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:heart: Katsia Damankova Is Modeling's Next Big Thing Thursday, January 19, 2006 By Raakhee Mirchandan NEW YORK — Katsia Damankova is the hottest girl in the world. So says Ford Models, which last night ended its 39-country model crawl in search of a gorgeous new face for their agency. The judges unanimously voted on Damankova, a 5-foot-10 17-year-old high school senior from Belarus, as the winner of their 25th annual Super Model of the World contest. "She has this very haunting presence, thoughtful eyes and a quiet, calm beauty," says Jade Robertson, a "new faces" agent at Ford models. "People in the street are in conversation with someone else, but they're staring at her. She's definitely a girl you're drawn to." Robertson has been chaperoning the 39 girls, ages 14-21, during their weeklong stay at the Hudson Hotel. But, to her, it was clear from the beginning that Damankova was the girl to watch. "She's different from most girls; she's laid-back and not at all carried away by money or celebrity. To be honest, it's kind of refreshing," Robertson says. "She's at least got to have an idea that she's going to place, if not win. And, I think she's prepared to win." Damankova was discovered in a Belarus café while she was doing her homework over a cup of coffee. When an agent from Select in London approached, she politely took his card but made it clear that she didn't want to be a model. After her mom convinced her to give it a try, Damankova signed with Select and did editorial work in Paris and Milan, and even scored a few well-paying gigs in her hometown. To win this contest, she was picked out by a panel of 20 judges, including Katie Ford, the agency's CEO, and Eileen and Gerry Ford, the company's founders. Damankova's prize includes a $250,000 contract with Ford models and a four-page Nexxus ad that will run in both Vogue and Allure magazines. And, unlike the catfight between America's Next Top Model winner Adrien Curry and Tyra Banks, there is a history of success with this model search. Brazilian bombshell Camila Finn, last year's winner, was booked exclusively for the fall 2005 Calvin Klein shows. And Ukrainian beauty Nataliya Gotsiy, the winner in 2003, has appeared in Vogues around the world. But don't expect to see Damankova's soulful brown eyes staring down at you off of a billboard anytime soon; she'll be doing the graduation walk before the catwalk. After she gets her high school diploma, Damankova will relocate to New York City, begin working on her portfolio and be shown to clients in time for the spring 2007 fashion shows. "She's so beautiful that people turn around to see her. In the hotel, walking down the street, people can't stop staring at her," Ford says. "She has every quality it takes to be a model; she photographs incredibly, has a great body and she wants to be a model." Ford says Damankova reminds her of Renee Simonsen, the Danish model who won the contest in 1982. "She has full lips, her skin is honey-toned and when she sits without makeup she is still incredible-looking," Ford says. The agency was looking for a model who wasn't only easy on the eyes, Ford says, but also easy to work with. "We never look for a contestant for a particular hair color, but we look for how they photograph, what makes them pop in pictures and the ability to project emotion through their eyes," she says. "A good model puts on clothes and makes them come alive, [and is] someone who can think about what they're wearing and portray it."

US Vogue June 2008 : Sarah Jessica Parker by Annie Leibovitz credit: hufnagel at tfs

Vogue Germany June 2008 credit: helligirl at tfs

nice pics of her... credit: Fabulyss at tfs Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann: a model daughter Telegraph Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/04/2008 A top model as well as a student of biomedicine, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann is a classy mix of brains and beauty. But then, with Isabella Rossellini for a mother and Ingrid Bergman for a grandmother, could she ever have been anything else? By Daisy Garnett She may well be perfect. Elettra - even her name is super-hero fabulous - Rossellini Wiedemann is a 24-year-old model and student, and living proof that the progeny of famous human thoroughbreds don't necessarily buckle under the weight of expectation and example. Let's start with the roll-call: her mother is Isabella Rossellini, which makes Ingrid Bergman her grandmother and Roberto Rossellini her grandfather. Her paternal grandparents, meanwhile, Americans of German descent, live in Texas. They are in their eighties, 'but still climb mountains and travel the world and take their grandkids to Japan and stuff'. Their son, Jon Wiedemann, Elettra's father, is a Harvard-educated executive at Microsoft who was a model (he and Rossellini met on a Calvin Klein shoot) and lives in Seattle with his second wife and children - in their spare time they run marathons and compete in Iron Man challenges. And here is Elettra. When I meet her she has just finished shooting for French Vogue, and has landed a beauty contract with Lanc�me as the 'face' of Hydra Zen moisturiser and Color Ideal foundation. So, yes, she is beautiful and successful and stylish (she wears black jeans, a tailored jacket and a large mustard scarf perfectly knotted around her neck), and, yes, she is already rich in her own right. She grew up in New York, but is about to move to London to start a master's degree in biomedicine, which means her brain isn't too shabby, either. What is biomedicine? 'It's a lot of things,' says Wiedemann, 'but, basically, institutional reform in light of climate change. The programme focuses on human health and there will be classes on ethical reform; things of that nature.' Oh. OK. Will she model while studying? 'I will,' she says. 'The course is two years long and, after all, I modelled throughout college and managed to graduate.' Wiedemann did her BA in international relations at the New School, a university in New York. Her first modelling job was with Bruce Weber for the American label Abercrombie & Fitch. She got the Lanc�me job, she explains, because the president of the company, Odile Roujol, saw a photograph of her and thought her looks - fair skin, brown hair, almond-shaped eyes - would appeal to the Asian market in particular. Only then, so the story goes, did Roujol discover whom the face belonged to - what Wiedemann calls 'the whole mum connection'. Isabella Rossellini was the face of Lanc�me for 14 years. That, Wiedemann says, 'made them go back and forth. But eventually we signed and here I am.' 'It's not easy,' she says about combining modelling with a degree. 'But it's doable. You're pretty much busy all the time, but that's OK. I like being busy, and I enjoy modelling hugely as long as I'm also doing something else. Because there are weeks when I'm working every day from nine to midnight ten days in a row, but then a month might go by when nobody calls, and if the only thing you have to do is workout then you go a bit crazy.' Does she workout a lot? She does. 'I'm addicted to the gym, actually,' she explains, matter-of-factly. 'Or rather to exercise. I try not to go every day because I don't think it's so good for you to do that, but I do interval-training with a trainer five or six times a week. It sucks, but it's great for your endurance, and it transforms your body.' Is she under pressure to do that? Her body, as you might expect, is wonderfully long, rangy and narrow: very thin of course, but not emaciated as you sometimes see on the catwalks. And, unlike many of her peers, Wiedemann is actually more beautiful in the flesh than she is in photographs. Is she ever asked to lose weight? Certainly at lunch, though declaring she is hungry, she eats like a bird: a tiny portion of seabass, hot water with lemon to drink, and an espresso. She turns away the tray of petits fours, saying, 'I'd love to but I can't. There is always pressure to be thinner,' she says with a certain weariness. 'No one says anything to me actively, but if I lost ten pounds everyone would be, "Oh, you look fabulous." But at some point you have to use your brain and say this is my limit. I exercise, I'm healthy, I don't drink, I don't smoke.' She doesn't drink? 'I haven't drunk this year. I got sick at the end of last year and I can't quite shake it off so I just decided to let my body heal. That's why I'm eating vegan as much as possible, too. But I don't miss drinking. I exercise so much and if you've been eating badly or drinking you feel it. I hate feeling weak or sick or anything.' See what I mean about being perfect? Wiedemann also speaks fluent French (she attended a French high school in New York) and Italian (she went to Milan five years ago for three weeks' modelling work and ended up staying two years), and has a reputation as a conscientious 'green' model, by asking Lanc�me to offset the carbon footprint created by the air travel she does for them. 'Our entire system of living is built on an un-environmentally friendly model,' she says. 'I'm studying it so I can understand more how I can help big companies change, or help governments change, or people change their lifestyle.' I ask Wiedemann if she's a perfectionist. 'Yeah,' she says. 'A little bit. I am tough with myself. But I never drive myself nuts. I can fly to the Bahamas and chill out for a week. But in order to play hard you have to work hard. I'm young, but I won't be forever and I want to get the most out of my energy now. One day, hopefully, I'll have a family and kids, and I won't have time to do all this fun stuff, so let's do it and let's do it well.' There is no doubting Wiedemann's clear thinking and high standards. She also has firm boundaries. If she one day hopes to start a family, is she now in a relationship? 'I don't like to talk about that stuff,' she says. 'Sorry. Open that door and it never closes. You know?' What about her own childhood? 'I had a great childhood,' she says blankly. She refuses to acknowledge the interest that being the daughter of Isabella Rossellini, herself the product of that controversial romance between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, arouses. 'Yeah, but she's also my mum. She is who she is.' Did she ever feel overshadowed by her mother? 'I think if you say I'm in her shadow it means I'm competitive with her, and I'm not really.' No, I say, I mean more that you might have grown up feeling intimidated or shy or resentful or any number of things that offspring of successful and beautiful parents often feel. Wiedemann, I have read, had to wear a back brace from 12 to 17 because she suffered from scoliosis. Wasn't that hard in the face of such perfection? 'Maybe initially people compared us, or tried to place all this weight on meeting me because of her,' she says. 'But I think they quickly abandoned it because I'm so different. I'm American, she's Italian, we've got completely different personalities, and we don't look alike at all.' And about wearing the brace 23 hours a day for five years she just says: 'It wasn't great, but I went to the United Nations High School, so everyone was different in their own way.' She and Rossellini Snr don't look that different though. And their professional lives aren't a million miles apart either. Rossellini was quoted as saying that she couldn't have been more pleased about the Lanc�me contract than if Wiedemann had told her she was getting married or pregnant. Really? 'My mum's a businesswoman,' she replies, shrugging her shoulders. 'She knew it meant I would get to travel and experience new things, and that I'd be financially independent. So, yes, she was happy that I would have the opportunities that I've had, as am I.' She pauses. She is so businesslike, the beautiful Elettra Wiedemann, so smart, so articulate, so exacting, so professional. And then, just as it all seems too good to be true, she softens for a moment and acknowledges that not everything is within one's own control. 'It's like winning the lottery,' she says and smiles. Skirt and T-shirt by Dolce & Gabbana. Jacket by KL Karl Lagerfeld. Shoes by Christian Louboutin. Make-up by Lanc�me. Styling by Hew Hood

.. and she's looking fabulous source: livejournal, ohnotheydidnt

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