The Chapurin brand is well known not only in Russia.Over the 16 years of his work, Igor Chapurin has achieved success in almost all areas of design. etk-fashion.com found out the secret Igor Chapurin founded his own "Fashion House" back in 1998, after winning the Paris competition for young fashion designers Nina Ricci and an internship in Paris. Over the 16 years of his work, Igor has become famous not only as one of the most popular Russian fashion designers, who invented a unique method of embroidery, was the first to weave clothes from straw and was included in the official schedule of Fashion Week in Paris, but also as an interior and industrial designer. He produces his own line of furniture, lamps and parquet ChapurinCasa. He collaborates with theaters (he is the author of the scenery and costumes for three ballet productions of the Bolshoi). He designed the VIP lounge at Domodedovo Airport, the Vesna restaurant in Moscow, and even the facades of the Wimm-Bill-Dann company's workshops. Last year, the designer came up with an extravagant design for the Rowenta Steam Force DW9245 iron, and this year, the fashionable Palette de Maquillage for Clarins (blush, eye shadow, lengthening mascara, and lipstick).
Last Wednesday, Igor Chapurin met with architects and designers at the Design & Decoration Center, where he talked about how fashion is penetrating interior design and what is born from it.
Igor Chapurin, fashion designer:— Our modern life is a continuous flow of information coming from various spheres of human life. We receive it quickly and process it just as quickly, transforming each into a form convenient for us. Getting into the interior world, a fashion designer merges into an unfamiliar environment, but he continues to develop, while trying to preserve his individuality, his recognizable style. Creating clothes, furniture, interiors, Igor always tries to preserve his uniqueness. — Fluidity is very important to me, — he says. — A person should feel comfortable and at ease wearing the clothes I created, sitting on the sofa I designed. We can highlight six components that, according to the designer, are important in the creation of any thing:
- comfort,
- Color harmony,
- proportionality,
- Transformability or functionality,
- Air as an element of design,
- Light as an element of design.
Igor Chapurin, fashion designer:— I create objects that people should not just like, they should love them for many years, so details, textures, and a sense of handcraft are very important in them. Everything should be tactilely pleasant, so all my furniture is made of natural materials such as wenge, leather, suede, matte metal. I believe that the shape should be original and unusual, and the colors and textures should be only natural.
Igor believes that in interior design, as well asin fashion, everything is important - color, shape, material, print, texture… Moreover, colors play a huge role. They can visually influence not only the shape, but also the perception of the image as a whole. The designer's favorite colors are chocolate brown, graphite gray, soft beige, olive, yellow. Igor Chapurin, fashion designer, designer: - I prefer natural, but complex colors that, when mixed, would create a multifaceted and multi-level image, and not a straightforward art object, as in pop art. Often, playing with light and matte / glossy surfaces helps to achieve the desired result. Reflecting from them, refracting in others and disappearing in others, the light plays an important role, becoming an integral part of the interior. I learned this from working in the theater, where light is often the only way to convey the mood of the reality surrounding the hero.
What colors await us in the new season?
Igor Chapurin, fashion designer:— In the upcoming spring-summer season, we can expect complex colors and “dirty” shades of simple colors: dusty yellow, noble pink, white and olive with a slight grayish tint… All the colors seem to be a little dirty from spring dirt. After all, even snow turns black in spring! Such colors are easier to combine, creating harmonious and pleasing to the eye images. I’ll tell you a secret that I already have a color palette for the fall-winter collection 2015/2016 ready! But this is a secret for now. I’ll just say that the highlight will be noble emerald and graphite with a slight shine… This wonderful meeting with Igor Chapurin took place thanks to the assistance of Design & Decoration Center (dd-center.ru) and with the support of our portal roomble.com
