Tanya Dziahileva (Diagileva)

[cuteshoes215]

is she is mdc's top 50 yet?

 

[miwa]

Yes, she's somewhere around n.20 I think.

 

[miwa]

Tanya closed Biba
ETA: pics (please ignore the ugly clothes)
nymag via SomethingElse

 

[cuteshoes215]

her last name is confusing me..
is it dziahileva, or dyagileva?

 

[miwa]

It's Dyagileva.. Tanya has confirmed that they use Dziahileva to make it easier.

 

[jelsoka]

Matthew Williamson s/s 2008


[firstview.com]

 

[TomFordforGucci]

Can't wait to see her in Milan

 

[Honeysuckle]

Me neither, she is totally going to scoop up the big shows.

 

[cuteshoes215]

is this tanya?
bellazon

http://img120.imagevenue.com/view.php?image=13708_Picture_165_122_536lo.jpg

 

[Jeisa_]

mhm no? not sure but I don't think so
but don't trust me

 

[miwa]

Noo, that's not her nose.

 

[cuteshoes215]

thats what i thought. it was on her bellazon site

 

[cuteshoes215]

news.com.au

Everyone in the fashion world knows who Tanya D is. Over the past two years the doe-eyed Belarusian has walked her way to the top of the runway ladder, working for some of the biggest fashion names in New York, Milan and Paris. There’s just one catch. Three months ago Dziahileva turned 16. This means she has been working at an elite level in the business for at least four seasons. The under-16 ban in London is the latest obstacle for tall, beautiful, ambitious girls like Dziahileva who dream of being models – and don’t understand, if their parents don’t have a problem with it, and if they are chaperoned, why should anybody else? These obstacles have been erected not solely in the wake of the skinny model debate, but also in light of an influx of largely unchaperoned young girls from eastern Europe and South America to the world’s fashion capitals. Not to mention a 1999 BBC exposé which used hidden camera footage to show Milanese model agency and nightclub personnel giving drugs to underage models for sex – which sent shock waves through the industry. Any agencies hoping to secure work for under-16s on the Paris runways at the very least must in theory secure a children’s work permit. That’s what the agents tell me. Curiously, Dziahileva’s London agency is Storm – whose founder Sarah Doukas was one of the British fashion industry experts who sat on the panel of the Model Health Inquiry which just banned under-16s from London Fashion Week. And Doukas is credited with having discovered Kate Moss at JFK Airport in 1988 – when Moss was just 14. Yes it’s a convoluted business. Here’s what Dziahileva had to say yesterday backstage after Ashley Isham.

How old are you now?
I’m 16. I turned 16 in June.

But you’ve been modelling for quite some time haven’t you?
Two years, yeah. These two years were the most important, the most adorable things I ever did in my life. For me, it’s a discovery. For me, it’s something special, you know. I always dreamed to be a model, you know, from six years old. I cannot wait. At 12 I was trying to get a visa to Japan to go to work, because people are really nice…. It’s like kids for the kids you know….

What do you think about the fact that they have now banned girls under the age of 16 in London?
I think it’s not fair. Because I think the girls, 15 and 16 years old, they are just starting to feel fashion. Starting to work, to understand what does this mean, you know? To be in fashion. I think how early you are, like 14, 15 years old, you know you’re more mature after and you understand how to do pictures. You are more professional that way. Because you know from kids, like they go to school… the same thing, they are going from six years old from five years old, to school. So it’s the same thing.

I think the issues are that a/there are some young girls who aren’t being chaperoned and b/that they may be at risk of modelling inappropriately mature, read ‘sexy’, clothes or pictures. Do you think there’s a risk of that?
No I don’t think so. When I was 14, I go to Milan and I was the most happy kid in the whole world.

But you were chaperoned weren’t you? I have seen you with an older woman backstage at the shows - I assumed she may have been your mother.
Yeah yeah yeah. I was with my mum and I was with the agent. And I was like… when you’re young, the people are really nice to you. And even if you’re older, they’re nicer too because they know you for years and years and years.

This under-16 ban would have prevented you from working in London. Does that seem unfair to you?
Yes it’s unfair. I didn’t do last season. I didn’t do a lot of shows. It’s very unfair.

So what, you were already prevented from working in London because of your age – even before this ban?
Yeah. I didn’t do the fashon week in London last season.

Because of the age issue?
Because of age.

But now you have turned 16.
Now I’m 16 and I will do all the fashion shows and I’m going to kick everybody in London (laughs).

I’m assuming that the two years of modelling work has probably helped provide a good investment for your future.
In London it’s not about money. I made money and I have a bank account which we made with my mum. My mum she doesn’t work, I am working. And actually I hold my family, you know.

You mean you are supporting your family?
It’s important for me, you know, because like it’s something which gives… Because you know if it’s not a job I couldn’t do a lot of stuff.

Where is your family?
In Belaruse. I’m staying now in California.

How many family members are you supporting?
No, no, no…almost everybody is working. But I’m helping with…something very interesting or something very special, to buy or whatever. And travelling it’s the best. You can see the world with people. Fourteen years old they (kids) hide out on the street, you know. It’s better to do modelling than this, than everyday there’s some kids who do crazy stuff. Which the models are not doing. Because they’re around people everywhere and everybody sees you, everybody can take care of you. So you’re never going to go on the street, you know and you’re never going to be without people who are going to not take care about you. That way it’s very, very good. So I feel very safe.

 

[Sweet rus]

thank you for the interview, cuteshoes. But I competely disagree with Tanya in most questions. Kids doing crazy stuff? It's called studing and getting knowledge. I have no doubt modelling is a very interesting job but 14 yo children walking on the catwalk? that's what I call crazy. I am sure Tanya will do very well in the next maybe 10 years but not every girl will be that successful....and even if she is...it won't last forever...so what if in 2 years nobody wants you anymore...and what are u able to do? work the camera? no. education is a very important thing. Just my 2 cents. I should leave now, I know I sound like an old granny

 

[Laska]

thank you for the interview, cuteshoes. But I competely disagree with Tanya in most questions. Kids doing crazy stuff? It's called studing and getting knowledge. I have no doubt modelling is a very interesting job but 14 yo children walking on the catwalk? that's what I call crazy. I am sure Tanya will do very well in the next maybe 10 years but not every girl will be that successful....and even if she is...it won't last forever...so what if in 2 years nobody wants you anymore...and what are u able to do? work the camera? no. education is a very important thing. Just my 2 cents. I should leave now, I know I sound like an old granny

I agree with you sweetrus

 

[miwa]

I don't think she was talking about studying, just like kids taking drugs and drinking, and she thinking that models can't do that because people look after them.

 

[Sweet rus]

I don't think she was talking about studying, just like kids taking drugs and drinking, and she thinking that models can't do that because people look after them.

oh really? and such things have never happened iin the fashion world? hmm

 

[miwa]

oh really? and such things have never happened iin the fashion world? hmm

This is what she said:

So you’re never going to go on the street, you know and you’re never going to be without people who are going to not take care about you. That way it’s very, very good. So I feel very safe.

I think she's still very innocent, and she probably still doesn't know the dark side of the modeling industry.

 

[Sweet rus]

I think these are very immature and irresponsible answers

 

[miwa]

Seriously, what did you expect from a 16 year old girl? I hate that interview too, but well, I didn't expect anything better.