Costume designer Kostornaya Dmitrieva: “She had an arrogant and disrespectful attitude”

Costume designer Daria Dmitrieva spoke to about the Russian figure skater’s disrespectful attitude. Alena Kostornaya who still hasn’t paid for some of the costumes in the show.

On Wednesday, designer Alena Kuklycheva wrote on social media that she was ending her collaboration with Kostornaya and asked the skater to return all the costumes she had not paid for. Later, the designer told that Kostornaya owed her 240,000 rubles for sewing costumes, but the figure skater told her that she owed nothing. The athlete noted that the contract for sewing competition costumes for the 2023/24 season was concluded with the Moscow Figure Skating Federation.

— We really have this agreement with the federation, and we are waiting for money, I don’t know if it will come. As for the costumes for the show, there was a personal agreement with Alena that we would make them for free, but Alena would return them. Three years later, they still haven’t returned. In general, it was difficult to work. All these situations two days before the performance, “sew it”. Insolent and disrespectful attitude. This is why all this resulted in a publication on social networks.

— Did you write to him to ask him to return the costumes? What did she answer?

“We asked to return the suits if they were not needed, and if they were needed, we asked them to pay for them. » As a result, she sent the costumes that were not needed and left the necessary ones, but they have not yet been paid for, Dmitrieva told .