, I'm somewhere in the middle of its final formation.
With all my love for beautiful things and active enthusiasm for fashion, I advocate conscious consumption. At the same time, super-serious and pragmatic attitude towards clothes is not peculiar to me - the process of choosing and wearing clothes should be fun and fun. I do not belong to the camp “I buy only things of recognized expensive brands”, nor to the opponents of this approach. I like the compromise. The price of the item and the name on the tag will never guarantee you that it will flow into your wardrobe and last for many years. Similarly, the low price does not always mean poor quality and seasonality of things.
The assertion that only wealthy people or fashion editors can afford clothes of famous brands have no basis. Now two things from polyester in Zara are equal in cost to the Jil Sander Navy dress on Outnet.com - in my opinion, the choice is obvious here. On the other hand, I have a couple of expensive dresses by famous designers hanging in the closet, and I’m certainly pleased to "own" them, but I don’t wear them twice. But Topshop leather shorts for 3 thousand rubles, I regularly wear for five years and I plan to do it further. In my opinion, things should work for you, live with you - then they become overgrown with stories that add to them the most important intangible value.
Sheepskin coat H & M, Dior jacket, Alexander Wang T-shirt, Weekday pants, COS boots
My uniform last month. Recently, I first became a blonde, and gray suddenly became my favorite color. Of the entire set, only a T-shirt and shoes are bought directly by me. I have a great love for classic COS shoes, I buy every season: for me it is the perfect combination of price, appearance and quality, especially considering the fact that I don’t know how to wear shoes - I kill instantly. Weekday bought trousers from a friend and part-time of her boss, Ani Antonova. Together we participated in the last "Lambada" with a corner of the things of the coolest girls in the capital "Goodbye", where I promised myself not to buy anything at all, but since I took away Ani's things, on arrival home I decided to just try on my pants, and somehow everything came together. Trousers made of quality wool, they are comfortable, as in sweats.
The jacket (and not only this one) was inherited by me from the former boyfriend, with whom we used to wear it together. Many thanks to him for leaving the jacket with me. A pretty funny story came out with a sheepskin coat. At one of the last high-profile parties in the city, I lost my fur coat. Looking for her for more than 15 minutes in a cold wardrobe, we did not smile at all, so I left in the best clothes of my best friend, which were nobly given to me. All winter I dreamed about Acne sheepskin coat, but the euro exchange rate plans were very different, but I could not find something like that. But Volodya's sheepskin coat sat on me just perfect. By the way, the fur coat was quickly found and brought (for which many thanks to the organizers), so you will need to return the sheepskin coat (well, that spring has come).
Shorts 3.1. Phillip Lim, vintage jacket, sailor suit Jean Paul Gaultier, COS sandals
I have a certain predilection for blue, and especially dark blue color (even stronger than for other men's things), and I wore this set, probably, the largest number of times from all my clothes in the last two years. 3.1 Phillip Lim is one of my all-time favorite brands, these shorts are absolutely perfect: the right color, the right length, the high waist. Obviously, one of the most beloved and versatile things in my wardrobe.
Jacket got from the ex-boyfriend, complete with a Dior jacket. We bought it together on our first trip to New York at a flea market in Brooklyn, most likely from a boy's school uniform. A sailor suit was bought in the next trip to the States in the Brooklyn Museum, where at that moment the retrospective of Jean-Paul Gautier was coming to an end and with a super discount it was possible to buy a sailor suit that became significant for the designer.
Reyn Spooner for Opening Ceremony shirt, American Apparel pants, Weekday raincoat, vintage bag
With this Hawaiian shirt, I started to have a passion for funny prints. It seems to me that ironic and fun clothes are great, it always reduces the degree of seriousness of what is happening, which, as a rule, is beneficial for everyone. American Apparel trousers were bought for some super funny kopecks in an outlet in New York and serve me not the first summer. They sit very cool, which is a great rarity for trousers with my small height. Many times after that I went to AA shops hoping to buy a couple more in a different color, but not destiny.
A similar cloak, I think, should be at all. Timeless classics. I bought it on my first train to Berlin, absolutely falling in love with the color and slightly velvety surface of the fabric. The bag is an absolute old-timer in my wardrobe, she is probably about six years old, and every year she becomes more noble and beloved. Excellent investment of my last 30 euros in a vintage shop on the Carrer de la Riera Baixa in Barcelona.
Walk of Shame Suit, Bag & Other Stories, COS Sandals
An ideal outfit for important working meetings, for some reason I feel in him for five years smarter and more confident. I bought it from my girlfriend Ksyusha Tumanova, and she, in turn, bought it on a sale in Entuziaste from Shahri Amirkhanova, if I'm not mistaken. The circulation of things in society. COS sandals are perfect for 70% of summer clothes in my wardrobe, but they absolutely don’t suit me, every time I wash my feet in blood, and in completely different places, so they serve me rather in a situation when I need to go somewhere beautiful, stand-smile and quickly leave.
Matériel coat, leather trousers 3.1. Phillip Lim, sweater knitted mom, COS clutch
My mother stunningly knits, so for three years now, I basically do not buy and do not look at knitted items in stores, because mom can knit everything. This incredible blue mohair sweater with an unusual silhouette is my absolute favorite. It seems that on the set I put it on the inside out, which my mother will surely notice - mother, forgive me, he is so beautiful!
Another proof of my excellent compatibility with the brand 3.1. Phillip Lim - these leather pants that I bought from Ksyusha Tumanova, already mentioned by me, whom these ideal leather pants with a high waist did not fit (Ksyusha, definitely, one of the three people who made the greatest contribution to my dressing room). I like the fact that the pants are free cut, but at the same time shortened and high-waisted, which helps to sustain proportions. Wear at least every day.
I grabbed off the cashmere coat of the Georgian brand Matériel with a very good discount and I love it terribly, despite the fact that the slits on the sleeves clearly suggest that I should spend the autumn and spring in Tbilisi, not in Moscow.
Kenzo blouse, COS coat, Maje pants, Acne Studios boots
It so happened that I didn’t talk about leather jackets at all: I really like them on others, I bought them a couple of times, but in the end I don’t wear them at all. But with the coat all the way around - mutual and deep love. I believe that the coat is not enough, so their number I have already exceeded seven pieces. This is perhaps the brightest. I spent my last trip to Paris in it, so now every time I put it on, I move a little to my beloved city.
I had an interesting pattern with Kenzo: every time when, by the will of fate, I find myself in “Crocus” in Strogino and I enter the usually empty Kezno boutique “just to see”, I always leave with a cool purchase for a very pleasant price. At the same time in Paris it is impossible to buy anything.
Boots - a gift for my 25th birthday. I don’t wear very often, but when I wear, I always remember with tenderness a trip to California, during which I received them as a gift.
Kenzo Dress, Uniqlo Turtleneck, Maje Pants, NMD Sneakers by adidas Originals
The dress was bought just in one of my trips to Crocus, it is made of natural silk, it works great in the summer for a black body, and in the winter in a multi-layer set. I really like how beautiful it flutters when moving, a bright and feminine thing that is absolutely not defiant (although it reminds someone Alla Borisovna).
Perhaps this is directly related to professional deformation, but over the past year, sneakers have displaced almost all shoes from my wardrobe. For me, as for a girl who, up to 21 years old, in principle, did not wear shoes not with heels, this is the most powerful change in style in her entire life. This is the first (and my favorite) NMD model, which was released in December last year in limited edition. The most comfortable sneakers I've ever worn (and this is absolutely not associated with professional deformation).
Monki raincoat, Gitman Brothers for Opening Ceremony shirt, COS skirt, adidas Originals sneakers
I call this kit a crazy nursing outfit. Monki, definitely my favorite mass-market mark, was especially cool when their stores were not in the center, it was possible to buy a bunch of cool and fun things that you could hardly find someone else for absolute pennies. My favorites for Monki are raincoats, I have five completely different colors for any weather and image.
A shirt from that very period of active fascination with funny prints. I am not an ardent fan of Opening Ceremony, but I never remain indifferent to their collaborations of this kind. I didn’t wear a shirt for a long time after the purchase, as I didn’t have anything to combine it with - COS saved the situation as always.
My first and most favorite adidas originals. They are already pretty dead, but, in my opinion, white sneakers should look like this, I don’t like white shoes, especially sports shoes.
COS raincoat, Monki overalls, adidas Originals sneakers, bag & Other Stories
I went through almost the entire past warm season and clearly continue with this. For me, this is the perfect combination of elegance and convenience. Overalls in general as pajamas, superflexible, do not hold down movements and are not crumpled.
Blouse Stella McCartney, skirt Yves Saint Laurent, boots Acne Studios
My outfit is a successful girl. I bought a blouse at the Aizel store, absolutely not regretting for it a rather lump sum. This item is an ideal option for both working meetings and opening exhibitions. Yes, even on techno raves in it you feel cool and appropriate.
The skirt from the latest collection of Stefano Pilati for YSL (summer-spring - 2011) I randomly bought last summer at the TSUM outletlet in the "Afimolla". How she got there, and even in my size, I still do not understand. Undoubtedly, one of my most successful purchases. Despite the fact that it is better not to sit in it (wrinkled instantly) and not to walk (literally gets dirty from the air), she is so incredibly beautiful and sexy that you can forgive all inconveniences.
Monki jeans, Levi's denim jacket, vintage shirt, adidas Originals sneakers
A funny story is also connected with the things from this kit (after all, it is the stories that make things favorite, not their price tag and name on the tag). Spring that year was very messy, and it turned out that for the weekend I was hiding at home with a friend who had gone on a business trip. Fatal was the decision to arrange washing, I decided to wash everything at once, including sneakers. I managed to close the washing machine, but not to open it. As a result, all my things were locked in a washing machine, including shoes, and after a couple of hours the opening of a new Dasha Zorich place - Win Win in Neskuchny, on which I had to work as an invited bartender.
My best friend Volodya came to the rescue, who online bought me things in the same Monki, so these jeans appeared in my wardrobe. That evening unexpectedly turned out to be very cool, and Volodya shared his Levi's jacket with me, which suited me so perfectly that I ended up with me.
The shirt was bought for 5 euros in a small shop in Mara, it has the perfect cut and a nice milky color and has served me for more than five years.
Casio watch, UNOde50 pendant, Corpus Christi pendant, handmade pendant
I have long wanted an expensive watch for myself, but I can’t find a model that would suit me, everything is either too banal as a Rolex, or completely unaffordable for the price. Classic Casio in this regard, absolute salvation. The pendant is a gift, my old friend Princess and my date of birth are engraved on it.
Many years ago, at the very beginning of our relationship, my former boyfriend brought a skeleton earring in a gold crown from the French jewelry store Corpus Christi from Paris. I lost my earring after some time (I lost everything then), but after three years the next visit to Paris bought myself the same, but on a chain. I call him Joe and almost never take it off.
I made a round coin medallion myself this winter in a jewelry workshop in Sri Lanka, I would never have thought that making a simple flat circle would be so energy and labor intensive, but then the level of satisfaction after the completion of work is too high. Now I dream to start learning jewelry.
Top row - earrings Anton Heunis, bottom - a gift from a friend of Georgia
I love large and bright earrings, the work of Anton, in my opinion, the perfect combination of quality, style and price - I have most of his jewelry. Thanks to my friend Masha Kashmir, who once opened and even personally introduced me to him. Earrings with green stones are a gift from my friend Ira, who brought them from Georgia, I love them very much for their sophistication and dark noble silver.
Earrings with sapphire, earrings with green amethyst, earrings with white pearls Maya Kotelnitskaya
I bought earrings with sapphires and amethysts in Sri Lanka, which is famous for its precious stones for reasonable money. The only thing is, since the main contingent prefers "expensive-rich", it is quite difficult to find something unkempt and exquisite there. Amethyst is my stone, but I have always believed that it can only be in shades of purple, it turns out that bottle-greens are found in Sri Lanka, which along with yellow amethysts from South Africa are considered to be quite rare. Earrings with pearls - a gift for girlfriends birthday, perfect for every day.
Sunglasses Christian Dior, Etnia Barcelona, Let Me See Sun
I have a lot of sunglasses, but these three pairs are definitely the main ones. Vintage Christian Dior I have for many years, moved all from the same boyfriend. The gentle summer Etnia Barcelona bought a few years ago at KM20, did not wear for a long time, and then suddenly sat down on clothes of pastel shades, and glasses began to play an important role in complementing the image. The black Let Me See Suns were bought at Colette and generally didn’t interest me for a long time until I lost my favorite black Ray-Ban in Tbilisi. Desperate to find the same model, I had to wear that black couple, which was, in the end, we perfectly exist together.