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From The Sunday Times September 9, 2007 Moving on ...the couple, whose third child is due this month, have been decorating their new family home in West Sussex: a 14th-century water mill with a library and a guest cottage. "Justin and I come from different backgrounds, but we like each other's taste," says Vodianova, 25, of her aristocratic spouse (he's Viscount Portman). She, by contrast, sold vegetables at a street stall as a teenager. She says that she wants the mill's interior decorated in bold colours. "My home town of Nizhny Novgorod is not a bright part of Russia. It is that lack of colour that inspires me now".

some random selection (mostly old but they have not made their appearance recently). I hope that, though retired, she still will be a frequent guest on the ads and catwalks... I will miss her, anyway.

Natalia looks so good in red.

Natalia retired. she still may walk sometimes (see below). January 28th, 2008 - Posted in Models On the catwalk Valentino Garavani wasn’t the only fashion name retiring from live on the catwalk last week. Page Six revealed that Russian supermodel, Natalia Vodianova, also retired from the runway at the grand old age of 25, after playing a staring role at the Valentino spring haute couture show. “She may do another show in the future,” said a source, “but only for $500,000 or this large pink diamond she’s had her eye on.” Ah Russians and diamonds, I wonder if her rich husband could just pick it up her… As a celebration of their retirements, the former Calvin Klein model is reportedly taking taking Valentino to Moscow for a week and then to Brazil for Carnivale. I wonder who is footing the bill.

Was that when she first started, when she was 19?

from the recent events:

oldie but goodie. check out how much plumper she used to be! all 2001 runway.

can someone post the videos from the valentino's farawell party?

Wow Sweet Rus - thank you. these are so artistic! I love her with her long hair, I must say (and even at Valentino looks like she was wearing a shynion (spelling?)

thanks for all the pictures everyone! they are great! :drool:

From BBC: Russian Winter in London http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/entertain...000/7181822.stm По мнению матери троих детей Водяновой, "Русская зима" может считаться и модным, и полезным событием для тех русскоязычных жителей Лондона, кто стал забывать о своих корнях. "Мы сейчас, особенно в России, так хотим чего-то нового, хотим открыться миру, и все нам надоело - и матрешки, и икра нам уже не нравятся. Но я, например, больше не живу в России, и все равно хочу, чтобы мои дети знали матрешки, частушки и Колобка. Когда-то родители говорили про то, как важны традиции. Я тогда не слушала, но сейчас понимаю, что это так", - сказала Водянова. По ее мнению, даже для не особенно интересующихся русской культурой англичан фестиваль может быть интересен - "просто потому, что это весело, а все люди в мире любят веселиться". "То, как это сделано, по определению несерьезно - это просто веселье, снегопады, матрешки", - считает модель.

Credits to Cosmocat (TFS): How I get dressed Natalia Vodianova, one of the world's richest models on fame, fashion and a life in poverty in Russia Sunday January 13, 2008 Observer Today, I am really lucky with clothes. I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15. We lived in Gorky [now Nizhny Novgorod] in Russia, but there was this woman who used to go to Poland to get fancy clothes that were considered very exciting. Even though I worked on a market stall to support my sisters, I begged my mother to see how we could work it out so that I could have that beautiful coat. When I got it, I felt like a princess. Even grannies would look at me and smile. Then one day, these two naughty boys started shouting, 'Oh what a pretty girl', and throwing dirt at me. Although I ran away, I was so happy; they were the kind of boys I would normally hang out with, but because I was wearing fancy clothes, they considered me a rich girl. I really liked that idea. I know some people would have wanted to kill themselves but I thought my childhood was happy. My mother worked nearly 24 hours a day and I realise things were difficult but I managed to find a lot of light there. I had this weird knowledge that, one day, things would be good. My father left before I was two. It never occurred to me that he would come back and rescue me. I knew he was as poor as my mother, that he had nothing to rescue me with. I didn't even think about him when I was growing up; I didn't care about him at all. My stepfathers were not very nice men. As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact. Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation. With my long blonde hair and that coat, I started to get a lot of attention from much older men, although the boys from school really didn't like me. My husband [Justin Portman, 38, English aristocrat and landowner] is 13 years older than me and I guess I like being with someone who has experience and knowledge about the world. We met at a dinner after I had moved to Paris and we had a fight in the first two hours. Justin was sitting with the girlfriend of mine who had invited me and it felt as if there was something going on between them. Yet then he got up and walked around and sat next to me, and I was so offended, thinking, 'What does this man think Russian girls are?' I snapped at him and he snapped back and I don't remember everything because it was so fast, but somehow I was devastated. Then, I played like I didn't care for him, because I didn't want to be a victim of my feelings. We come from such different backgrounds and I'm a very proud girl. I have been very poor and I was afraid he would take advantage of that and I didn't want to be hurt by someone who wanted to be with me just for fun. I knew, right then, I wanted us to be serious. Since then, my life has been one of immeasurable goodness - almost too good to be true. I was working until I was seven months pregnant with Lucas [now five]. I shot the Marc Jacobs campaign with my belly out and everyone loved it and then, because I was so young, I just pinged back and actually I think my figure was better after I gave birth. I got a waist and hips and breasts and I felt very rejuvenated by this new life. Lucas was born in England but, in two-and-a-half weeks, we were on the plane to New York. Then my life went in a direction I didn't expect. I landed the Calvin Klein and L'Oréal contracts and life was so manic I couldn't think of another child. So we waited a few years before having Neva, who's now nearly two. When Viktor was born in September, I knew how to handle myself, and walked down the catwalk at the Louis Vuitton show weeks later. With my own children, you could say I am rather strict. Lucas is a very English boy but he understands that Russian is Mummy's language and he knows too that no is no and yes is yes and there is no other way and it works very well. The Naked Heart Foundation [Vodianova's charity] started because when Lucas was younger we used to live next to a playground. It is so lovely to take your child to play and see them get exhausted, in a happy way, and then go to sleep. Yet when I took Lucas back to Russia where my friends and cousins have children, there is not one place to go. So I started to dream of playgrounds. Originally, I wanted indoor playgrounds because the winter in Russia is so cold, but it took me a while to understand the bureaucracy. I need experience and good people around, so indoor playgrounds are still a dream. But I will get there! I have started with supervised, fenced outdoor playgrounds where everyone has to go through a security entrance and adults without children are not allowed. When I became famous [Vodianova was rated by Forbes last year as the seventh highest-earning model] my father found me, of course, and I got rather angry about what he might want. Then I thought, 'I'm helping a lot of people who aren't my blood, so why wouldn't I help my father?' So I saw him and he told me, 'We were always talking about you, but I was embarrassed I couldn't even get you anything. I couldn't see my child without a little present, and if I did I would be taking away from my second family.' I understand because I'm not an unusual story in Russia. Meeting him has been great. I really like him. I look like him and now I have seen 'my second half', the things that were missing make sense. Before, I was always wondering where I got some of me from.

olde

Wow, thank you Sweetandlow :wub:!

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not sure if these are reposts - at least not very recent

fashionmistake1234, do you think you could find more pics from this event - i love the dress:

I also wanted to thank fashionmistake1234 for posting so many great (and not seen before) pictures!!! :drool:

here we go, Vogue US January 2008 "Peerless" by Steven Meisel Credit for scanning to Faith Akiyama

can someone please post the new Vogue editorial with NV?

i very much like this get-up by her, like the colors of the chanel jacket...

Chloe Hosts Solomon R. Guggenheim Young Collectors Council Artist's Ball NEW YORK - DECEMBER 13. sorry for some watermarks.