“Look where you swung.” Designer Kolobova – about Tarasova’s reaction to Shulskaya’s costume

Costume designer Svetlana Kolobova in an interview with told how the honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatiana Tarasova reacted to a costume made for a figure skater Valeria Shulskaya .

Shulskaya was training with Evgeni Plushenko, now the skater performs under Sergei Davydov.

– It was very funny. His mother came (Pluschenko still had them) and said: “We urgently need costumes.” I don’t know this girl at all. And then I persuaded them, “Let’s do something unusual!” “. And my mother said: “Oh, how can we get out of this, we are always so modest, we do not need to show ourselves. You sew us the usual unpretentious, so as not to be noticed. I said No. I will sew something for you that everyone will remember the athlete.

And when she came out in our dress, Tarasova said off-screen, “Look, where they swayed.” We even kept a record. And everyone remembered Leroux from this outing, comments poured in with admiration – both about the athlete and about the costumes for both programs, ”Kobova told .