{"id":9468,"date":"2025-01-20T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/?post_type=members&#038;p=9468"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:51:06","slug":"natalia-muzychkina","status":"publish","type":"members","link":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/about\/members\/natalia-muzychkina\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalia Muzychkina"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure><strong>Director of the Fashion Museum<\/strong><\/figure>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1_natalja.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\r\n<div class=\"image-description\">\r\n<p class=\"image-title\">Natalia Muzychkina and Alexandre Vassiliev<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Having graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Natalia joined the Artists\u2019 Union and worked with ceramics and sculpture for fifteen years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2_natalja.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\r\n<div class=\"image-description\">\r\n<p class=\"image-title\">Water vessels \u201cThree Dancing Figures\u201d by Natalia Muzychkina<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Natalia: \u201cAt the time of my graduation, the work of an architect was typically rather monotonous \u2013 mainly working with the adaptation of standard-design concrete-panel buildings. All of us remember the period in the Soviet architecture which had left behind identical dull city districts throughout the country.\u201d Upon returning from the US where Natalia had lived for a few years, she came back to the architect\u2019s profession and turned to design. Natalia: \u201cAn architect creates the image and drawings for the creative product without laying a finger on a brick. However, my passion is making things with my own hands. I really like to design objects on my own, and I like to come up with engineering decisions. This may be unusual for a woman, but it does help me in my work.\u201d Natalia currently resides in Riga. Natalia: \u201cRiga is a stunning city. As an architect, I even dare say it\u2019s a perfect city, as if it were made for a modern person: it is green and not too big, with the correct balance between the old and the new and with beautiful suburbs. Riga\u2019s streets are remarkably good for walking and biking.\u201d In 2014, Natalia found a premises in the Old City in which she could create a fashion museum. Natalia: \u201cI love history and culture, so it was my dream to create a museum. In Riga, I came across an old friend whose name is Alexandre Vassiliev. Long ago, back in our school days, we would sometimes troop together and, inspired by Sasha\u2019s passion for collecting costumes, walked the streets and boulevards in large groups, all of us dressed up in ancient clothes, catching smiles or, sometimes, scowls from passers-bys.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3_natalja.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\r\n<div class=\"image-description\">\r\n<p class=\"image-title\">Alexandre Vassiliev, Natalia Muzychkina and friends. Around\u00a01977<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The idea of a museum dedicated entirely to fashion seemed magnificent to me, and Alexandre Vassiliev approved of it and suggested for me to begin working with his Foundation. Beauty, everyday life, history, culture, and its myths \u2013 in a word, the fabric of time. \u201cFabric\u201d \u2013 did you get it (pun intended)? So, it\u2019s about fashion again, and all of it seems so interesting that you want to continuously talk about it, to show it to others, and share your visions and ideas with the audience.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10310,"template":"","group":[182],"class_list":["post-9468","members","type-members","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-creators-en"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members\/9468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/members"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/members"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fashionmuseumriga.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}