Top model Irina Pantayeva: "Dreams come true only for those who work a lot"

The ethnic top model, which has achieved world popularity, has gone through an incredibly difficult path to achieve its goal. Exotic appearance of the girl attracted great attention to her famous designers, leaving an indelible impression.

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Having become a real discovery in the world of high fashion Irina Pantaeva was born in Buryatia in 1967. She told me that her grandfather was a hereditary shaman who could summon spirits. He even before the birth of the girl asked them to send him a beautiful granddaughter. And I must say that the spirits heard his entreaties, and the girl from the very childhood had an attractive appearance. She even helped her grandfather perform rituals, but for all her requests to predict the future, the grandfather remained silent. Only with age Irina realizes that everyone creates his own destiny himself.

1988 became a landmark for the girl who won the beauty contest. Realizing that in her native city, she will not reach any heights, Irina strives to conquer Moscow. There the energetic and bright beauty is noticed by the directors, offering her the roles in almost ten films.

Job in Moscow

Irina Pantayeva, whose biography developed in the Russian capital is very dramatic, gets into the fashion theater of designer-avant-garde I. Molchanova. She remembers that after her work, no one expected her, but she spent the night with strangers. The girl was risking, but she had no other way out - she sent most of her earnings to her parents. Irina was worried about her career, because she had no right to return home with anything.

Lagerfeld's favorite

In 1991, the exotic appearance of Buryatia attracted the organizers of the collection of P. Cardin, and she was invited to work as a model. A year later, Irina goes to Paris to try her hand, but no agency is interested in recruiting a girl with Asian appearance, because on the catwalks and glamorous magazines reigned models of the European type.

Frustrated Irina Pantaeva arranged to work as a dressmaker and a housekeeper. However, the girl does not lose hope and visits in his spare time all the castings. Learning about a new set of models for the famous K. Lagerfeld, who in Paris was considered a god, Pantaeva bypasses all obstacles and gets acquainted with the master personally. Not knowing the French well, she explains with gestures and considers it a real miracle that the designer believed in her, and the next day an unusual model was already shining in his show.

Irina often remembers how she was offended by casting, pointing out her nationality and saying that such a flat face will not attract a single famous fashion designer. She still thanks Lagerfeld for believing in her, considering the professional qualities in a fragile and tall girl. Pantaeva is one of the permanent models of the designer's house of the famous couturier along with K. Schiffer and N. Campbell.

A new round of career in New York

Successful Irina Pantayeva, whose photo appears in all fashion editions, leaves in a few years to work in New York, receiving a higher theatrical education there. She confidently combines the career of a popular fashion model and actress and believes that the 90s were the best in her life. Shooting in advertising campaigns, numerous photo sessions help the beauty with unusual appearance to occupy her niche among the top models.

A natural success

Irina Pantaeva considers her success to be quite natural: "I received refusals, but for me they did not become the reason to give up on their plans. I knock on the door more than once, and several, and wait for them to open. But you have to be ready and know exactly what you really want. "

She tells how in New York she was literally torn apart by designers, offering incredible contracts, and I'm sure that popularity was the result of her painstaking and constant work on herself.

New projects

In the late 90s, at the peak of her star career, Irina Pantayeva left the modeling business, focusing on other projects: "For me, working on the podium was never a priority. Rather, it can be called my business card. I realized that every person on the globe has a purpose, and mine is associated only with ecology. I want to preserve nature and water on Earth. "

In 2012, Pantaeva brings to Ulan-Ude a curious show for the audience, in which she talks about an environmental disaster, hoping that the presentation will make everyone think about the attitude to their land and everything that surrounds the person.

Dreams Come True

48-year-old Irina V. Pantaeva, in addition to environmental activities, is engaged in the creation of jewelry and supports the Buryat drama theater. She really likes the popular phrase in America, saying that a person who has become famous in one minute has been going to this success all his life. She rightly believes that this expression is applicable to her.

Irina Pantaeva explains to everyone that dreams come true only for those who work a lot. Fame and crazy popularity have not changed a woman, she respects national traditions, never forgetting her roots.