I just read this and I love Eugenia even more.
""I started with a small agency in Russia and after that I went to
Viva in Paris and then to DNA in New York. At first I wasn't
thinking ...you know..about an international career. I had just
finished school so I thought it would be nice to concentrate on
this for a bit to see how it went. Then things started to move
really quickly. I really loved working in Paris. It's a great city
which I relate to very well. Then by the time I came to New York,
things became really intense."
Was it a lot of stress going from life in Russia to the pressure
of cover shoots and opening Gucci shows , we query?
Euguenia pauses, smiles as she searches for a diplomatic answer
before exhaling slowly...
"Uhmm, no. It's not that I don't get nervous at shoots or shows. It's
just that there are much tougher things to deal with than
fittings, or flying a lot y'know. No matter how tough it gets,
there are much tougher things than this."
What is interesting is the way Euguenia's rise testifies to the
complexity of the global tracking system that is the modeling
industry nowadays. The majority of client/agency activity is
clustered around a handful of major urban capitals (NY, Paris,
Milan, London, LA, Miami) but the speed with which a potential
star gets tracked from a small Russian mother agency to the
hippest shops of NY, Paris and Milan is headspinning.
So when a valuable new player like Euguenia with her unflappable
poise and her killer bod enters the picture, she is caught up in
a machine that is moving even faster than in the days of Linda and
Naomi, or for that matter Kate and Amber.:
imn0tcreativ3: Oh how I love when way she thinks.
""I started with a small agency in Russia and after that I went to
Viva in Paris and then to DNA in New York. At first I wasn't
thinking ...you know..about an international career. I had just
finished school so I thought it would be nice to concentrate on
this for a bit to see how it went. Then things started to move
really quickly. I really loved working in Paris. It's a great city
which I relate to very well. Then by the time I came to New York,
things became really intense."
Was it a lot of stress going from life in Russia to the pressure
of cover shoots and opening Gucci shows , we query?
Euguenia pauses, smiles as she searches for a diplomatic answer
before exhaling slowly...
"Uhmm, no. It's not that I don't get nervous at shoots or shows. It's
just that there are much tougher things to deal with than
fittings, or flying a lot y'know. No matter how tough it gets,
there are much tougher things than this."
What is interesting is the way Euguenia's rise testifies to the
complexity of the global tracking system that is the modeling
industry nowadays. The majority of client/agency activity is
clustered around a handful of major urban capitals (NY, Paris,
Milan, London, LA, Miami) but the speed with which a potential
star gets tracked from a small Russian mother agency to the
hippest shops of NY, Paris and Milan is headspinning.
So when a valuable new player like Euguenia with her unflappable
poise and her killer bod enters the picture, she is caught up in
a machine that is moving even faster than in the days of Linda and
Naomi, or for that matter Kate and Amber.:
Problem is the machine goes so fast now that weak girls crumble as
if they were disposable paper dolls, never having converted their
fifteen minutes of fame. Photographers get frustrated with the
models who can't model with the assurance of the legends and then
the calls go out to the Ambers and the Kates and the Carolyns.
And so what are the long term prospects for this Euguenia?
Again she laughs off the question.
"I take it day by day, job by job. I really enjoy modeling and I
want to do it for a while. I want to do it well. It's great, its an
...adventure "
Out of curiousity, I ask her her sign.
"Virgo" she offers
Virgos. Quiet but ruthlessly ambitious. Very laid back about
their ambition in public but stay up all night plotting their
next move.
Euguenia cracks up at that bit of astrogical analysis and for the
first time her vamp goddess mask slips and the sweet schoolgirl
in her peeks out.
No wonder the Russian girls are running away with modeling's top
prizes right now. In response to that observation Kate Orne offered
"The Russian people have this depth to their culture that you can
see in their faces, in the bone structure. You can see it in
Euguenia's face. There's an aristocracy mixed in with the beauty.
She has such amazing eyes!"
And that means it's time for Kate to take her pictures. Which for
the record are shot without a scrap of make-up, in natural light.
"Listen sweetheart. We must shoot her in black and white. I love
the way the shadows are falling on her face. Look at the line
between her brow and that nose. "
Euguenia is a part of a wave of new models built along a classic
ideal. But it's not just a classic ideal of beauty but also about a
classic work ideal. It's like one shrewd observer on the MDC forums
noted: Modeling is back.
In the words of the tipsters who emailed us "Please. No more
model miseries. No more models who look at the camera like it
insulted them and their mother. No more models who hate flying,
hate modeling, hate walking runways Give us some hair tossing,
jumping, energetic models who like modeling."
And per that pointed prescription is a girl like Euguenia who wants
it and consequently works it, offering the business a rare
opportunity for a full range model, the kind who can rock a
bikini and a showcase a couture ballgown, front a mass market
beauty campaign and yet pose perilously for the edgiest of
avant-chic spreads. She's formidable, this one. And she's only just
begun."
