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Tell us a little about your background?
I am from a very small village with fewer than 80 people. I went to school first 2 kilometers, then 15 kilometers. It's not so far from Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the Novgorod region, but everything is really bad there - especially the roads. When I was in the third grade, we drew our future professions. Someone portrayed a doctor, someone a teacher or an astronaut. And I drew a girl on the catwalk in a gold dress. Then no one approved of this. I was told that I dream too much for a girl from the village.

How did your modeling career start?
My older sister helped me move to St. Petersburg. There I went to college and went for an interview at a modeling agency, which did not take me. They told me to pay for a model school, unlearn it and then come back. Of course, I had no money, and I had to work in a restaurant. Soon, I accidentally met a girl photographer. She took a picture of me and posted the pictures on the social network. After that, other photographers became interested in me. For me, this development of events was in a sense obvious, because I always wanted it and knew exactly what I would succeed.

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What does “being yourself” mean to you?

This phrase describes me perfectly. No kidding. I am a very principled person in this regard. I will never try to be like someone else. That's why I couldn't help but react to the Puma Do You campaign. After all, this is the story of my life - to accept myself, despite the shortcomings, to create my own rules and go to the end for a great goal.

Have you had an idea to change your appearance to fit a certain format?
She periodically catches up with me, but quickly lets go. A lot of my friends will seem to most not too beautiful, but for me they are just extraordinary: they present themselves so cool and their energy is so amazing.

What big goal do you set for yourself?
I do not want to just achieve fame or make a lot of money, but to be an example for other people. I want my parents to be proud. At the moment, the priority is the well-being of my family.

“My job involves a very fast paced life. It so happened that in three days there were ten flights. It's terribly exhausting, but I wouldn't trade my life for anything. "

You often say that you are called non-standard. How does it feel?
Yes, at school I was an outcast, only two people talked to me. Over time, I got used to this status, because I actually look unusual. In Russia, I have a lot of problems because of my appearance. Recently, men even pestered me: "What are your eyebrows so big?" They pushed me, and I broke my two front teeth, right before the flight to Berlin.

How do you dress in everyday life?
I am different every day - today I can be in sneakers, sweatpants and some kind of huge jacket. And the next day - in heels, in a dress and a hat. Nevertheless, everyone tells me: "You are in your style." I don't know how it works.

What sports activities do you prefer?
I used to be seriously involved in sports, running is my favorite sport. But my hands have always been very weak, so now I stand in the bar and do push-ups every day.

Sasha Panika is a Russian model that blew up the domestic fashion market. She quickly burst into the world of haute couture, although a couple of years ago she lived in the village and sighed dreamily, looking at the models smiling from the pages of magazines. Her bushy eyebrows were teased and ridiculed by her classmates, but now these Brezhnev motives are weapons of mass destruction. Publishers of the most fashionable glossy magazines - Vogue, Harper's Bazzar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Bolivar, Glamor, Sobaka.ru - are hunting for Panic, world-famous photographers dream of seeing her in their shot, and classmates, most likely , bite their elbows At the peak of deafening success, Panic does not slow down and continues its path to conquering the world podiums.

There is a very good expression: "You can take a girl out of the village, but never take the village out of the girl." By your example, you proved that everything is possible at all. How did a girl who lived her entire life in the Russian provinces achieve incredible success so quickly?
Indeed, most of my life I have spent in the village - in the village of Artem, Novgorod region. Already in the third grade, I knew what I wanted. The school held a competition on the topic: who do you want to become in the future. Without hesitation, I drew a girl in a gold dress, she smiled, and she was filmed by photographers. So I portrayed my dream - they laughed at me. The children did not like me at all - they constantly teased me for being different from them. I was an outcast and it stimulated me. I wanted to show everyone - I'm cool, you will see. Someday you will ask me to chat with you or just stand by. In addition, I wanted this for myself - I had complexes about my appearance. And I still don't consider myself beautiful. Beauty for me is expressed in other things, in other faces, in other people, in manners. I dreamed of becoming a model, so I moved to achieve my goal.

Dreaming is not enough. Did you have a plan - where to go and what to do, where to start and where to catch the right wave?
My older sister lived in St. Petersburg, and this became one of the factors that determined my choice of the city. Moving from a village to a metropolis is very difficult. However, over time, an understanding came - I feel comfortable here. A very calm, atmospheric city. There were no difficulties with adaptation, I got into my atmosphere - like a fish in water. I felt good, people dressed in unusual clothes made me happy. I went to the most famous modeling agency, but they didn't take me there. One of the top models of the company - at that time we knew only through the Internet - said that this art does not need to be learned. If you want something - just go to it and that's it. Everything will come by itself, if it really is what you need. I was lucky to meet the photographer Luda Averyanova. She made the first shoot for me - and away we go. The photos posted on the social network did their job - other maestros of the frame began to invite me to work. While still living in the village, I added to my friends everyone in a row, one way or another involved in fashion, in the hope of someday collaborating. And so. Not in vain.

In your opinion, is your so-called "trump card" extraordinary? What do you owe this demand to?
I think it all depends not on how ideal your parameters are, your face. For example, I have a completely asymmetrical face, a crooked nose, one eyebrow higher than the other. What matters is how you present yourself. I have these shortcomings, but I am not afraid of them. And people are usually afraid of their flaws and try to run away from them. It is necessary not to run away from them, but to accept, not to be shy. You can initially have fantastic modeling data, but at the same time be unclaimed - if you do not know how to present yourself. Nobody will pay attention to you if you do nothing. But you just have to smile a little wider or blink your eyes and you have already been noticed.

Sasha, have your life principles changed? Fame and money are an explosive mixture that is easy to burn.
There should be no division into "I like you, but he does not." It hurts people a lot. No matter how famous you are, it is impermissible to behave like that. Now I only do commercial filming, there is simply no time for creative projects. In commerce, I choose whether I like an idea or not. If you like the idea - I agree, if you like the fee - too. If something doesn't suit you - I say goodbye. And here you do not offend anyone.

Has anyone offended you? Was the profession disappointing? The world of modeling is very cruel - there is huge competition and for the sake of success in work, models are ready to go over their heads.
It was a shame when you worked very hard, but received a penny for it. But at the beginning of a career, this is normal, and not only in this area. It's not scary, you need to go through it, go through it. There were moments when there was simply no strength. I wanted to lie down and never get up again. You are so tired, you feel so bad and hard, but then you get up and give yourself the command to move on. Do not give up and keep developing. Read books. Self-education is very important. Books are everything. Madly in love with A.S. Pushkin, it seems to me that everyone should read it, I love journalism very much. From foreign authors - Frederic Beigbeder, Guillaume Musso. Their romances are great. From domestic - Ilya Stogov, Sergey Minaev - an incredible journalist who writes very well. I myself enjoy writing, and after finishing my career I would really like to do journalism ..

In your case, self-development led to DJing?
Before, I studied music, played the piano, sang in the choir. We were one of the best choirs in Russia, Bedros Kirkorov's favorites - we went to festivals, those were great times. Because of the accident, I had to stop making music - I began to lose my hearing. But it so happened that at the birthday party my friends played dj set and I, after much persuasion, also tried it. And I liked it - DJing is the very link that unites me with music. And I didn't have enough music, whatever one may say. I can’t sing or play for you, but I can put you music that I love myself. This is a kind of way to convey my energy and sincerity. I like to discover new horizons and opportunities for myself, to be able to “sound” differently.

We would like to express our gratitude for the help in organizing the interview and providing the platform to the bar "The XXXX" and personally to Denis Tsvelodub.

Interviewed by: Anastasia Matveenko (@matveyenka)
Photo: Pavel Khrulev

Every Wednesday at KLEVER CAFE, we twist the brains of the powerful. The heroes of our releases are people who either make or make the culture of St. Petersburg. With them we are looking for answers to eternal questions, discussing various problems, arguing, joking, laughing.

The essence of "Tea Gossip" is acquaintance with city figures in an "unofficial" format. The main thing at our table today is the model, smart girl, beauty and birthday girl Sasha Panika, whose 21st birthday Klever cafe celebrated right after the interview.

The conversation involves:

• Sasha Panic
• Vika Duka
• Sasha Geo
• Ksyusha and Nikita (Klever cafe)

Sasha Geo: Sasha, do they often tell you that you are beautiful?

Sasha Panic: Not. I am often told that my appearance is unusual. For most people, I have a strange appearance, nothing more.

Vika Duka: This is beautiful! You have a lot of blood mixed in, I guess ...

Sasha Panic: In addition to Russians, I have in my blood Ukrainians, Tatars, Mordovians, Germans, Poles ...

Sasha Geo: Here! I see the Germans ...

Vika Duka: And, apparently, the Mongol-Tatar yoke, which we all have.

Sasha Panic: Well, yes. How many centuries did the Mongols hold Russia. By the way, as a child I was most often called a gypsy, but they definitely did not consider me beautiful. And now: for many people abroad - I am beautiful, yes. And accepting compliments from them is a common thing. And in Russia I am considered not so beautiful, rather unusual, with details: "you have great eyebrows", "a dimple on a rectangular chin" ... Something like that, but not "beautiful". And when I started working as a model, everyone told me that nothing would come of it in Russia. They said that my appearance was too strange.

Vika Duka: But it seems to me that in the modeling business everything is just the opposite: the weirder the appearance, the better, because the eye clings to it. Not?

Sasha Panic: Yes. But not for such magazines as "Cosmo", "Glamor" ...
The fact is that every time I am filmed for such publications, they tell me: "be light and amazing, like a" cosmo "girl!" And I answer: “Guys, once again we are working, and you are the same to me! I can't do that. " This is disgusting, and every time a problem ... Or it still happens like this: "Hey, Sasha, do you mind if we pinch your eyebrows?"

Vika Duka: Come on!?!

Sasha Panic: And I say - "no, sorry, I better go."

Sasha Geo: Sasha, and you can ask - what is your goal in life? What do you want to achieve, where to come?

Sasha Panic: In fact, everyone thinks that my goal is to become famous and make a lot of money and so on. But first and foremost, I have a goal: to set an example for everyone. I am from the Novgorod region, the village of Artem, Lyubytinsky district. The population there is very small. We calculated that it turned out to be 92 people! This is together with summer residents. Basically, these are retirees, a few young families and ... that's it! There, in the village, no one liked me because of my appearance. As a child, I was very dark, with long black hair, and everyone said that I was a black woman or a gypsy. Previously, they simply did not call them khachami, but they constantly poked: "Negress!"

Sasha Geo: How is your popularity measured now? I just don't follow your Instagram. How many followers do you have?

Sasha Panic: Almost 30 thousand.

Sasha Geo: Gorgeous. Did you somehow upgrade your account?

Sasha Panic: Not. It didn't really matter to me. I started Instagram two years ago, and started doing it about a year ago, last summer, when I was told that I have less than 1000 subscribers and it’s time to start doing this ... Then I started posting photos, like “I'm so cool!” )))
But this is not something bought, people who follow me, these are people who are really interested in me.

Vika Duka: Why do you yourself think people are interested in you?

Sasha Panic: Appearance is probably the main thing in this case.

Vika Duka: We always take interviews with people who make or are doing this or that culture of St. Petersburg. You said yourself - it is important for you to show an example, to convey something to people ... What do you think, what culture do you bring them?

Sasha Panic: I was recently told that with my appearance in St. Petersburg something changed, I made small reforms. When I arrived, I cut my hair very short. More precisely - bald. Although until this moment girls with short hair were not appreciated here in modeling practice, they noticed me. Everyone is like, “Wow! Yesterday she had hair below the waist, and today she is bald. Great!".
And I changed my hair color every month! I'm tired of being dark - let's go white! Tired of white - come on pink !. And if the rest of the models were not allowed to do this, then they let me get away with everything. Any agency where I have worked.

Vika Duka: In the world model practice periodically there are persons who can do anything. Kate Moss is an example, and a few more high-profile stories. They let everything get off their hands and allow everything only to the stars of their craft, this is a well-known fact ...

Sasha Panic: I have always not fully evaluated my capabilities. Even now, in fact, I am not very confident in myself. It seems to me that I am not good enough here and there ... But with all this, I have a trump card - an unusual appearance. Some people may not like it, but they will discuss me, and this is great. This will help me.

Vika Duka: It's easier for beautiful people to be heard. They do not need to first draw attention to themselves, because it is always riveted to them.

Sasha Panic: Yes, something like that.

Vika Duka: What kind of business are you doing? Precisely not "where do you work", but "what do you do"?

Sasha Panic: I am fulfilling my dream! This is the most important thing for me.
When I was in the third grade, we had a drawing competition on the topic "who wants to become who". Everyone drew astronauts, doctors, millionaires ... And I drew a girl on the podium in a long gold dress, with gorgeous hair. Roughly speaking, I drew myself. And my parents were then told that I was dependent, that I was in the clouds, and nothing would come of it. But even if it was clumsy then, but I painted my dream. I went to this all my life. I just moved and started doing.

Vika Duka: Where do you want to move next? Or will you stay here?

Vika Duka: Dream on which podium to stand - I mean it.

Sasha Panic: I didn’t stand on the Parisian podium, but such reforms in standards are taking place there ... They need very small and miniature models - last season there were solid “skeletons”. And now it's the other way around! You need to gain a couple of kilos and weigh at least 55 kg!

Sasha Geo: And then they will tell you that you need a beard.

Sasha Panic: Well, yes, something like that)

Sasha Geo: Will you walk with a beard?

Sasha Panic: I'm not talking about that! I will never push myself to the standards. I won't change for something outsider, you know?

Vika Duka: It's just that Sasha radically changed the topic of the interview!))

Sasha Geo: Yes! What do you think of Conchita?

Sasha Panic: I think it's just a person ... I don't even know what to call it ... He? She? It? A person who pays tribute to fashion, let's say. I have many acquaintances who suddenly became gay. Some people think that if it is fashionable, then it should be performed!
For example, my two young men went to the guys! And it's not funny at all ...

Vika Duka: You just live in a creative environment. Perhaps there are the most such stories.

Sasha Panic: I have a very different environment! I even have a friend who is a locksmith!)

Vika Duka: That sounds like pride!)

Sasha Panic: Yes, that's very cool! And everyone constantly asks him: "ARE YOU A LOCKSMARK !?" Great, otherwise all are photographers now ...

Vika Duka: Sasha, you touched upon the topic of standards: what are the standards of beauty now? As a model, what can you say about this, what do you see in this industry?

Sasha Panic: The standards are the same and do not change. You have to be not just 90-60-90, you have to be even smaller - straight as a flat board, and that's disgusting. And yet all agencies love classic looks. I'm not saying anything bad about girls who have such an appearance ...

Vika Duka: And what is this - a classic appearance?

Sasha Panic: Such not very noticeable faces on which you can draw anything you want.

Vika Duka: Plasticine man?

Sasha Panic: Yes. To some extent, of course, this is cool, but there are most of them. And they are appreciated not only in Russia, but everywhere. Let's say I know for sure that I would not be able to work in Asia, because there are no people like me in appearance. And those that can be sculpted are appreciated. It is not easy to blind from an unusual face.

Sasha Geo: I believe that all these standards come from the homosexuality of the real world: flat, boy-like models are needed everywhere ...
It was like the feminist movement in America. America is a miserable country. Why? About 100 years ago this movement began there, when women began to fight for their rights. Now it has come to the point that there is simply no relationship between the sexes! Men are simply afraid to look at women, and any manifestation of sexuality can become a pretext or sue, or get into it.
I am subscribed to several heroes of our time, in my opinion, who are struggling with this satanic nature. Otherwise, it will soon reach the point of absurdity - in Norway, it is almost allowed to marry with dogs. And this social experiment, which is taking place in Norway, may soon reach us! All these propaganda and minorities ... we need to fight this, and we - in the mass of people - just say: "cool! Let's laugh!" All this fashion is for a reason, and it is a real disease of modern society.

Sasha Panic: Okay, we have already gone deep into this topic!) Let's move on to others!

Sasha Geo: Tell us about your men. How did you start your relationship with them?

Sasha Panic: It would be cool to talk about my ex, but I won't!)) I will say that they always found me. And among them there were musicians. Some of the tracks my ex-musician boyfriend changed only because I advised him something there. He told me: “You have the most honest ears. I will change everything the way you say - both the music and the lyrics. " I am very pleased with this, and we are really cool friends with him now.

Vika Duka: So all your guys are musicians?

Sasha Panic: No) My current boyfriend was a very famous model before. Such as many have never dreamed of! There are only one, two of them, and it’s done… He worked with Tom Ford, Galliano was chasing him. And he practically did not work in Russia. And he is insanely beautiful. But I, so that you understand, is such a person for whom appearance just does not play a key role.

Vika Duka: In your environment, almost everyone is beautiful.

Sasha Panic: Beauty is a very subjective concept. There are those who consider me beautiful, and there are those who consider me ugly. And there is nothing wrong with that. Someone has their own understanding of beauty, someone else. Someone thinks differently, but you think so.

Vika Duka: I think you are beautiful. But you could be ugly, with the same appearance. It is beautiful how a person is in harmony with the body, how he feels and how he "wears" himself, if one can express a thought that way.

Sasha Panic: Here, you have such an opinion. And it is subjective, and there are many of them.

Sasha Geo: As a psychologist, I have a feeling that you have a strange attitude towards love. You don't expect love from your companions. You don't need their adoration. This is my subjective opinion, it seems to me so. Right?

Sasha Panic: Previously, I was leading to this, because it was just like that. We met very little with one of my exes: once, twice, and then he beat me. And I didn't understand why I was dating him. He constantly told me: "pluck your eyebrows", "change clothes", "where are your heels?", "Wear dresses", "go to make up" ... And did not expect anything from him. But I met him. And the guy we are currently dating ...

Sasha Panic: At our first meeting, I thought: "I need to somehow merge from him." And he told me that he thought the same way. As a result, we sat in the establishment for six hours, when we were already kicked out of there, closing.

Vika Duka: Six hours merged from each other ... Love.

Sasha Panic: It happened. And this person feels like he loves me as much as my family. Understands me as a sister ... even more. And I told him once: even if you didn’t have an arm, leg, eye or something else, I would never leave you! Because there is more to it ... I truly love him. He is my family.

Vika Duka: What is he doing now?

Sasha Panic: He continues to model, but now he almost abandoned it, because he did not want to leave me alone. He also works abroad. He is 25 years old, serious and has a subtle sense of humor. He speaks little.

Vika Duka: Like all real men.

Vika Duka: Let's talk about Panic in the city) Sasha, tell us where you go, rest, where do you go? Your locations are in St. Petersburg.

Sasha Panic: My favorite area is Petrogradka. It is very soulful and calm there ... I once lived there! Maybe there were just some good associations. I love the center because everything you need is there. I don't like the outskirts, I don't like sleeping bags, industrial zones.
I love going to Jack & Chan. I really love everyone there - owners, waiters, people.

Vika Duka: I also love this place: I can come there alone, and still be in the company - there is always one of my friends.

Sasha Panic: There you always find someone to chat with. In fact, I don't go anywhere.

Vika Duka: Homebody or a lot of work?

Sasha Panic: A lot of work…

Sasha Geo: How do you cook?

Sasha Panic: I cook very well, but recently began to doubt my abilities, because my man cooks SO delicious!

Vika Duka: This is from love. People in love always cook deliciously.

Sasha Geo: By the way, I am a great cook too! Simply gorgeous!

Vika Duka: What, in your opinion, is now lacking in St. Petersburg? And what's stopping him?

Sasha Panic: Now the point is that there is nowhere to go. A lot of my friends come to me for the weekend and ask the question: "where to go?" And I live here, but I don’t know ...

Vika Duka: At night? Agree.

Sasha Panic: Not enough! So he sat down, closed at night at home. There are a lot of places where you can arrange a party.

I grew up in the Novgorod region, in the village of Artem with a population of ninety people, mostly of retirement age. You can still see bears there and wolves drag dogs into the forest. At the age of nine, I definitely decided that I would become a model - I set myself a goal and was not going to quit. At school I was an outcast, no one spoke to me. Everyone around me thought that I was ugly, they mocked me. I guess I still prove my worth to the offenders and even to my parents. They did not really support me in my endeavor, they had standard attitudes that I needed to get married, have children. Dad is a truck driver, mom is a housewife - they believed that they had to choose an understandable profession. Therefore, after school, I came to St. Petersburg and entered college for an economic specialty.

At first I just had to survive... To support myself, I worked as a waitress at the Coffee House, baked pancakes for a week at the Tea Spoon, from where I left with burns. When I got a job at a restaurant of the Ginza Project chain, they did not want to take me to the position of a hostess with the words: "You are too non-standard." After persuasion, I was accepted for an internship, and on the very first day its owner, Vadim Lapin, came to the restaurant. Apparently, he liked me, so they took me on a permanent job. We can say that he is the first who appreciated my appearance, but the potential in me was seen by the model Olya Stepanchenko. I am very grateful to her, she has long been my main inspiration. Olya saw me at Loshadka Prty: for that party I made a headband of flowers a la Lana Del Rey, at Udelka I bought a dress that I cut and put on a sports top. That night Olya took me along and introduced me to everyone, including her then-boyfriend, promoter Dima Estrin. After some time, he invited me to work in a new project “Tao - I went there according to the concept of“ non-standard ”, although all the hostesses were Asian. But even working in restaurants, I constantly kept my goal in my head.

I didn't go to model school, just watched videos from the shows, was not listed with any agency, but pushed herself. She became her own manager. Moreover, I never paid photographers to shoot, as all models do at first, to build a portfolio. It's just that at some point they themselves began to write to me. Things went uphill when I started going to Moscow to shoot. In parallel, there were many castings, at which LMA director Alexander Nagorny very often told me: "Get out!" It was very upsetting to realize once again that I did not fit the standards. I see some girls models who have been doing plastic surgery since the age of sixteen. Perhaps I would have corrected my crooked nose, but I am afraid of the operation itself, and most importantly - what if I lose my charm, having received a standard appearance? When they began to take me to shows, I often heard the phrase: “What do you mean? How could you take it ?! I'm much better. " Several times the girls stole my clothes out of envy. But I never gave up, and the result was not long in coming. For the last year and a half, I have not gone to auditions, designers themselves write and invite to their shows, including Zhenya Malygina, Alexander Arutyunov, Bessarion, Yura Pitenin from Saint-Tokyo. If objectively, I am far from the most beautiful, for most people I have a strange appearance. I constantly worry that I have one eyebrow higher than the other, ugly chest, short legs. Perhaps these complexes are my defense mechanism so that the star in my forehead does not light up.

But I can't say that modeling is a therapy for self-doubt.... Rather, DJing helps you accept yourself. After all, as a child I played the piano, sang in the choir, and then went deaf in one ear, stopped making music and suffered a lot because of this. And almost two years ago, again, Olya Stepanchenko insisted that I become a DJ - I played the first set at the final year of her Headliner school. And soon I got a letter from the Moscow department store "Tsvetnoy" and was invited to perform at the secular Vogue Fashion Night Out. They put me alone on the floor where the main collaborations were presented, and they gave me a remote control on which only one channel worked instead of four. Just a nightmare! I could get hysterical and refuse to play, but I decided that I could handle it. When musician Sergei Lipsky found out what I was getting off the phone, he was stunned: "You are deaf in one ear, you also get off the phone!" Then I put on the hit Hercules and Love Affair - My House, and at that moment the members of this very New York group ran into the hall, began to sing along and dance next to me. It turned out that they also performed at the event. It seems to me that all my life the main thing that motivates me is a challenge: can I? And I do everything to be able. But I never doubted my chosen goal - I had already worked with the Alexander Wang team in Paris, now I need to get to know him personally, and also sign a contract with Victoria's Secret and go to the show with wings behind my back.

Text: Natalia Nagovitsyna

Model and DJ Sasha Panika knows a lot about good parties and how to dress up for them. Together with stylist Sergei Gilderman, she created 5 practical looks for various events. As part of our collaboration between Play With Time and Wonderzine, we learned why the resulting looks are perfect for any party.

About "evening" looks

I always look about the same - so much so that it is enough to add bright lipstick or more makeup on my eyes to go to any party. Therefore, for me there is no division of images into "everyday" and "evening". Unless a dress code is spelled out in the announcement of the event: I believe that it is obligatory, and the fulfillment of this wish is a manifestation of respect for the organizers on my part.

For some reason, I don’t have things that I bought specifically for the party. I don't wear bright accessories either, maximum - glasses and various hats, and I'm quite indifferent to catchy jewelry (I like only minimalistic silver, which suits everything). But I have memories associated with things. I am still offended for the coat, which I bought at a flea market for 300 rubles, and someone just left in it from one of the parties. But I try not to get attached to things and hope that I will soon forget this story.

What makes a party fun

I have been to hundreds of different parties, but if we talk about the coolest, then the one that we started with my friends two years ago comes to mind. We then celebrated the graduation school of stylists and at the same time my birthday, danced a lot, were the queens of the evening and ate cakes. It was really great. At this party I played my first DJ set, and now it has become my favorite hobby. And to be honest, I think I can save any party if I stand at the console. I play music that everyone has heard at least once, but I think this is my main advantage. It's very simple, that's why they always dance with me.

In general, after filming the Instagram sitcom Play With Time, I can single out three whales of a cool party: good music, good company, good mood. When these simple conditions are met, everything else happens by itself.

There are tons of reasons to love good parties, but one of the main ones is the people you can meet at them completely by accident. For example, three years ago in the legendary St. Petersburg "Mishka-bar" I met the lead singer of the Tesla Boy group Anton Sevidov. Anton said that I looked like an actress from the film "Liquid Sky" by Slava Zuckerman, and I said that I had not heard any of their songs. All night, the guys from the group and I had fun and danced, even the video was left. I still remember this party. It's cool that we met that way.

Modern disco

Firstly, with black I have long been on the "you" - this is the most versatile and practical color in the world, it is imperceptible that I shed on myself. Secondly, things with lurex are extremely popular now, and I really like it, because they don't show "how sloppy you are."

There are 80s echoes in this dress: a little from Sharon Stone, a little from Sabrina. It creates a very sexy silhouette, but does not look vulgar. Plus, it can be paired with black tights for a night out theater look.

Sergey, stylist

Clothes with lurex always look smart and, moreover, now it is one of the trends. The sleeves and collar make the look discreet, and the length accentuates the legs. When creating this look, I was inspired by the collection of Arthura Arabessera and the TV series "Vinyl", it turned out the era of disco in a modern way.

Denim for active

In denim - both for the ball and for nature. This House of Holland costume is bright and comfortable, in it I could easily dance at a country party, and climb a tree, while looking advantageous, but not too pretentious.

Sergey, stylist

Denim is a good option for any outing party: denim clothing is durable and comfortable, which is important for outdoor events. The shoes were chosen according to the same logic: a thick heel is comfortable.

Marilyn Monroe in a leather jacket

My friends joke that most of the time I dress like I'm inspired by the New York homeless. I usually wear the same things: boyfriend jeans, black trousers of different styles, white and black T-shirts, crop tops. But sometimes you really want to look like trying on the image of Marilyn Monroe, and this dress is just that case.

It often happens that in the morning, when you leave the house, it is warm outside, and in the evening it gets seriously colder. At such moments, my beloved leather jacket saves me. She is not only beautiful, but also very warm, just right for cool summer evenings. She also does not get wet and is not blown by the wind. And this white knitted bodycon suit is an absolute must-have, it's both comfortable and classically feminine, even with sneakers.

Sergey, stylist

Lightweight and versatile look. The white Uterque suit is perfect for city walks and parties, but can be replaced with pants and a top. In this situation, everything is decided by Sasha's jacket: she dilutes the too classic set of dress-shoes. Plus, good shoes are always a success (this time we chose # 21).

From bike to party

I just love to ride a bike, so in the summer my main goal is to dress as comfortably as possible: in a tight short skirt I would definitely feel uncomfortable. But it would be sly not to say that I really like to look bright, so you have to find compromises. It is important for me that I can get off my bike and go to some party.

In this look, I really like the rich burgundy color, it is bright, but not pretentious. I am delighted with the color palettes of this season: the combination of beige and flesh tones with bright scarlet and blue is very beautiful.