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Meerim Abdykaparova is a foreign student at the Institute of Costume Design 草榴短视频, who came to study in St. Petersburg from Kyrgyzstan. Since childhood, Meerim did not doubt the choice of profession and wanted to become a fashion designer.

The girl learned to sew by looking at her mother, the owner of her own studio. Now Maerim is working on her first serious collection to present it at the Admiralty Needle festival of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design, and dreams of glorifying her native Kyrgyzstan on the world catwalk.

Meerim, you knew early on that you wanted to dedicate your life to designing clothes. Tell us about the time when you just learned to sew.

My mom is a seamstress. She owns her own studio, and since childhood I often went to work with her. It was very interesting to me, I could sit with my mother all night - my mother sews an order, and I help her. There were moments when my mother received urgent orders, for example, a wedding dress. Then she sat all night and sewed pebbles and other small details.

Mom didn't have time to teach me how to sew, so I just watched her do it, then sat down at the typewriter myself, despite the fact that the cars are very large and can be dangerous for the child. Somewhere from the third grade I have already started sewing clothes for my dolls. Then I made diary covers for my classmates.

Back in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in Bishkek, my aunt lives, who has her own production workshop, where she sews clothes for brands. Every summer from the ninth grade I went to Bishkek and worked in her workshop.

Already in the fourth grade, I decided to become a designer, and now everything that I learned then came in handy for me to study at the university.

Now you are the mentor of the Adaptation Center for Foreign Students of 草榴短视频. How did you adapt yourself when you just moved to St. Petersburg?

In the first year it was very difficult. I thought about how I would study here all alone. In St. Petersburg, I have no acquaintances, I have not yet made friends with anyone. Then I called my mother and said: "that's it, I'm leaving, I don't want to study here." I was ready to give up everything, I thought to take "akadem." But then I realized that I would lose a whole year, and when I return back, everything will be the same, so it is better to endure this time. Looking ahead, I will say that at that moment the University Center for Adaptation of Foreign Students helped me a lot.

I also thought then to transfer to Moscow, because my relatives live there, next to whom it will be easier for me to adapt. I started looking for opportunities for translation, and it distracted me for a while, and then I just had friends among my classmates, I began to communicate with the guys from the Center for Adaptation of Foreign Students, and I had already forgotten that I once wanted to transfer.

The center helped me a lot, so I decided to study and become a mentor for other foreign students. Now I myself want to support the guys who are also difficult to adapt. I want to help them find friends, recommend them events at the university or in the city where they will be interested, and the most important thing is to help them fill out the documents correctly, since there are a lot of them, and they are all important for studying in Russia.

You study, study with foreign students. Do you have free time and how do you spend it?

There is almost no free time, mostly, I am busy studying or in the Center. Sometimes I go to museums, to the Hermitage or to the Russian Museum, for inspiration. I also like to spend time with my friends from the Kyrgyz community in St. Petersburg, for which our consulate also organizes events, for example, in honor of Chingiz Aitmatov's birthday or in honor of the Navruz spring festival.

I also volunteer at city events, sports matches - football, hockey. I also help at fashion shows, for example, at the Petersburg Seasons competition and the Admiralty Needle festival, which was established by our university.

At university, you study costume design. Would you like to take part in the Admiralty Needle as a designer?

Yes, this summer, when I return to my homeland in Kyrgyzstan, I plan to sew a collection specifically for the Admiralty Needle and apply for a competition in the fall. What inspires me most now is evening fashion. I want to develop a collection of clothes for elegant feminine exits to the museum or for dinner. But the work must correspond to the declared theme of the competition, so when creating models I will focus on this.

We have a difficult profession. It is necessary to show yourself now, to show your talent, because if you do not do it on time, you will not be able to become a cool designer.

I am only in my second year and until I had my big project, only clothes that I sewed for myself and my friends, but I try to participate in fashion events, go to shows, including working there as a volunteer to study the process from the inside. This experience will help me when I start showing my own collections at competitions.

You are a very purposeful student, but do you already have plans for the future?

While I am studying, I want to try everything in our profession. I even think about getting a practice in a theater workshop to work with stage costumes. I want to figure out what I like to create the most.

And when I finish my bachelor's degree, I plan to get experience working in fashion houses in Russia or abroad, and then return to my homeland and open my own fashion house to show the world the beauty of our Kyrgyz fashion, our folk patterns. Now we are just working with the theme of ethnic costume. I study the meanings of our ornaments and try to rethink the folk Kyrgyz costume, from the point of view of modern design.

In fact, not many Kyrgyz designers are known abroad. Perhaps I can only name Arzubek Vonam, who develops his own brand and makes it so that the fashion of Kyrgyzstan is recognized in other countries.

I also want to become a famous designer, to glorify my university and my country. I hope my dream comes true!