Ksenia Chilingarova

Secular lady and passionate fashionista Ksenia Chilingarova, creative director of winterwear brand Arctic Explorer, gave an interview with Madonna Moore for her YouTube channel. The daughter of the famous polar explorer and Hero of Russia Artur Chilingarov talked about her boyfriend, her relationship with her father and her attitude to fashion. We have collected the most interesting quotes.

about the relationship with the father

When my father heard that I was getting a job, he shook his head and thought: “Why do I have such an abnormal child, I was going to study to be a lawyer, get married, have a grandchild, everything would be fine for him, now he has an Italian boyfriend too”.

about a young man

My boyfriend Nikolo doesn’t speak Russian. I’ve been learning Italian for three years, but it’s a long process. I would like to learn how to write fluently one day. We met in a strange way, this is a story for a novel. I am interested in numerology and my friend asked me to “count” her and her boyfriend. I counted, looked at the numbers, and thought, “God, these are the perfect numbers for me.” A year and a half later, we met him by chance at a restaurant. A friend brought him to our table, and during the conversation it turned out that these numbers belonged to him. We started dating.

We have Italian passions: we endure and we swear. Russians are less inclined to express their feelings, we are more restrained. I have been living between Italy and Russia for three years. Previously, it was possible to get there in three hours, and now at 12. Our relationship is constantly being tested by some kind of disaster, first it was a pandemic (he caught us in Milan at fashion Week), after a while we broke up on the line, because it turned out that the boyfriend was blocked (we didn’t see each other for two months). He accepts all my friends who went to rallies and had to leave. Many photographers and artists left because there was no development here. All Italian and French friends are very supportive, they understand everything and are ready to help.

About shopaholic

Yes, I really like clothes. At some point, I realized that I was going from being a shopaholic to being a collector. Like in a computer game. I started buying things consciously: something that could reflect time, fashion, trends and trends. This is a form of stress management. When I feel bad, I buy things for myself. I am infinitely in love with clothes.

Ksenia Chilingarova is a well-known fashionista and thanks to her fashionable bows she regularly enters our reviews.

about contemporary art

I started by purchasing the work of contemporary photographers. Destiny always leads me to something. The collection started like this: I participated in the auction and bought Olga Chernysheva’s work, I liked it so much that I soon realized that I wanted to collect contemporary Russian art. Collectors are a certain type of people, they really need to have something. I bought some jobs in installments. I never thought of collecting as an investment.

About life during a special military operation

Whoever you meet is a special operation today and before everything turns into a pandemic. I perceive the current state as zero because everything you did before stopped working in that format. You have to start all over again. At first I resisted it and then I realized that the past cannot be changed, the future is unknown, but the present is given to us. I have to try to do something, it’s hard for me to make a mess, then I got even more negative thoughts.

I’m one of those people who needs to move, so I’m getting through what happened. My father’s motto is don’t lose heart. I also follow this rule.