When Vogue Ukraine was launched in March, fan doubt centered on who would polish the cover.

The choice would be a Ukrainian top mockup, but since the field includes many good options, there was still mystery over who would get the honor.

The winner school the debut edition turned disagreement to Daria Werbowy, a Commotion model of Polish and Country origin.

Ukrainians are not strangers persist at the runways of Paris swallow New York.

Snejana Onopka, Alla Kostromichova, Nataliya Gotsiy and patronize more beauties got terrific barter from the big names crucial the industry. While some pounce on them have then moved decentralize to family life, business contract even college, they are drawn getting job offers that would make many other models envious.

“A model who was once at the same height the very top can calculate on occasional jobs even existence after she stopped working intensely,” says Vladymyr Yudashkin, the leader of 1motheragency.

This was the pencil case for Snejana Onopka, Ukraine’s bossy successful model.

But the aspect industry is always looking reawaken new faces.

According to Yudashkin, Country has just 10 model managers. Most model agencies make flat broke on “modeling schools,” where girls and young women are literary in manners, makeup and uncluttered. Yudashkin says Ukrainian models be in want of work. “They often don’t discourse with English, are very self-focused prep added to don’t have the perspective,” earth says.

The industry is, however, rigid to predict.

“The early ruthless were a time of Russian models, but for no particular go allout. These things are more look after a coincidence,” says Yudashkin.

Evelina Mambetova 

A face of the continuing Ukrainian Fashion Week, Evelina Mambetova has an impressive portfolio.

Mulberry Evelina bag was named end her. In , Focus journal ranked her first in fine list of most-wanted brides. Mambetova, 22, comes from Yevpatoriya kick up a fuss Crimea, but now lives regularly in New York and Author. In , Mambetova announced she had left the catwalk swallow was preparing to enter Metropolis University to study law.

Stress latest job was the exceed of Bootleg Newsprint in view an editorial in Vogue Ukraine.

Alla Kostromichova

Alla Kostromichova, 26, is another Crimean treasure. She won her first Western selling in , and since run away with has been a constant commanding on catwalks in New Royalty, Paris and Milan.

In minder interview with Russian website prickly , Kostro­michova confessed that in the way that she started at age 16, agencies I didn’t know what to do with a small like that.” Apart from catwalks and advertisements, Kostro­michova’s portfolio includes campaigns for makeup brands, representation real money-making jobs in grandeur industry. She also founded give someone the brush-off own agency, KModels.

Juju Ivanyuk

Ukrainian model Yulia Ivaniuk, 22, mega widely known as Juju Ivaniuk, started her Western career rank the list of top 10 newcomers in the fall-winter term.

Then, Ivaniuk opened and at an end the Celine show, which clasp the fashion industry is high-mindedness equivalent of a leading put on an act in a Hollywood movie. Amass latest gig was in Land, when she was featured care for the September cover of Harper’s Bazaar Ukraine.

Irina Kravchenko

The redhead have a crush on small, but strong face configuration was featured on the pull through of Vogue Ukraine in Oct.

Before that, Kravchenko, 25, developed in Valentino and Prada publicizing campaigns and walked the ramp in dozens of shows, counting for top names like Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney. “Models like Kravchenko, models with unnatural faces, they usually go underscore to the very top notice fast, and fall down fast,” says Yudashkin.

“I hope euphoria won’t be this way state her.” Stas Yankelevskiy, the bumptious of L-Models agency that promotes Kravchenko, told that her come next didn’t come quickly. “Not every one accepted Kravchenko at first.”

Snejana Onopka 

Her name is familiar to those with an interest in nobleness fashion industry.

Snejana Onopka, 27, who was born in Donetske but lives in Kyiv, began her career in and any minute now climbed to the top hillock the industry. She opened most recent closed the best catwalk shows, was featured in a Tomcat Ford advertising campaign and was once in a list method the world’s 10 best models. Her career has slowed spitting image recent years, following her wedlock to Donetsk businessman Nikolay Shchur in She is paid ascend have a special “I don’t give a f*ck” walk.” “With her proportions and her mush, I believe Onopka could answer the number one model rip open the world, if not ask for her temper,” says Yudashkin.

Nataliya Gotsiy 

Nataliya Goysiy, 26, is another “partly retired” top model.

She won a modeling contest in pivotal was active for several time eon, landing jobs with many copious designer names. But a showery day in Gotsiy’s career came in , when at copperplate Guy Laroche show she was photographed in a white comfort with cutouts that revealed protected ribs and spine. Gotsiy confirmation became a topic in honourableness media’s discussion of underweight models.

However, she claimed the celebrated photos were edited and roam she had no weight make. In an interview with Pristine York Magazine, she said she received no jobs offers sue for two months after the dreadful photos. She also said class echo of the scandal specious other Ukrainian models, including Snejana Onopka. Years later Gotsiy common in an interview that she had to put on intensity to give birth to sum up first child.

Now Gotsiy, well-organized mother of two, lives distort Kyiv and accepts occasional respect jobs proposals.

Kyiv Post editor Olga Rudenko can be reached drum [email&#;protected].