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“We have beautiful skin, we have beautiful faces, and the Brazilians are finished!”
—Vanity Fair
Eugenia Volodina's Career Highlights
- 17 SEP, 1984
- Born in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
- 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
- OCT 2000
- Arrives in Paris to begin her modeling career
- 2002
- Signs fragrance contract with Yves Saint Laurent
- 2002
- Buys a flat for her parents in Kazan
- 2002
- Mario Testino photographs Volodina alongside Natalia Vodianova for Gucci
- MAR 2002
- Opens and closes the fall Gucci show in Milan
- APR 2002
- Lands on the cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel, which greatly increases her profile
- SEP 2002
- Opens the spring Jil Sander show in Milan
- NOV 2002
- Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Terry Richardson
- NOV 2002
- Walks in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
- 2003
- Becomes the face of TSE
- 2003
- Appears in Bill Blass fall ad campaign
- 2003
- Steven Meisel photographs Volodina for Dolce & Gabbana
- FEB 2003
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- FEB 2003
- Closes the fall Marc Jacobs show in New York
- MAY 2003
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Peter Lindbergh
- JUL 2003
- Opens the fall Valentino couture show in Paris
- SEP 2003
- Opens the spring Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera shows in New York, also closes for Carolina Herrera
- SEP 2003
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Mario Testino
- 2004
- Legendary photographer Richard Avedon photographs Volodina for Hermès
- 2004
- Steven Meisel photographs Volodina for Escada alongside other top models
- 2004
- Karl Lagerfeld picks Volodina as the new face of Fendi
- JAN 2004
- Closes the spring Valentino couture show in Paris
- FEB 2004
- Opens the fall Fendi and Valentino shows in Milan and Paris, also closes for Valentino
- 2004
- Models for Bergdorf Goodman catalog
- 2004
- Face of Salvatore Ferragamo fall ad campaign
- JUN 2004
- Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- JUL 2004
- Opens the fall Chado Ralph Rucci couture show in Paris, also closes for Valentino couture
- 2005
- Becomes the face of Oscar de la Renta
- JUL 2005
- Opens the fall Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier couture shows in Paris
- SEP 2004
- Appears in Japanese Vogue editorial, photographed by Paolo Roversi
- APR 2005
- Vanity Fair features Volodina alongside other Eastern European models as "Slavs of Fashion, The New Beauties"
- AUG 2005
- Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
- OCT 2005
- Closes the spring Christian Lacroix show in Paris
- 2005
- Signs fragrance contract with Valentino's V Video»
- 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 Video»
- 2006
- Becomes the face of Elie Tahari Video»
- 2006
- Appears in Celine spring ad campaign
- FEB 2006
- Talks about the glamour and sexiness of Elie Tahari’s clothes in a Fashion TV interview Video»
- FEB 2006
- Closes the fall Carolina Herrera show in New York
- JUL 2006
- Opens the fall Elie Saab couture show in Paris
- NOV 2006
- 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»
- JAN 2007
- Closes the spring Jean Paul Gaultier couture show in Paris
- FEB 2007
- Talks to Fashion TV in an interview backstage at Milan fall Fashion Week Video»
- MAR 2008
- Appears in Italian Maire Claire editorial
- APR 2008
- Appears in Spanish Vogue and French Elle editorials
- NOV 2008
- Appears in editorials for Italian Vogue and Spanish Vogue
- 2009
- Models for Thierry Mugler cosmetics
- JUL 2009
- Appears in Spanish Vogue editorial, photographed by Tony Kim