Julia Dalakian

I had never had an aim to be successful or to be the best of the best. My aim is certain — to be a highly skilled professional.

In terms of mass media and publicity success is rather an artificial thing than a natural one. It all depends on one’s suite — if that suite is loud you don’t have to do anything by yourself.

“Julia Dalakian” — is a brand for aesthetes, for people, who are keen on beautiful things. These are very sensuous clothes an artist or a beautiful-minded person would appreciate.

I’m an artist searching after the ideal.

I will never be able to love any man more than my work. But my love is enough for everything.

People began to use stylists’ services because they weren’t able to put together some clothes and had no time to think about such things.

Making a hair-set, made-up and silicon filled media character out of me… No, I do have neither time nor willing to do it.

I’m known by name quite well. But representing myself as a kind of lionne or a media character… No, Lord forbid!

Russian designers are generally known by sight, but no one knows what they do. It is absolutely opposite in the West.

I’m an open person, but I try to deal with it, because amid a certain level of notability it may lead to deplorable consequences.

Every history of success is a colossal struggle that mustn’t be interesting to anyone. It never occurred to me to document the fact that I worked, for example, with Cavalli.

If something doesn’t sell well, that’s my fault. By no means can you refer to being misunderstood or to haute couture… That’s just bullshit.

I am envied since kindergarten. But I don’t understand for what. It seems to me I’m too far away from being a millionaire cruising on his yacht. I’m not Isadora Duncan in the context of love affairs. But I permanently arouse that feeling in people since I was five.

Depression is idlers’ trouble; it is common for lazy people, for those who aren’t able to give anything to others.

I got into coping with everything by myself. I can’t say that it is very convenient but maybe it is a particularity of living in Russia — do it yourself!

I am a woman of settled habits. It was very difficult for me to come to a decision to buy a new apartment. But as hard it is for me to resolve to do something, so easily I get used to things already happening.

Someone stole a safe from my office in February. I was very upset. But today, when absolutely everything is worked off, I feel very proud of that period of my life.

I adore Zaytsev. I learned to live in this profession from him.

I made scary people like Peter James very popular among my friends. But as for me, there was not and could not be anyone as ironic, educated, modern and classy, as Cortasar was.

The art of living for other people — that’s what important for me, not the commercial art.

The true trendsetters are common people, who blend different peculiarities and know nothing about art. No person devoted to art can be a trendsetter. He can be a wiseman or just a kind person, but not a trendsetter.

A dream… In days to come, when I leave my world of colourful pinafores, I’ll begin to draw again, as I have some nice skills in colored graphic art. I want to return to it badly.