Herman Shalumov

I love to cook, but I am too short of time for the thing, and when I am not I start eating that much that I’d better cross my shape, and I am highly fanatic about the latter you know. I tackled the problem by employing a cook. She comes to my place every morning and cooks breakfast, dinner and supper. Well, sometimes I feel like scolding you know when I again find out that it’s a healthy food with some steam roasted vegetables that I have to eat. But that’s the reason I set a very high value on my cook.

Once I paid Euro 20 000 for one meter of material (Gobelin tapestry dated back to the times of Louis) at some auction in France. I can’t say that the article made out of it was cheap enough, but it’s uniqueness will make it deserve being introduced at some other auction after a while, and it will be me named as the possessor.

Well educated people in the sphere of fashion need such boutiques as mine to have the possibility to acquire fashion masterpieces made of fur. Still unfortunately since the time the USSR collapsed some ladies haven’t been able to develop a sensitivity to fashion, moreover many of them are just afraid of becoming beautiful.

My boutique is not massively available. Once you have decided to get such a valuable article you are to find it. But this is also not enough. To get into the place you are to find people possessing the exclusive visitor’s card and can recommend you as the prospective possessor of the same card. Well, there’s another way, like to try and to get on the list which might give you the opportunity to come. I mean it’s not an easy task to get to the fur connoisseurs’ club.

I am pretty serious about the stylistics of my products: they are beautiful and strict on the outside and they are expensive and hand-made from within. I don’t aim at insulting anybody but many Russian designers stress out the within of the clothes only.

I like pastel shades and ivory colours. My house’s interior is styled after the XVIII century. You will find much of a stucco work, figurines, columns and other kinds of dust collectors there. However recently I’ve started to look more to art deco and Stile liberty. Well I prevented myself from demonstrating Cinderella’s symptom via employing a home maid. Otherwise I would never leave my house, brushing and cleaning every other millimeter of it.

I am of an extreme type. I like base jumping. You’ve got all your life floating in your mind before you start off and that assures you that it was not in vain. And after it’s all over you realize now that you have survived you are going to work more intensively. Well, I also like diving into the Indian Ocean, snowboarding and parachute jumping.

A candy period usually lasts for some two or three weeks after which the relations either develop or transform to friendship. Mutual understanding is what really matters, but in my case my constant being busy and crazy rhythm prevent people from understanding me well.

I want to have children so much. I want to get two boys and one girl. Kids stand for happiness, mood, new generation and responsibility. Today I have a niece and a nephew, they are twins. I get that high when I look at their photos that I feel being capable to remove mountains. I know for sure that the first child of mine will arrive when I am 27.

Well, foreign countries? Taking into consideration the fact that I was born in Russia and I grew up here foreign countries will always remain just foreign countries for me. I am cosmopolitan which enables me to live in Moscow today, to move to Milan tomorrow and to Copenhagen after a while. There’re places I like to visit, there are places where I like to relax and there are ones where I just feel comfortable to eat. Let’s take for instance Essaouira (Morocco), they cook delicious sea products there and in Marrakesh for example I can find precious antiques to ad to my collection.

I just can’t rub through the morning if there’s no Colgate Total tooth paste, another thing I just can’t stand is a restaurant where they just can’t properly serve a customer and for example serve the dishes not from the right but from the left. Well, I am not hysterical person though.

Once I had a chinchilla, it’s an amusing animal. It even got its own palace. But my guests’ undying interest in what clothes article it was going to become and who was going to wear the thing I decided to give it to my friends.