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Issue: Vogue US September 2011
Title: My Generation
Photographer: Mert & Marcus

Natalia’s appearance on Australia’s Next Top Model.

Playing happy families, bat and ball in hand, children alongside playfully running through the waves, Antoine Arnault cut the dashing – and rather doting – father figure while on holiday with top model Natalia Vodianova and her brood while in Ibiza last week.

The 34-year-old son of LVMH owner Bernard , who works as the luxury conglomerate’s communications director and group administrator, has been confirmed as the Russian model’s new lover. Until earlier this year, Antoine had been dating French actress Hélène de Fougerolles.

Vodianova, 29, split from her real estate heir husband Justin Portman, last year. The pair married in 2002 and have three children, two sons aged nine and three, and a daughter aged five.
It is thought Antoine and Natalia got to know one another as Vodianova worked closely with the Louis Vuitton brand, walking in catwalk shows and starring in recent advertising campaigns.

In June, while Antoine’s identity was still a closely-guarded secret, she revealed in an interview with the Evening Standard that she was “defintely” in love with someone new. When asked about her separation from Portman, she described their separation as “really sad,” adding: “Our children are very much aware of it. It’s OK. We’re still in a very sensitive position right now, and trying to do things as amicably as possible, so I wouldn’t want to talk about it at all. I don’t think I will ever want to, because it’s strictly between my husband and me”.

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Best known as the face of countless covers and ad campaigns, this mother of three has also devoted her life to a cause dear to her heart. Vodianova talks to D’NA about giving back to her native Russia and her first trip to the Middle East.

Why did you decide to establish a foundation?
I’ve been very fortunate in my life and career, and I wanted to make a positive contribution to my country. I founded the Naked Heart Foundation five years ago to give underprivileged children in Russia the gift of play. The idea came to me after the Beslan school siege in 2004.

The Naked Heart Foundation believes that playing is a necessity, not a luxury, and that every child should have a secure environment in which to play. To date the foundation has built 54 playgrounds in 38 Russian cities, including facilities in orphanages, rehabilitation centers and children’s hospitals. The need for such facilities in Russia is enormous, where more than 25% of the population has salaries below subsistence level. Furthermore, the authorities don’t provide play facilities in a country where the poorest are typically families with children.

Any future plans for the Naked Heart Foundation?
This year we’re launching a new program called Every Child Deserves to have a Family, providing essential support to families of children with special needs. This is a cause that’s particularly close to my heart. My sister Oksana has cerebral palsy, and I’ve experienced firsthand how little support there is for children with special needs in my country. Without support many of these kids are often abandoned in state institutions where they languish.

How do you generate funds for the foundation?
Our main fundraiser is the annual Love Ball. The first one was held in Moscow in 2008, and raised $5 million. It was the most successful charitable fundraiser in the history of Russian philanthropy.

This year’s fundraiser, The White Fairy Love Ball, was our most spectacular to date. It was held on July 6th at the couturier Valentino Garavani’s Chateau de Wideville in Paris and offered a rare opportunity to visit his archives. The gala dinner brought together some 450 friends of the foundation, including international celebrities from the worlds of fashion, business, film and art.

The highlight of the evening was a fashion show featuring more than 40 custom-designed dresses created by the world’s top designers, which were auctioned that same evening, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the Naked Heart Foundation.

Have you ever visited the Middle East?
My first trip to the Middle East was last November, when the Naked Heart Foundation was invited to be a beneficiary of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Ball. That particular visit left a big impression on me. It was almost like landing on another planet, with Yas Island’s fantastical architecture and its multi-cultural inhabitants. Unfortunately it was a very short trip, and there was so much of the culture and country I still wanted to explore. I hope to visit again someday.”

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Through a series of specially crafted challenges including a bikini strut, a clean-face photoshoot, and an Alex Perry runway show, the axe will fall harder, the culling will be more ruthless, the comments more catty, and the emotions will ride even higher as one hundred girls are whittled down to twenty by the end of the premiere ninety-minute episode.

Now in its seventh season and still the top rating series on the Foxtel platform, the 2011 ASTRA award winning show is back with supermodel host and executive producer Sarah Murdoch, top Australian fashion designer Alex Perry, fan favourite judge and television presenter Charlotte Dawson, and modelling mentor Josh Flinn.

The stakes have never been higher as the girls compete to receive guidance from a guest list of superstar peers including current ‘it’ models Natalia Vodianova, Samantha Harris, Alexandra Agoston and Lara Bingle, whilst being given the opportunity to be styled and photographed by the modelling industry’s elite.

Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 7 begins tonight at 7.30pm EST on FOX8.

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