Chapurin Igor Designer Biography

The designer himself explains her appearance: “It turns out that the surname“ Chapurin ”may have another spelling - through“ e ”. I learned that in the Vladimir region there is a city of Suromna, in which a huge number of Chepurins live. I wondered why? In the dictionary of Russian surnames, I read that the word "Chepur" for this area denotes a bird with long legs. I liked this discovery so much that I decided to take the bird to my logo.

In the future, if things go well, a bird with long legs will become a symbol of my future fashion house and will be awarded everywhere - on accessories, on the lining of outerwear, on jewelry and other products. ” Most likely, it will be so. Chapurin began his first press conference in his life with the words: “When I was young then he was only 26, but he already managed to do a lot in his life.

Igor Chapurin was born in the year graduated from the Vitebsk Technological College in the class “Designer of Women's Clothing” and worked for a year as a model of the Vitebsk atelier of the highest category. In the year he entered the Vitebsk Technological Institute for selfish purpose. Igor wanted to take part in the competition of young fashion designers named after Nina Ricci, and only students were allowed to him.

As a result, Chapurin received two specialties: “designer of women's clothing” and “model artist”, which provides him with not only interesting design solutions, but also impeccable technological performance. In the year, Igor realized his dream, taking part in the competition of young fashion designers named after Nina Ricci. Chapurin was lucky - he got to the top ten and in December, he visited Paris, representing Russia at the X International Festival of Young Clothing Designers.

Parisian newspapers wrote that after Shagal in Vitebsk a second star was lit. After an internship in Paris, Igor was invited to work in the company "Mah Maga". Chapurin refused this proposal: in Moscow, very seductive prospects were also opened before him - the young designer began to create dresses for the queens of beauty. Probably, the dresses from Chapurin bring happiness - in the year, Julia Alekseeva receives the title “Vice -Miss Europe” in an exquisite outfit - Igor Chapurin multiplied 45 meters of green silk on Rococo style elements.

Igor immediately after that, Igor receives an order for seven dresses for finalists of the first Miss Russia contest. In December, Chapurin shows his collection at the international fashion festival in Bulgaria. February of the year became very important in the biography of Chapurin - Igor first showed his collection in Moscow. He called his debut “traveling to Russia” “then Russia with love, because at that time his name was more known in the West than at home.

The show took place at the Metropol Hotel. The president of the France Elegance Committee, who arrived in Moscow, who arrived in Moscow, did not recognize the collection of the corresponding European level, but also made an order for thirty costumes for the Miss Europe show. In the process of working on this collection, Igor invented his own embroidery method. I had no time to have little time, I had no time to hire the embroiderers, so I was trying to try on, and embroidered at night, inventing new moves, and finally combined gold, beads and corals in one embroidery.

Then I showed the finished collection to the embroiderers, and it turned out that not one of them was simply able to repeat it. Because my embroidery was done contrary to all the canons of embroidery. ” Among other things, then Chapurin shocked Moscow by putting a black Parisian fashion model Eugene in a pearl embroidered with a pearl. In November, Igor Chapurin demonstrated the collection “Evening Fashion: Yesterday and Today”.

This time, together with fashion models in dresses, Chapurina was defiled by the People's Artist of Russia Tatyana Vasilieva. The December of the year was sometimes for Igor Fryskoye - he is developing models of costumes for employees of the Rene Garraud boutique and cocktail dresses for the presentation of the cosmetic company Estee Lauder. The Italian designer Irene Golitsyna, who was at one time became famous for the invention of the Palazzo Pajama style, designed for actively traveling women, showed a serious interest in the work of Chapurina.

Golitsyna suggested that the young designer start creating a line of women's clothing under the Galitzine brand. Igor Chapurin considers his potential clients we consider wealthy ladies from the ages of thirty, capable of comprehending the aesthetic subtleties of his ideas, and in the role of his muses sees three women at once - Alla Demidova, Tatyana Vasilieva and Marianne Petrovskaya.

Marianne is the “face” of the cosmetic series of Givenchy, Western journalists consider its appearance angelic. After photography in models from Chapurin, Marianne said: “In the West, my appearance is interpreted softerly and feminine. The new image created by Chapurin turned out to be surprisingly close to me and to some extent became a discovery. ” He began with the creation of costumes for the Miss Russia contest.

A special honor for Igor is work with a brilliant actress, People's Artist of Russia Alla Demidova.You can call brilliant cooperation by Igor Chapurin with the famous stylist Lev Novikov, whose skill helps the young designer achieve the purity and expressiveness of the image of collections. In Vilnius, a boutique of Chapurin will soon open in the English Hotel Villon.

It was quite good for 28 years. Igor Chapurin sees his place in fashion as follows: “I am looking for a compromise by inter -commercial recognition and artistic originality of things. For me, success is when things are bought when they are worn. Things must simply be used, and only then they live their own lives and justify the name “Fashion”. And the creative credo of the designer Igor Chapurin fits in three short words - simplicity, harmony, perfection.

In the year, Igor Chapurin became a candidate for a member of the Russian High Fashion Association and represents the Chapurin collection. In the year, Chapurin opens the first Moscow boutique Chapurin Couture and continues to participate in international shows, and the Ovation Award joins numerous awards. In the year, Igor Chapurin was awarded another “golden mannequin” for a collection presented as part of a high fashion week.

Igor Chapurin is one of the most famous fashion designers in the West. His shows are already traditionally held in large cities of the world, for example, in Paris.