AMERICAN IDOL - ALLA KOSTROMICHOVA BY MARK SELIGER

 ALLA KOSTROMICHOVA (TRAFFIC)

 "AMERICAN IDOL"

 VOGUE ESPAÑA OCTOBER 2012

 PHOTOGRAPHER MARK SELIGER

La delgada Snejana Onopka

Snejana Onopka (Ukrainian: Снєжана Онопка, born December 15, 1986) is a Ukrainian model.



Onopka moved to the Ukraine capital, Kyiv, in 2001.



While there, she was spotted by a foreign scout and thus began her career as a model.



In 2005, she appeared in campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana and Prada and caught the eye of Steven Meisel, who photographed her for two covers of Italian Vogue and for whom she is the current "muse."



Onopka has also been on the cover of i-D, Numéro, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Elle Ukraine, Akademia, CM, and the Portuguese, Japanese, and French editions of Vogue.



On the runway, she is commonly seen at shows including Chanel, Gucci, Christian Lacroix, Fendi, Marc Jacobs and Balenciaga.



Although she missed New York's Fall/Winter 2007 fashion shows while shooting the Shiseido Spring/Summer 2007 campaign, she returned to the runway for the Milan shows weeks later, walking for Burberry, Jil Sander, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, and others.



Throughout her career Onopka has appeared in advertising campaigns for Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Calvin Klein, Clé de Peau Beauté, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint-Laurent, Gucci, and Shiseido.



Onopka is signed to the modeling agencies Women Management (New York), Viva Models (Paris) and Why Not Model Agency (Milan).



Onopka is one of the thinnest models walking the runways today, with a Body Mass Index of only 14.6 (anything under 18.5 is considered underweight) and thus faces rejection from some cities' Fashion Week shows, such as Madrid, which has a minimum BMI requirement.



Snejana only walked a couple shows for the Spring 2009 rtw and did not walk any spring couture shows.



Onopka has a residence in Ukraine but cites New York as her part-time home.



She wants to study languages after her modeling career, saying, "I want to study languages.



I want to know many languages.



It's cool when you come to Europe, you can speak French.



When you come to America, you can speak English, and when you come to Japan you can speak Japanese."



She was quoted in Teen Vogue saying this about her family: "My mother collects tear sheets of everything she sees me in.



" And about her father: "My father was in a rock band when I was growing up, so he's used to the spotlight. I like to sing, too."

Birth name	Снєжана Онопка
Date of birth	December 15, 1986 (1986-12-15) (age 22)
Place of birth	Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Hair color	dark blonde
Eye color	blue
Measurements	33-23-34 (US); 84-58-86 (EU)
Weight	45 kg (99 lb)
Dress size	4 (US), 34 (EU), 6 (UK)
Shoe size	9 (US), 41 (EU)
Agency	Vo! Model Agency Why Not Model Agency Women Management Viva Models