IKOS & KATELAB March, 2023 Katya Kovalchuk — founder of the clothing brand KateLab and home decor brand Katelabhome, stylist and friend of our shoe family. We met with Katya at home, in the kitchen. Over coffee, we discussed the most important things: the aesthetics of Katya and her brand, warmth, rituals that hold, dreams, war, patriotic T-shirts, and more. Frankly, such coffee conversations are the most sincere. And they are so needed in our time, so we are sincerely interested, sincerely support, and sincerely understand. A candlelit breakfast, a natural tablecloth, a cozy apartment. All of this is definitely about your aesthetics. Please tell us who and how influenced your sense of beauty? I inherited a lot from my dad. I noticed little things since childhood. When my dad passed away, I continued to do it. A piece of his beauty remained in me. I also always did everything I liked. And I continue to do it now. As a child, I went to all possible 100,500 clubs. I would get home after 8:00 PM with my mom. This shaped me. When I have dinner alone, the table is decorated, candles are burning. I love it, I feel it. The tablecloth adds coziness to the table. I have wanted to make KatelabHome for a long time. Therefore, with the beginning of the full-scale invasion, I decided: it will work out/it won't work out, I'll...