Tatiana "Tanya" Dyagileva (Belarusian: Таццяна (Таня) Дзягілева, Russian: Татьяна (Таня) Дягилева; born 4 June 1991[3]) is a Belarusian model, artist, art director, fashion designer, stylist, and fashion photographer.[4][5]
Tanya Dziahileva | |
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 Dziahileva at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | Tatiana Dziahileva 4 June 1991 |
| Nationality | Belarusian |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1][2] |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Blue |
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| Website | tanyad |
Biography edit
Tanya D. was born in 1991 in Vitebsk, Belarus. Currently, she lives and works in Europe. Tanya or Tatiana finished a BA degree in fashion design at the Istituto Marangoni, a private Italian school for fashion and design. She has also completed the "Fashion Image and Style" year program and "Fashion Business Intensive" program.[citation needed]Also she attended Central Saint Martins, the University of Arts and design in London. [6]
Career edit
Runway edit
Shortly after being discovered at the age of 11 (in 2002), Dziahileva signed with the IMG agency in 2004. She was discovered by Tigran Khachatrian of Noah Models, who sent her to St Petersburg, Russia to meet IMG Model scouts Jeni Rose and David Cunningham.[7] Tanya D debuted in September 2005,[8][9] during the Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week, landing an exclusive with Prada in Milan and booking top shows in Paris including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, and Chloé.[8]
Shortly after, Dziahileva was announced as one of the season's most wanted models.[8] She was selected as one of the top newcomers of the season by models.com.[10] During the spring 2008 season, she walked in 74 fashion shows opening the Versace show and closing four shows including Phillip Lim, Celine, and Valentino. In September 2008, Dziahileva was featured in Women's Wear Daily (WWD) as an up-and-coming model to become a supermodel.[9] Also known as Tanya D, she was named one of the most popular top models by Fashion TV.[8][11] In 2007,[7] she participated in nearly 150 fashion shows across the globe. Since her first major season (spring 2006), Dziahileva has walked the runway in ready-to-wear fashion shows and graced on the haute-couture catwalks for numerous world's top designers, including Chanel, Oscar de la Renta, Dior, Hermès, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Versace, Prada, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein.[1][8]
Her most memorable moments in her runway career was when she opened Versace Spring/Summer 2007 at 15 years old. The next year she would open Versace again during the Spring/Summer 2008 season at 16 years old.
The Return of Tanya Dziahileva edit
In Dziahileva 2021 was featured in an advertising campaign for the collaboration of Christian Lacroix x Desigual. This was her first modeling work in nearly a decade, her last work being runway in 2014. In 2023 she signed to Monster Management in Milan and would return to the catwalk in nearly a decade. Dziahileva made her return and walked the runway for Schiaparelli Haute Couture Fall 2023 and Schiaparelli Spring/Summer 2024 alongside Magdalena Frackowiak.
Her return is still in the upcoming, as she just recently signed to a New York agency, Heroes Model Agency.
Fashion Magazine Covers and Editorials edit
Dziahileva has appeared on the covers of Russian, Japanese, and Latin American Vogue, Russian and Spanish Harper's Bazaar, Korean and Swedish Elle, Japanese and Korean Numéro, Ukrainian L'Officiel, French Revue de Modes, Flair, Deutsch, and Tank. In September 2008, Vogue Russia featured Dziahileva as a top model.[9] She has featured in editorials for V, Numéro, i-D, Deutsch, Tank, Dansk, Harper's Bazaar, and American, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, German, British, Latin American, and Japanese Vogue magazines.[12]
Ad Campaigns edit
In spring 2006, Dziahileva and Agyness Deyn have featured in a campaign for Hugo by Hugo Boss that proved to be one of the brand's most popular campaigns.[8] Later, Dziahileva landed a major solo campaign when she became the face of Yves Saint Laurent, photographed by Jürgen Teller. Following the two successful campaigns, she became the face for the fashion house of Jean-Paul Gaultier.[8] In 2007, Steven Meisel photographed Dziahileva for the campaign for Lanvin, and the next year Patrick Demarchelier photographed her for the BCBG Max Azria ad campaign. She has also landed many campaigns for brands such as Lacoste, Michael Kors, Christian Dior, DSquared², Hussein Chalayan, Celine, Nina Ricci, Escada Sport, Mango, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Tanya Dyagileva". The Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ "Tanya Dyagileva". Ask.fm. Archived from the original on 15 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
- ^ "Tanya Dziahileva – Model Profile". models.com. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
- ^ "Tanya Dyagileva". Instagram. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ "Tanya Dziahileva, la 'top' más divertida del 'backstage'" [Tanya Dziahileva, the most happy top model of the backstage] (in Spanish). ¡Hola!. 4 June 2009.
- ^ "Central Saint Martins". 7 June 2018.
- ^ a b "Tanya Dziahileva la niña prodigio" [Tanya Dziahileva, the prodigy] (in Spanish). Trendencias. 16 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Tanya Dziahileva on FashionTV". FashionTV. Archived from the original on 31 March 2014.
- ^ a b c "Career and biography of Tanya Dziahileva". New York Magazine.
- ^ "Top 10 New Faces FW 06: Tanya D". Models.com. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2014.
- ^ "Modelos versátiles: Tanya Dziahileva, unos ojos que no pasan desapercibidos" [Versatile models: Tanya Dziahileva, eyes that do not go unnoticed] (in Spanish). ¡Hola!.
- ^ "Tanya Dziahileva: Models.com". Models.com.
External links edit
- Tanya Dziahileva Tanya Diagileva on Instagram.
- Tanya Dziahileva at Fashion Model Directory
- style.com - Photos on style.com
- Tanya Dziahileva: Models.com
- Tanya Dziahileva: Supermodels.nl
