Tanya Sochivets Aka Lara Croft
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- Tanya Croft, Kyiv, Ukraine. 7,094 likes 84 talking about this. Lara Croft' cosplayer.
- Lara Croft takes on the New East in this hilarious project. Like Lara Croft,” Ira Lupu told The Calvert Journal. Tatiana Sochivets aka Tanya Croft.
Telfar x White Castle, NYFW @ DIS Magazine Text: Ira Lupu Photos: Sean Schermerhorn No ATM for time — seeking the sublime of brown. Black. White. Tonight. (Excerpt from a Telfar-inspired poem by Jamie Richardson, the Vice President of White Castle. Written on a hamburger carton.) After a rabidly loud party crusade for America’s iconic fast food chain restaurant last fall, fashion designer Telfar Clemens has become the king of White Castle once again, now this February. To celebrate a NYFW catwalk show for new Fall 2016 ‘Tricolor’ collection, he brought a full regimen of his knights to a Times Square haunt. This time, not only ‘the banquet hall’ was conquered but also ‘the dungeon’ — the White Castle’s stifling utility basement exclusively given to provide more dancing space at the party.
Among the crusaders were musicians Venus X, Asma Maroof of Nguzunguzu, and Joey Labeija — with a mission to unfix the club kid audience; Fatima Al Qadiri and Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) — to cheer everybody up with their mere presence; and models who walked in this or previous brand’s seasons — just to enjoy some of their usually forbidden fruits, namely the generously served oily fries and White Castle’s original sliders, and express their love for Telfar himself. ‘It’s not normal — last season the models lifted him on their shoulders and chanted his name after the show’, tells Babak Radboy, creative director and main cerebral force behind the brand. ‘That’s not a thing that happens at fashion shows.’ Well, and hosting a throbbing aftershow party at a ‘crave cave’ with certain stoner street cred, even if the place is owned by the brand’s warm-hearted sponsor, is not a thing that (normally) happens during fashion weeks. ‘Is it true they are having a fashion week party at White Castle now? Really?’ — in low whisper and with fluffy eyebrows raised, a cashier of nearby deli asked me. (To confess: I walked there with my friend, six-foot Ukrainian model, when after tasting vodka from soda cups and jumping to the beats of Labeija’s raggaeton we suddenly had a $1-honeybun crave alert.) Such an unlikely synergy is not a big deal for Telfar, a brand that, number one, proclaims it has nothing to do with mainstream fashion notion of luxury, and, number two, has an element of merging the unmergeable in its DNA. And also It all was not to happen.
‘Originally, this season we were going to do the party in Brooklyn’, explains Babak. ‘We even considered the Bronx out of fear of repetition — but then I asked to see the basement of the Times Square location and we were pretty excited The feeling of the party last year was really that something was wrong — that it shouldn’t be happening and the basement had that in spades. But you have to understand it is not a special effect — it really shouldn’t be happening.’ In the end, the spontaneous surrealistic party may have resulted in pragmatic success — some weirdly wise and super-contemporary PR for both ingenious Telfar and a bit frumpy, 95-year old White Castle. Yet on the intersection of worlds as craven and commercially oriented as fashion and fast food businesses often are, it was the most human and sincere event possible — and no excessive concepts behind. According to Radboy: ‘The collection was about clothes and the party was about enjoyment. Imagine that!’.
PURE OBSESSION. Tanya Croft, the Tomb Raider Cosplayer Text: Ira Lupu Photo: Kristina Podobed Original project: Cosplayers often become a target for deep psychological analysis, in an attempt to expose their escapism, sexual deviations, childhood traumas and other messes leading to creation of fake identities. But Tanya Croft may prove that sometimes copying the protagonist’s looks is just passionate and lasting fun, yet with a pixilated twist.
‘What do you know about madness?’ — asks Alex Beyket, a 26-year old Eastern European IT-specialist. I assume I’ve learned something, but from the ordinary looks of this guy, I won’t ever tell he himself had faced something weird in life. Yet he did, as he dates Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider.
Or, actually, her living embodiment in the flesh of Tatiana Sochivets, or Tanya Croft, who has been cosplaying the legendary video game bombshell for 10 years now. ‘Madness is when we suddenly leave our office duties and everyday routine behind, grab camera and several cosplaying outfits, and escape the city — to do a new photo shoot’, — explains Alex, who is not only Tanya’s boyfriend but also her permanent assistant, photographer, meticulous costume and accessory designer, and sometimes even cosplay partner (as Tomb Raider’s Kurtis Trent). Once, in a crusade for desirable pictures, Alex and Tanya have swum up to a real sunken ship — all holey, rusty, and rather dangerous to hang out in. Last time, they headed from their native Kyiv to the Southern part of Ukraine — and descended Odessa catacombs, extreme and tangled underground tunnels used by local partisans during the Second World War. Only to make a ‘Lara Croft: Reborn’-styled set, of course. It all still doesn’t sound that ‘mad’ in terms of the unfathomable, warped world we live in.
But such mesmerisation by a virtual mass-culture heroine, and such living manifestation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnivalesque concept, may definitely seem peculiar to average working class minds. So for Tanya, how did this whole thing with Lara start?
‘Quite simple. At the age of 15, I’ve tried to play Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness on my sister’s ancient PC, and since that time, I couldn’t stop’, — the cosplayer jabbers in her charming mix of rigid Russian language and melodical Ukrainian accent. ‘First, I’ve found tight black top and shorts, cut the fingers off my gloves, made the ponytail, though my hair was rather short I didn’t know people do same things until I’ve found pictures of Jennifer Morgan, Lara Croft’s professional lookalike.’ The story makes me giggle, because I remember myself at the same age, making same ponytail with cheap styling gel and demonically seeking military boots and gun holsters — to bring real Tomb Raider to a backwater school party. And the clothes I pick today, they still often have something Croft-ish about them. But why this girl have gone so far, and I haven’t? Tanya Croft’s cheerfulness, and her innocently upright, a bit discursive manner of speaking leads to a thought that all this constant buzzing about cosplayers being all defective, lurking under fake identities to conceal their own injured personalities, is just another pile of bullshit. It seems like the babe is enjoying herself to the fullest.
Becoming Tomb Raider for a while must be just another tool for feeling even more cool. And those among you that are without sin of copying something, or somebody (although in a less obvious way), may you cast a first stone at Tanya Croft. But still, like a dull blood-seeking shark, I attempt to find the trigger. Maybe the image of Lara Croft gives Tanya some personal features she lacks?
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‘Maybe, but just a little bit. It’s more like we have something in common initially. I’ve always had this straightforward, a bit masculine nature. At the same time, Alex calls me ‘a little bitch’. I don’t think I have any problems with own sexuality.’ ‘Actually, being Lara is a very serious part of my life’, — Tanya proceeds. ‘Due to her, I’ve found my vocation, my loving and supportive boyfriend and even my previous job of a video game club administrator. Funnily enough, I’ve decided to quit because it didn’t leave me enough time for cosplaying.
And no, cosplay is not my bread and butter, I don’t earn anything with it’. So it is all just determined fun? ‘Yeah, I would say so. There is no specific intention in this process for me.
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We’re simply trying to make our classical Lara better and better, and to keep up with the newest releases, like the recent ‘Rise of the Tomb Raider’. Perfecting my looks, costumes, photos For the accurately detailed costumes Alex have made, I’ve been winning prizes from official Tomb Raider developers — that was nice, but still not an aim.’ ‘I’ve lots of admirers, but some people think I’m totally nuts. Even my mother keeps telling me, like, come on, you’re 26 now, you’d better stop your disguise games and devote yourself to a family life. But I don’t care.
I’m just obsessed.’. Tanya Croft @ Tissue Magazine Text: Phillip Schmidt Idea & production: Ira Lupu Photos: Kristina Podobed Model: Tanya Croft When Ira Lupu and Kristina Podobed discovered professional Ukrainian cosplayer Tanya Croft and her self-made 3D visualizations on the web, they immediately recalled their own mesmerisation for Tomb Raider and unsuccessful attempts of finding gun holsters to wear with tight shorts, top and black boots to a Halloween school party. They invited her to take some photos and got to know a fun and cheerful person and her friend and manager who told frankly from their previous experiences and the craze of detailing the costumes. We wish you the same fun we had with the pictures of the Ukrainian duo. And do not miss the release of Rise of the Tomb Raider early next year, freaks! Rita and Odessa @ Calvert Journal Text: Ira Lupu Photos: Anastasiya Lazurenko, Daria Svertilova, Kristina Podobed Model: Rita Karachinskaya “There is a city I see in a dream” Soviet singer Leonid Utyosov used to sing, nostalgically alluding to his native Odessa.
For Utyosov, as for thousands of other locals, this weirdly charming Ukrainian port city was to be left behind forever — and be deeply missed. The same happened with model Rita Karachinskaya: in 2014, after a series of explosions in Odessa, she decided to emigrate. “I’ll never forget the day I left,” says Karachinskaya.
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“When passing by Odessa Russian Theatre, I felt this bitter lump in the throat and burst into tears.” Abroad, Karachinskaya longed for Odessa very much: its shabby architecture, the often comically luxurious outfits worn by southern women, and the nourishing, homey cuisine. Set in a typically old local sanatorium (called, of course, “Odessa”), female photographic trio —, and — recreated their friend’s nostalgic dreams. The artists, who individually work with analogue photography and are known internationally, found a way to combine their varied signature styles: Lazurenko’s natural and erotic, Svertilova’s pristine and sensitively harmonic, Podobed’s bold and a bit kinky. “Sitting in the Soviet-style canteen and enjoying cheap condensed milk, at the same time as sipping champagne and wearing excessive jewellery It was so me,” Karachinskaya recalls. ”So me — and so Odessa.”.