WASHINGTON, July 2 (RIA Novosti) – A 21-year-old Russian designer whose last venture in the United States opened and closed in the span of seven months, is to launch her designer label “Lublu” in the US this summer, Fashionista.com reported.
“Lublu,” which means “I love” in Russian, was launched by Kira Plastinina at Milan Fashion Week in 2008 when she was just 15, but has been unavailable in the US until now.
Her previous American retail venture crashed and burned when she rapidly opened 12 “Kira Plastinina” stores in 2008, only to file for chapter eleven bankruptcy seven months after cutting the ribbon on her first outlet in New York City.
Plastinina will open the first “Lublu” store in Dallas, Texas, where she is a student at Southern Methodist University.
Plastinina’s father, Sergei Plastinin, is the multi-millionaire former CEO of Wimm-Bill-Dann, one of the largest dairy product companies in Europe.
