Eugenia Volodina life and biography

Eugenia Volodina is a Russian fashion model, born in Kazan.

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London Viva London

Career Highlights:

1998: Loses a beauty pageant in her hometown of Kazan

2000:
- Attends a casting with a Parisian modeling agency, is invited for a job in Paris
- Arrives in Paris to begin her modeling career

2002:
- Signs fragrance contract with Yves Saint Laurent
- Buys a flat for her parents in Kazan
- Mario Testino photographs Volodina alongside Natalia Vodianova for Gucci
- Opens and closes the fall Gucci show in Milan
- Lands on the cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel, which greatly increases her profile
- Opens the spring Jil Sander show in Milan
- Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Terry Richardson
- Walks in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

2003:
- Becomes the face of TSE
- Appears in Bill Blass fall ad campaign
- Steven Meisel photographs Volodina for Dolce & Gabbana
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- Closes the fall Marc Jacobs show in New York
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Peter Lindbergh
- Opens the fall Valentino couture show in Paris
- Opens the spring Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera shows in New York, also closes for Carolina Herrera
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Mario Testino

2004:
- Legendary photographer Richard Avedon photographs Volodina for Hermès
- Steven Meisel photographs Volodina for Escada alongside other top models
- Karl Lagerfeld picks Volodina as the new face of Fendi
- Closes the spring Valentino couture show in Paris
- Opens the fall Fendi and Valentino shows in Milan and Paris, also closes for Valentino
- Models for Bergdorf Goodman catalog
- Face of Salvatore Ferragamo fall ad campaign
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- Opens the fall Chado Ralph Rucci couture show in Paris, also closes for Valentino couture

2005:
- Becomes the face of Oscar de la Renta
- Opens the fall Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier couture shows in Paris
- Appears in Japanese Vogue editorial, photographed by Paolo Roversi
- Vanity Fair features Volodina alongside other Eastern European models as "Slavs of Fashion, The New Beauties"
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- Closes the spring Christian Lacroix show in Paris
- Signs fragrance contract with Valentino's V

2006:
- Featured on DW-TV as part of their “Top Models” series, where she is followed from show to shoot and interviewed about her career
- Becomes the face of Elie Tahari
- Appears in Celine spring ad campaign
- Talks about the glamour and sexiness of Elie Tahari’s clothes in a Fashion TV interview
- Closes the fall Carolina Herrera show in New York
- Opens the fall Elie Saab couture show in Paris
- Walks in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show



2007:
- Featured in a short documentary for Russian television in which she revisits her childhood home and her old school and spends time with her family Video»
- Closes the spring Jean Paul Gaultier couture show in Paris
- Talks to Fashion TV in an interview backstage at Milan fall Fashion Week Video»

2008:
- Appears in Italian Maire Claire editorial
- Appears in Spanish Vogue and French Elle editorials
- Appears in editorials for Italian Vogue and Spanish Vogue

2009:
- Models for Thierry Mugler cosmetics
- Appears in Spanish Vogue editorial, photographed by Tony Kim

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