Gosha Rubchinskiy Artist

From 032c: "At the age of 26, and having only completed three collections since the founding of his eponymous label in 2008, Rubchinskiy has enthused a cult following both at home in Moscow and abroad for his articulation of post-Soviet youth.



Rubchinksiy grew up in the aftermath of Gorbachev’s political and economic restructuring, or Perestroika—a key factor in the fall of Communism. Once an avid reader of OM magazine, Russia’s answer to The Face, Rubchinskiy infiltrated his country’s burgeoning fashion scene as a stylist and makeup artist, and after five years on the circuit, he decided to begin his own label, thereby splitting with Moscow’s sartorial glamor.