... divalicious
Uzbek 'princess': Alisher Usmanov's glamorous niece-in-law, Diora Usmanova, is an Uzbek 'princess' who dresses Russia's oligarch kids in costumes costing £5,000, equivalent to the annual pay of 13 people on a minimum wage in her native Uzbekistan
Uzbek 'princess': Alisher Usmanov's glamorous niece-in-law, Diora Usmanova, is an Uzbek 'princess' who dresses Russia's oligarch kids in costumes costing £5,000, equivalent to the annual pay of 13 people on a minimum wage in her native Uzbekistan



'The Uzbek Marie Antoinette and the modern day czar'

    Diora Usmanova, 27, has opened a couture-for-kids outlet in Moscow
    She is the niece of long time Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev
    Her uncle is loyal to human rights abusing President Islam Karimov
    Her store sells pearl-encrusted dresses in homage to Russia's tsarist past


Check out the sumptious life style after the cut ...

... pensive

Backlash: Diora, 27, the niece-in-law of Arsenal tycoon Alisher Usmanov, has been criticised for her couture for kids outlet in Moscow, that sells outfits worth £5,000 for children despite her country's poverty
Backlash: Diora, 27, the niece-in-law of Arsenal tycoon Alisher Usmanov, has been criticised for her couture for kids outlet in Moscow, that sells outfits worth £5,000 for children despite her country's poverty



Meet Arsenal tycoon Alisher Usmanov's glamorous niece-in-law, an Uzbek 'princess' who dresses Russia's oligarch kids in costumes costing £5,000, equivalent to the annual pay of 13 people on a minimum wage in her native Uzbekistan.
Widow and heiress Diora Usmanova, 27, is facing a furious backlash over her ostentatious displays of opulence in one of the world's poorest countries outside Africa.
Her new uber-posh couture-for-kids outlet in Moscow offers pearl-encrusted dresses based on the designs of Russia's tsarist past, but she has been slated for 'hypocrisy' and 'immorality' - and accused of being out of touch with the life of ordinary people as the country's old Romanov rulers.
Couture tot: Diora launched her high-end range for children after her daughter Mariyam complained of not having a fancy dress to wear. Diora posts images of her daughter to her 129,000 followers on Instagram


Couture tot: Diora launched her high-end range for children after her daughter Mariyam complained of not having a fancy dress to wear. Diora posts images of her daughter to her 129,000 followers on Instagram


... pretty in red
 Image-conscious infant: A poster girl for the new-rich in the post-Soviet Union, prominent Instagrammer Diora posts many pictures of her daughter Mariyam and called her design label Bibione after her
 Image-conscious infant: A poster girl for the new-rich in the post-Soviet Union, prominent Instagrammer Diora posts many pictures of her daughter Mariyam and called her design label Bibione after her


... cuddles
Brutal: Diora's uncle, the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan is a long time supporter of brutal President Islam Karimov who has notoriously boiled enemies in oil 
Brutal: Diora's uncle, the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan is a long time supporter of brutal President Islam Karimov who has notoriously boiled enemies in oil 
She is niece of long-time Uzbek prime minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a loyalist to 78 year old autocratic president Islam Karimov, who is notorious for boiling his political foes to death. He also placed his own billionaire daughter Gulnara, 43, under house arrest for alleged corruption.
During his rise to power, Diora's 'brutal' uncle is blamed by human rights groups for beating Eshniyoz Hamzayev, a maths teachers, in 2000 because his students were picking cotton too slowly. He died five days later.
 'I get depressed in Paris after a week of being there... Paris is boring'
He is also held responsible over the 2002 torture and murder in his then fiefdom of Samarkand of the 18 year old grandson of Uzbek dissident and literature professor Jamal Mirsaidov. 
The teenager's mutilated corpse - one arm had been immersed in hot water - was dumped on the academic's doorstep four hours after Mirsaidov met then British ambassador Craig Murray to discuss the widespread use of torture in Uzbekistan.
A poster girl for the new-rich in the post-Soviet Union, prominent Instagrammer Diora with 128,000 followers is being mocked for her latest pronouncements in Tatler's Russian edition, such as her dismissive comments about the French capital, which she decided was not glitzy enough for opening her new Bibione Couture brand, called after her four year old daughter Mariyam's nickname.
'I get depressed in Paris after a week of being there,' she bemoaned. 'Moscow is fun and Paris is boring.'
Out of touch: Her ostentatious Tsarist designs have been slated for being hypocritical and immoral. She makes outspoken comments on Instagram such as: 'I get depressed in Paris after a week of being there. Paris is boring'
Out of touch: Her ostentatious Tsarist designs have been slated for being hypocritical and immoral. She makes outspoken comments on Instagram such as: 'I get depressed in Paris after a week of being there. Paris is boring'


...fairytale world 
Inspiration: Diora has revealed how her daughter inspired her label. She said: 'I had forever dressed her in unassuming Bonpoint - but that day my little Mariyam said: 'I want to leave.' 'I asked her why, and she said: 'Mother, I don't have a beautiful dress'. 'Imagine, she was only two years old then, she had just learned to speak and she already felt uneasy'
Inspiration: Diora has revealed how her daughter inspired her label. She said: 'I had forever dressed her in unassuming Bonpoint - but that day my little Mariyam said: 'I want to leave.' 'I asked her why, and she said: 'Mother, I don't have a beautiful dress'. 'Imagine, she was only two years old then, she had just learned to speak and she already felt uneasy'


Mother and daughter chic: Diora's Instagram is full of images of her daughter Mariyam but she also comments spikily about her travels, writing, 'In two months of living the Swiss life, I found myself dressed in an oversized sweater and realised I was even running out of the house wearing flip flops'
Mother and daughter chic: Diora's Instagram is full of images of her daughter Mariyam but she also comments spikily about her travels, writing, 'In two months of living the Swiss life, I found myself dressed in an oversized sweater and realised I was even running out of the house wearing flip flops'
Smarten up: With Tatler saying 'it is becoming the fashion to show children off', Usmanova insisted, 'I hope to see the time when children will be coming to events dressed in couture dresses, not trainers' Smarten up: With Tatler saying 'it is becoming the fashion to show children off', Usmanova insisted, 'I hope to see the time when children will be coming to events dressed in couture dresses, not trainers'
Photo: Instagram/diora_u
Smarten up: With Tatler saying 'it is becoming the fashion to show children off', Usmanova insisted, 'I hope to see the time when children will be coming to events dressed in couture dresses, not trainers' 
Worse still is Switzerland's tasteless lack of chic, according to the opinionated Usmanova .
She once lived in the town of Zug - the most boring place in the world, according to her, where her husband Babur worked for MetalloInvest, a company owned by his billionaire pro-Kremlin uncle Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4 per cent of Arsenal Football Club in London, a stake he is seeking to increase, which could make him, perhaps, the next owner.In two months of living the Swiss life, I found myself dressed in an oversized sweater and realised I was even running out of the house wearing flip flops
She lamented: 'Nothing happens in Zug.
'And the most awful thing is that you begin to get yourself adjusted to the local community.
'I kept doing my hair for a while, and in two months of living the Swiss life, I found myself dressed in an oversized sweater and realised I was even running out of the house wearing flip flops.'
Her own country, Uzbekistan, ruthlessly crushes any opposition to her uncle's government while human rights groups say rape is used as a method of torture in its jails.
Even her beloved Moscow - where a girl called Imperia was paraded at her boutique's opening dressed in a pearl encrusted chiffon dress attended by 'all Moscow showbiz babies' - must smarten up, she demanded.
With Tatler saying 'it is becoming the fashion to show children off', Usmanova insisted: 'I hope to see the time when children will be coming to events dressed in couture dresses, not trainers.'


...sultry