Daughter of Alla Verber, who helps run Russia’s biggest luxury retailer, Mercury, which brought Dolce, Gucci, and Prada to Russia in the mid-1990s, Katia Verber is well known for being Moscow’s IT girl and her fashion sense. The 24 year-old socialite is called by Marie Claire the “Paris Hilton of Russia” and we can’t help but see the analogy.

In the interview Katia flashed her $7000 luxury titanium Vertu cell phone and complained the $250,000 gold Bentley owned by her family breaks down all the time, which made her arrive late for the scheduled interview.

Futile. Check. Airhead. Check. Bentley. Check. Yep, that’s Paris Hilton! Except Paris has two Bentleys, one pink and one blue! Does it mean it’s war to see which social parasite gets more attention?? I say Paris is winning – she is way cuter!!

[images: Marie Claire]