A new story and a new Christmas tale, illustrated – as before – by Princess Natalia. This time, she was proclaimed Empress!
A tribute to the femme-enfant, so wonderfully interpreted by Romy Schneider in Sissi: The Young Empress. A tribute also to history: Guerlain fondly remembers being distinguished as the very official and exclusive “Her Majesty Empress Eugenia’s patented Perfumer” in 1853. Seems like only yesterday!
In the 21st century, inspiration from the past and from all things exotic is the fuel of creation. We continue to like opulence, but in a more balanced way. Splendour is underlined with humour: while jewels bedazzle with their brilliance, the cascading rivers of diamonds may not come from Place Vendôme!
The nobility of precious stones and fabrics is enhanced with the elegance of luminous, delicately scintillating makeup. The ingredients used to achieve it are at the leading edge of sophistication, combining shades of gold with the finest powders and easy-to-apply textures, for the best possible results. Our Empress may thus apply her own makeup, without the help of a maid or… a makeup artist. A dreamy modern beauty who plays with makeup to feel sublime, an evening, a night… for a lifetime.
Source: Temptalia.
Woot, Natalia is back on the runway! She opened and closed the show for Ermanno Scervino in Milan today. Photos are now in the gallery!
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Fashion Shows > 2010 – Spring / Summer Ready-to-wear > Ermanno Scervino
Sorry to post these so late, but here are pictures of events Natalia attended in the last few days.
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Appearances – 2009 – Vogue Private Dinner: London Fashion Week
Appearances – 2009 – Christopher Kane – London Fashion Week – Spring/Summer 2010
Appearances – 2009 – Unique Private Dinner: London Fashion Week
Appearances – 2009 – Mark Fast’s Social Web Parties at Browns Focus
Appearances – 2009 – Mika Album Launch Party
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Covers – 2009 – Evening Standard (September 11, 2009)
Scans – Evening Standard (September 11, 2009)
I am not sure why it feels more surreal to meet the supermodel Natalia Vodianova than any other celebrity. Maybe because I’ve seen her so often in glossy magazines looking impossibly beautiful and poised in a tiny designer confection, always with her husband Justin Portman, the father of her three children. Maybe it’s because they are clearly so happily married. But it’s mostly because of the fairy tale – the 27-year-old who grew up starving in Russia and went on to win the biggest modelling contract in the world as the face of Calvin Klein, the same contract that turned Kate Moss into Kate Moss in the Nineties.
“Russian women are treated in a very Arabic way in our country,” the 27-year-old Calvin Klein model told Mandrake at a party at the Burberry store in Mayfair to celebrate Fashion’s Night Out.
“You are expected to give birth to children, look pretty and shut up. But we are very strong and intelligent people: there are a few of us out there. My whole life is breaking the stereotype of typical Russian women looking for money.”
Natalia, 27, grew up in a poor district of the city then known as Gorky in the Soviet Union and set up her own fruit stall to help her family escape poverty. In 2001, she married Justin Portman, who is an heir to one of Britain’s biggest property fortunes.
“I have passion for what I do,” she told me. “I am confident and determined on shoots, but I am actually really shy in real life. I don’t have confidence when it comes to my looks. I am only confident in front of the camera or when I am talking about my charity. I can get water out of a stone when it comes to things that matter to me.”
Source: Telegraph.
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Appearances – 2009 – Fashion’s Night Out Vogue & Burberry Cocktail Party
Thanks to Faith Akiyama at The Fashion Spot, I’ve added a scan from the Love Spring/Summer issue that came out earlier this year. Enjoy!
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Editorials – 2009 – Love Spring/Summer
I’ve updated the photoshoot album with an old shoot and a newer one. Enjoy!
