Lana Shuganova is a Belarusian fashion designer and a stylist who just founded her bag brand SOOFRE Berlin. We met Lana Shuganova in her brand new pop-up shop in Prenzlauer Berg and we talked to her about her favorite hometown memories, Belarusian designers as well as why she makes Berlin a bit more colorful. Where are you from? I am from Minsk, Belarus. What is the strongest memory you have of your hometown? My strongest memory? It would probably our Dacha…
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Lara was born in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude though later her family would move to Irkutsk. During high school Lara studied German and went on an educational excursion to Germany to stay in…
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Victoria Filina is the owner of studio Tineola in Kreuzberg from where she has developed her brand of the same name which features several lines of accessories. The first line of accessories has been…
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Natalia was born and raised in Moscow but departed the capital for St.Petersburg as soon as she finished school to attend university. She immediately fell in love with the city and shortly began to…
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This is Irina. The beautiful and most talented Belarusian had lived in Gomel, the second-most populous city of Belarus, all her life. As a young student she studied Economics in her hometown although it…
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Zhanna was born in Omsk, Russia although she grew up in Kazakhstan. She went back to her home town in order to study Intercultural Communication and languages at university; German, French and Turkish to be…
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Meet the lovely Russian couple Ivan and Maria. Ivan was born in Ivanovo and grew up in Riga. At a young age he moved to Krasnodar where he lived with his family until the…
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Meet the fabulous Lera Nicoletti and the even more fabulous toys she makes. Lera was born and raised in Kazakhstan and she moved to Saint Petersburg for her studies when she was 18 years…
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This is the lovely Rimma Günther. Rimma was born and raised in Crimea until she came straight to Berlin. That was in 2003. In Ukraine she had already worked as a make-up artist and…
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This is Nadja. Nadja is originally from Moscow and moved to Berlin 2,5 years ago. In Moscow she worked for the British Higher School of Art & Design as well as a PR agent…