Born in Velikie Luki. At the Vitebsk Technological University he specialised as a "designer of women's clothes". An early highlight of his career came with his victory at the Nina Ricci Young Designer Competition in Paris, after which the designer created the dresses for finalists of the beauty competitions Miss Europe, Miss World and Miss Universe. The designer's first collection entitled To Russia with Love was presented in 1995.
From 1996 to 1998, at the personal invitation of Princess Irene Galitzine, Igor Chapurin developed the designs for the first line of Italian couture house Galitzine. In 1998 the collection Chapurin-99 received the Golden Mannequin award from the Russian Association of High Fashion, and the designer became a member of the Association. He has received a prize from the magazine Harper’s Bazaar in the category Style. That same year Igor Chapurin began to collaborate with theatre: he designed the costumes for Oleg Menshikov's production The Woes of Wit.
With the 1998 opening of his own boutique in the centre of Moscow the story of the House of CHAPURIN began. The brand gradually attained international status: the designer's clothes have appeared in multi-brand boutiques throughout Europe and Asia.
In 2003 Igor Chapurin worked on the costumes and sets for Kirill Simonov's ballet Madame Lioneli (premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in London), and he has created theatre costumes for Kirill Serebrennikov's production of The Demon. In 2004 together with the company Swarovski, Igor Chapurin produced the costumes for the Russian gymnasts Alina Kabaeva and Irina Chashchina who represented Russia at the Olympic Games in Athens.
In 2005 Igor Chapurin was awarded the "Designer of the Year" prize by the Russian edition of GQ magazine. That year he became the first Russian fashion designer to whom the Bolshoi Theatre gave the rights to create the set designs and costumes for ballet productions. The result of this collaboration was the ballet Jeu de cartes by Alexei Ratmansky to music by Igor Stravinsky and the revival of Léonide Massine's ballet Les Présages to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In 2007 Igor Chapurin won the ELLE Style Awards in the category Fashion Vector. The same year the designer entered the pool of designers of the official timetable for Paris Fashion Week, regularly presenting his seasonal collections.
Today Igor Chapurin creates prêt-a-porter and haute couture collections, lines of accessories, decorative jewellery and bed clothes, and also works with mass-market brands, releasing capsule clothing collections. The designer continues to collaborate with the Bolshoi Theatre, taking part in Russian and international theatre projects including Creation 2010, Reflections and King of the Dance.
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