"Her beauty is not from this earth"

Each girl wants to be a princess or a Hollywood princess or a princess of pop music or the bride of beautiful prince. A dreamy person may be dreaming for hours. But later they usually come back to real life. Most people do, but some of them dont come back and their real life becomes a fantasy.A young model girl shows chic clothes gracefully which cost more than 10.000$. Looking at her it is not easy to realise that this magnificence is only entourage for that successful girl who only does her job, this job wich seemed to be a dream...

...Eugenia Volodina...ideal features...thoughtful serious look of blue eyes... All the things happened to her and around her on summer 2004 in Paris seem to be a dream. But heroine of that dream is an earthy beauty.Paris. Monday. Morning. Audience, clients and editors of fashion magazines have come here to see the Dior Haute Couture fashion show. They try to be quiet. But behind the scenes the things differ. Models who are laced up try not to fall down and not to be suffocated. Some models have masks a-la Egypt on their faces....So Volodina appears... Her dress made of silk is wonderful. Make up: red and pink triangles near eyes and green eyebrows made of crorodile leather... Only she, a well-known and successful model doesnt have mask, becouse "only new models have to put them on" - she said 2 days after the show... But not to show such a face is the last thing to do.

...So Volodina appears... Her dress made of silk is wonderful. Make up: red and pink triangles near eyes and green eyebrows made of crorodile leather... Only she, a well-known and successful model doesnt have mask, becouse "only new models have to put them on" - she said 2 days agter the show... But not to show such a face is the last thing to do.She has just arrived from Ralph Rucci show especially for Russian Vogue. She almost has no free time, she has so much work this week. It is difficult to realise that Eugenia is that girl who shows those unbelivable dreasses. She wears black jeans, black sweater and trainers as a simple 20y.-old girl. But they are from known designers and she can afford them. Her favourite brands are Dolce&Gabbana and Gucci because "they are smart, elegant and sexy".These things looks like Zhenya (Volodina) whose look adorns Dolce&Gabbana adv.

She looks like Italian star. Her first foto-survey, devoted to Italy, took place in Milan and one of the article was devoted to women with vividly expressed noses. Eugenia is one of them. She looks through a new edition of work with pleasure. She found that "Tatiana Sorocco's "Telegrams" are very amusing. But in the morning I saw her reading George Oruell's book "1984". Books are her passion, she reads everything in Russian and in English. "I like books very much. Read one till the end and begin to read the next one. There is nothing to do on the time between shows. "The survey for Vogue is inspired by "flower" ideas. So from a black doll, very beautiful doll, she becomes a colourful butterfly. "...your hair" - said a smiling barber showing artificial hair. Then a make-up specialist glues artificial lashes on Eugenia's natural. He asks what does "poka-poka" mean? She explain that it is "bye-bye" in Russian.

Eugenia was born in Tatarstan, she began model business at 14. But she bacame famous in 2002, when Steven Meisel noticed her and made the first foto for the Vogue Italy cover. The first adv. was also made in 2002 - for Gucci. She was 18. Now she lives in Paris and doesnt want to leave it for New-York as many models do. Is she a Russian or an international model? She answers that she is a Russian model and she is proud of that. "When I finish my model career I'll come back home but now I don't know exactly what I am going to do".Bronze sunburn suits her very much. She has got brown during her rest with her boyfriend. Boyfriend? Her eyes sparkle..."He is from Russia. Our men are the best! I miss him and my large family: 2sisters and a brother. Once a month a go home to see them. There I can relax, I wake up at 6 o clock in the morning and come home at 3. For my relatives I am not a chic model. I am who I am and I dont talk with them about my business." So I realise that her business is a very hard and exausting job. Zhenya dreams:" When I earn milliard dollars, I will buy a house on some exotic island."

After Dior show she becomes almost a 2-m.high likeness of Donatella Versace in Ritz hotel. The next day on Chanel she looks in a different way. Now she is a graceful lady. So there is less Italian and more Spanish in her. She marches past and the music ... "You are so beautiful". Eugenia is favoured to close Valentino show. She wears a long black party dress. Velentino (about Volodina): "her beauty is exceptional, ideal proportions. beautiful face, unusual eyes. Charm...everything in Eugenia is of the higherst quality."On Ungaro she shows a long red dress and she looks like a Hollywood star. Ungaro:"I am fascinated and entranced since I saw her for the first time. Her beauty is fragile, not from this earth, magic... mystarious. Sometimes I saw in Eugenia Grace Kelly, sometimes Marlen Ditrih or Odrey Hepbern.Most of all she is quiet inside..."

Are not you tired of making the same things every day? I think:no. She really likes what she does. She likes fashion shows, her favourite is Victiria's Secret's. She said about it with enthusiasm: "I marchesed past on this show 2 times. Everything was so beautiful. We are all angels with wings. And you simply forget that you shows underwear. You are an angel."Suddenly she stops...and thinks about something. She is in her fantasy dreaming about angels and princess...somewhere...very far...

Vogue Russia April 2004