MODELS.com Top Ten Reasons
Why Natasha V Is The Essence Of Now

10.THE STAR PRESENCE
This is where Marianne Faithfull and her "Broken English" comes in. Natasha is the living embodiment of an aesthetic of raw beauty, splintered elegance and world weary cool last seen on those post-rock n roll girls of the 70's just before rock ceded the spirit of rebellion to punk. It is a little Patti Hansen, but not as wholesomely American. It's a feeling that can go from blue jeans and leather jackets to billowing ball-gowns without missing a beat. It's the ability to balance as Levi-Strauss once said perfectly "the raw and the cooked".

9.THE GRAPHIC BEAUTY
Like all the models who transcend a passing moment of fad-dom, Natasha takes what she has, this look of a careless sophistication and throws herself with such passion into her pictures that what is captured on film is almost sculptural. This model has the shrewdness necessary to evaluate the subtleties of the editorial she is in and factors that into her poses and expression. It results in a model with the blessed ability to turn her body into a graphic sculpted by light and shadow.

8.THE ATHLETIC GRACE
"I really just wanted to have the best career I could", explains Natasha. "I was an athlete in high school and I thought that was going to be my career. But then I was scouted in Belgrade and so I decided to try modeling". A very shrewd fashion editor once noted that at the end of the day, "chic" is about the way a body moves. Agile, strong and beautifully coordinated, Natasha's movement through space is indeed chic. Now you understand the nuances of that killer walk.

7.THE RIGHT CUT
The Natasha who first arrived in Paris, was a long-haired glamazon with the tight toned body and the blonde effervescence that would have fit right in with the sex bomb ideal at the time. She caught the right eyes,vamping in that Chanel handbag campaign, while being transformed into a sexy redhead for Sonia Rykiel.
And then as these things go, the moment changed, fashion went tough and with exquisite timing Natasha cut the flowing sheath of hair into the jagged shoulder length shape she now boasts and that was when the proverbial "everything" started pouring in. She went up to see Calvin Klein (who got it first). Steven Klein was on the case and the rest is campaign history.

6. THE RIGHT BACKERS
Michel Botbol is the Fashion Director for Harper's Bazaar. David Sims is a key photographer for the same magazine. Upon her arrival in New York, Natasha is quickly claimed by that publication as one of their signature girl and shoots three back to back issues. Botbol and Sims then proceed to become the creative team for the Calvin Klein Fall 2001 campaign lensed in London. There was almost no question as to who would clinch for Calvin.