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styleIn the decade since she started her modeling career, Vlada Roslyakova has experienced nearly everything a model can—shoots with Meisel, shows for Galliano, international magazine covers—but nothing could have prepared her for working with the legendary Yoko Ono. Re-enacting Ono’s classic Cut Piece for W magazine, Roslyakova bared her body and soul for the artist to create a stunning editorial just in time for Ono’s MoMA retrospective. Here, Roslyakova reflects on the experience and her relationship to the art world as a whole. How did you get involved in this story with Yoko Ono?
My agent called me one morning at the end of February, and he said, “There is a project with Yoko Ono.” I was like, “Did I hear it right? Is it that Yoko Ono? Maybe there is another one.” I didn’t believe it.
What was the experience like on the day of the shoot?
It was a huge pleasure to not only meet her, but to also be pictured with her. I’m really thankful to everyone who was involved in that. I arrived in the morning to the studio. She wasn’t there, so we did some tests. They were trying to cut my clothes so the photographer would know how to shoot—from which angle is the best. We prepared for it, and got hair and makeup ready, everything. And she was supposed to come at 2, and she did come exactly at 2. She was so respectful, and that’s what gives her a real star quality, I think.
I was touched by the way she met me. She was so open, and she hugged me. I didn’t expect that she would be so warm. She was super-nice and she knew what she wanted, she knew exactly what to do. But I also felt a little fear from her with those huge scissors next to my body. She didn’t want to hurt me. Because she’d done that cut piece and she had been in my place, she still remembered those feelings from when she was onstage and when people came to her with the scissors. She said that it feels more scary to be the one with [the scissors] because she was scared to harm me.
You’ve been modeling for years—how does this experience rate in regard to all the other things you’ve done?
That was the [best] experience of my life, I have to say. That was, so far, the most valuable, the biggest thing that has happened to me. When she was first doing that piece, I wasn’t even born yet, so to be a part of this is something I’m really grateful for.
Were you always interested in art?
I do enjoy art—I go to the exhibitions, but I wouldn’t call myself, like, an expert or someone who was always into it. I’m learning now. Each time I go to the gallery or some installations, I get inspired, and it makes me feel like I want to come back home and take my things and start to play with it and do something.