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Category Archive: Fashion

Rimma Agafoshina

Rimma Agafoshina

Rimma Agafoshina


Rimma Agafoshina is one of the most popular advertising models in Russia. In addition, she is a PR manager of model management agency Modus VivendiS (Moscow). Her responsibilities include management of advertising and marketing activities. The Agency was founded in 1992 and today it is the leading modeling Agency of the country.
Also, the beautiful girl is known as TV host Leonid Yakubovich’s assistant in TV quiz show Pole Chudes (The Field of Wonders).
Pretty girl was born on May 19, 1981 in Moscow. As a schoolgirl Rimma was good at painting. In fact, both of her parents painted pretty well, but only her grandfather became an artist. At the age of 14 Rimma came to Slava Zaitsev, known Russian fashion designer, to participate in a beauty contest. It became clear the girl could be very successful in modeling. Agafoshina worked with such modeling agencies as Point and Red Stars.
She is known for shootings in advertising of large Russian and international brands, including Coca-Cola, Axe Effect, Samsung, Beeline, Max Factor, Mary Kay, L’Oreal.
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Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich


Milla Jovovich is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films. Music channel VH1 has referred to her as the Reigning Queen of Kick Butt.
Pretty girl was born on December 17, 1975 in Kiev, Soviet Union. Her mother Galina Loginova is a Russian stage actress. The girl was raised in the Russian Orthodox religion. Jovovich speaks Russian and English fluently, and a little French.
By the way, Milla began modeling when Gene Lemuel convinced Herb Ritts to shoot her for the cover of Lei magazine. Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon’s Most Unforgettable Women in the World advertisements.
In 1988, she debuted in the film The Night Train to Kathmandu, and later that year, she appeared in the feature film Two Moon Junction.
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Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman is a beautiful Russian spy. She was living in New York, United States when she was arrested on suspicion of working for the Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation’s external intelligence agency. On 8 July 2010 she was deported back to Russia, as part of a prisoner swap.
Anna Kushchyenko (her real name) was born on February 23, 1982 in Volgograd. Her father, Vasily Kushchenko was a diplomat, who served in Papua – New Guinea, Kenya and Zimbabwe. However, according to Anna he was a senior KGB officer. Her mother worked as a Math teacher. Anna has a younger sister Ekaterina.
After school Anna Kushchenko entered the Russian Peoples’ Friendship University.
In the summer of 2001 during a tourist trip to the UK Anna met Alex Chapman, her future husband. Later, in March 2002, Alex came to Moscow, where they got married.
According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, Anna married A. Chapman to obtain a British passport.
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Svetlana Koroleva, Miss Europe 2002

Svetlana Koroleva, Miss Europe 2002

Svetlana Koroleva, Miss Europe 2002


Svetlana Koroleva is a Russian model and TV presenter. By the way, she is a winner of the All-Russian national beauty pageant Miss Russia 2002 and the international beauty pageant Miss Europe 2002.
Beautiful girl was born in 1983 in Petrozavodsk.
In June 2002 Koroleva was crowned Miss Russia 2002, while competing with 69 other contestants from various regions of Russia. During the pageant, she represented her home city of Petrozavodsk. In the same year she represented Russia at Miss Europe 2002 pageant and won. Also, she was supposed to go to the Miss Universe 2003 pageant, but her Miss Europe title didn’t allow her to do it.
After the victory she did not return to Karelia. Pretty girl graduated from the Mining Institute, walked on the podiums of Europe and the Arab countries, worked as a TV presenter on the TVC channel. In addition, she starred in the film with Anna Snatkina, got married, founded a business in the fashion industry and became the mother of three children.
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Tatyana Tereshina

Tatyana Tereshina

Tatyana Tereshina


Tatyana Tereshina (better known by her stage name Tanya Tereshina) is a Russian singer and model, ex-singer of the group Hi-Fi.
Pretty girl was born on May 3, 1979 in Budapest, Hungary into a family of Soviet military man. Only in 1992 the family finally settled in Smolensk, where she graduated from school. In addition to compulsory school, she attended music, art and ballet classes. She was a soloist in the children’s ensemble. In 1996 the girl entered the Art Institute and after graduation she decided to move to Moscow.
Almost immediately after moving to Moscow, Tatyana was admitted to the modeling agency Modus Vivendis. She was the flagship model, traveled a lot for shows in Europe. Then she worked for such modeling agencies as Fashion and Point.
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Victoria Bonya

Victoria Bonya

Victoria Bonya

Victoria Bonya is a Russian TV presenter, actress and model.
Pretty girl was born on November 27, 1979 in Krasnokamensk, Chita Region. At the age of 16 she came to Moscow. Her career began in the Lotto Bingo. Also she managed to work as a waitress, secretary of the company for the production of plastic windows.
In 2001 the beautiful girl represented Russia at the beauty pageant Miss Earth. A year later, in 2002, she went to the United States.
On May 9, 2006 Bonya became a member of the reality show Dom-2 and spent about a year there. The girl had a relationship with Stepan Menshikov and Anton Potapovich. By the way, she has become one of the most prominent members of the show.
Outstanding Victoria entered the list of 50 Most Beautiful People of Moscow in May 2007.
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Tatiana Sorokko

Tatiana Sorokko

Tatiana Sorokko

Tatiana Sorokko is a Russian-born American model and fashion journalist.
Beautiful girl was born on December 26, 1971 in Sarov. She graduated from school and moved to Moscow. By the way, she worked as a model in the fashion center Lux and soon was noticed by French modeling agent Marilyn Gauthier. The owner of Marilyn Model Agency offered the girl to work in Paris.
She walked for the world’s most prominent designers and fashion houses, appeared on the covers of leading fashion magazines. To tell the truth, she became the first Russian model of the post-Soviet period to gain international recognition.
Awesome girl has modeled for Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Jean Paul Gaultier, Yohji Yamamoto, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Prada, Calvin Klein, Vivienne Westwood, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan, among other leading designers and brands. Also she was frequently photographed for European and American magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, W, Elle, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.
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