Background
Olga Sorokina was born on January 21, 1985 in Vitebsk (Belarus).
Olga Sorokina was born on January 21, 1985 in Vitebsk (Belarus).
Father - Boris Sorokin, mother - Tatyana Sorokina (lives in Moscow). Younger sister - Tatyana Sorokina (lives in Italy). Citizenship – Russian.
At 17 years old, she was enrolled in a NEXT model agency (Moscow).
In 2005, Fashion television named her model of the year, thereby winning the golden ticket to the world of fashion. After reading the book of the fashion historian Alexander Vassilyev "Beauty in Exile" about Russian fashion houses that existed many years ago, Olga discovered the history of IRFĒ Fashion House.
After an inspiring meeting with Xenia Sheremeteva-Sphiris, the granddaughter of the legendary founders of the IRFĒ fashion house, Felix Yussoupov and Irina Romanova at their family house in Paris, Olga decided to try herself "on the other side of the runway" as the creative director In 2009, the design studio and the Maison IRFĒ showroom were established by Olga in Paris on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 4.
IRFĒ"s collections are sold in more than 50 stores in 20 countries around the world.
In March 2010, the first Maison IRFĒ corner opened in Moscow (TSUM), then in Barvikha (Barvikha Luxury Village), DLT (Street St. Petersburg) and a store on the island of Capri (Italy). In October 2013, due to the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, Olga presented the first runway show of the Maison IRFĒ collection during Paris Fashion week. Takes part in charity events, and supporting projects related to the arts and culture in different countries of the world: Art of Elysium and the Elton John Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Foundation in Los Angeles, AmFAR in New York and Cannes, SIDACTION charity dinner in Paris, a retrospective exhibition of the British artist Marc Quinn at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum and the Vadim Zakharov"s project "Dead Languages Dance" in the framework of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow.