Tanya Dziahileva

Tatiana "Tanya" Vladimirovna Diagileva (born 4 June 1991 ) is a Belarusian model.

Career

Runway Diagileva was discovered in 2002 at age 11 by Tigran Khachatrian of Noah Models. Khachatrian later sent Diagileva to Saint Petersburg to meet with scouts Jeni Rose and David Cunningham from IMG Models, who signed her to the agency in 2004. Their meeting was depicted in the French documentary film Searching Siberia (2006) by Emma Baus. Diagileva debuted in September 2005, during the Paris Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week, landing an exclusive with Prada in Milan and booking top shows in Paris including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, and Chloé. During the spring 2008 season, she walked in 74 fashion shows opening the Versace show and closing four shows including Phillip Lim, Celine, and Valentino. In September 2008, Diagileva was featured in Women's Wear Daily (WWD) as an up-and-coming model to become a supermodel. In 2007,

Ad campaigns

In spring 2006, Diagileva and Agyness Deyn have featured in a campaign for Hugo by Hugo Boss that proved to be one of the brand's most popular campaigns. Later, Diagileva landed a major solo campaign when she became the face of Yves Saint Laurent, photographed by Jürgen Teller. Following the two successful campaigns, she became the face for the fashion house of Jean-Paul Gaultier. In 2007, Steven Meisel photographed Diagileva for the campaign for Lanvin, and the next year Patrick Demarchelier photographed her for the BCBG Max Azria ad campaign. She has also landed many campaigns for brands such as Lacoste, Michael Kors, Christian Dior, DSquared², Hussein Chalayan, Celine, Nina Ricci, Escada Sport, Mango, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein.