Natalia Vodianova

daintyqueen · Jul 30, 2018

She's fit and beautiful but I have to admit not really thinspo for me...I prefer the dainty Vlada or Magda look, but to each their own!

Olgiata · Sep 5, 2018

For Vogue Russia, September 2018 issue

S Moda Spain, September 2018 issue:
cover:

Thoughts?
I've always had a soft spot for her

saturation · Sep 5, 2018

Olgiata said:
For Vogue Russia, September 2018 issue

She looks so youthful! I absolutely adore that portrait of her. Those eyes :luv:

I think she's truly an embodiment of beauty inside and out. According to her instagram she's been doing loads of charity work lately.

I don't know about that dress though. I know she's given birth but still... I don't think it's the most flattering tbh :nervous:

Olgiata · Sep 5, 2018

@saturation
I do agree with you. She represents the true beauty of a woman with a capital W.
Though I also agree, that black dress doesn't quite do it for me.

Dovebssm · Sep 5, 2018

Olgiata said:
For Vogue Russia, September 2018 issue

S Moda Spain, September 2018 issue:
cover:

Thoughts?
I've always had a soft spot for her

I think her face look even better than it looked last year, i don't know what she is doing but it doesn't look like surgeries or something it seems like she is happy and she reflect it.

Plume · Sep 11, 2018

Plume · Oct 3, 2018

elle_w00ds · Nov 18, 2018

Throwback to Natalia's (arguably) best season

angelalamode · Jan 11, 2019

Nostalgic article in the Guardian - "The incredible shrinking model", Sep 2007.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/09/fashion.newyorkfashionweek

In the great anorexia debate, models are talked about but rarely heard. Which is why it was so startling when Natalia Vodianova, one of those great and silent beautiful ones, the Cinderella from Russia, rose to speak at the Council of Fashion Designers of America panel on eating disorders.
At 19, Vodianova gave birth to a son and quickly became skinnier than ever, impressing the fashion world. At five foot nine, she weighed only 106 pounds, her hair was thinning, she was anxious and depressed - and she was a runway star with her first major advertising contract. After a friend confronted her, she sought help and got healthier, adding a few pounds. But when she got up to 112 pounds, her agent sat her down: Designers were complaining she wasn't as thin as she used to be. 'I defended myself, saying it was crazy to consider measurements like 33-27-34 to be normal. I think because I was one of the girls most in demand it helped me to be able to forget the incident quickly. On the other hand, it makes me think that if I had been weak at the time, I can really imagine how it could have helped me endanger myself.'

It's so weird to me that she said a 27 inch waist is small, even unhealthily small. Even 11 years later as a mother of 5, DNA have her listed as a 25.5 waist: can anyone enlighten me on wtf is going on here?
I love her, so thank god her face saved her - but I still have a hard time believing her waist was ever bigger than 27.

Bonus quote for those of us who miss the 2000s attitude:

If Fashion Week is about reinforcing hierarchies, skinniness has always been a way to compete. Being thin means control and, symbolically, that you are rich, that you are young, that you are beautiful, that you are powerful. And yet, when you are watching the industry through glasses that are not as pink as Tanya's, the models themselves, who are skinnier and younger than anyone, can seem like the weakest people here: manual labourers with short working lives. And whatever their eating habits, the girls in the gowns attract, like anorexics, an unstable mix of envy, anxiety, and scorn, a cultural response reserved for women reduced (or maybe elevated) to their bodies.

Quote from then-15 year old Tanya Dziahileva, who elucidated the matter of "anorexic" models better than the CFDA and the author of this actual article:

'The models is models, it's not like normal people, you know? They have to be beautiful, with good skin, and everything perfect.' The girls who got sick, she thinks, 'were just models who were so stupid, to don't eat food, you know? You have to eat good! I eat gorgeous food. I eat sushi, I eat meat, I eat steaks. I eat more than you, I'm sure.

'You know, it's actually really nice, that people take care about the models,' she says softly, when I tell her about the CFDA [minimum BMI] guidelines, which would ban her from the catwalk. 'But I'm 15 years old and I feel like I can do this. And I don't want to stop it! I don't want to stop it for one month, I don't want to stop it for one day. Some girls, you know, they look so young, and so, I don't know - I feel that I need to come to their home and help them go to sleep! But I can't say I feel like I'm 15. I feel like I'm 20. I feel like I'm 30! Because I feel great. My life is gorgeous! Who at 15 years old can see all the world, you know? It's just incredible, it's beautiful, it's amazing, it's - Fashion World!'

saturation · Jan 11, 2019

Forgot about posting these, she's looking nicely toned, peep that xylo :kiss:

elle_w00ds · Feb 15, 2019

I like(d) Natalia as a model but she is increasingly looking like Kylie Minogue.

vanitas · Feb 15, 2019

elle_w00ds said:
I like(d) Natalia as a model but she is increasingly looking like Kylie Minogue.

Kylie is increasingly looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein so someone had to fill the gap...

elle_w00ds · Aug 19, 2019

Spotted: a skinny and only moderately botoxed up 37 yo in the streets of west Chelsea, I thought they were going extinct

lattelover · Sep 25, 2019

I know she’s not really skinny anymore, but I love Natalia too much not to post her recent photos from Vogue China. She looks stunning imo, she’s aged very well and facially she is beautiful.

lilacseamist · Oct 19, 2019

Recent photos from her ig. I love the dress, love how it suits her and the serene vibes these photos give off.

Clara · Dec 1, 2019

photographed by ryan mcginley for porter spring 2015
Found this cute pic, never seen it before!

FailedSupermodel · Apr 3, 2020

I know its been mentioned before that shes not quite in her prime anymore, but I still think she is one of the most beautiful models around. Recent editorial for Tatler UK wearing Dior