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"In the USSR every labor is honorable!" - This is familiar to every Soviet person, the slogan was merely declaratory, for the country of victorious socialism, as in any society, there was a hierarchy of occupations. At the top, "arranged" diplomats, academics, military, and, of course, party - Komsomol bosses.


The working class is declared "hegemony" of all past and future revolutions, alas, is not such - existed in the USSR even cynical abbreviation "PTU" - help me get stupid . The most common method was considered a professional self-study at a technical college with subsequent distribution to the company profile. In the late 1970s. and joked: "Throw a rock - will enter into an engineer." Profession tacitly shared on major and minor, on the prestigious and prestigious.

Against this background, profession fashion models look like something completely alien, and (as many believe!) Even a little decent. Cover girl of fashion magazine to belong to the fashion world, the so-called "good life" does not fit the image of the ideal Soviet girls.

The models were set equal to the last digit odd jobs and received one of the lowest wages in the country.

Moreover, this trade was a constant target for satire. Remember the episode of "Diamond Hands" where the hero Andrei Mironov, along with beautiful girls defile the catwalk? It is believed that mannequins with their "low sense of social responsibility" may be true girlfriends embezzlers and thieves.

But the most unfair was, perhaps, that the names of the girls who walked the runway and take off for fashion magazines, knew virtually no one - they were deprived even of the right to fame.

On the Soviet mannequins suddenly remembered in the midst of restructuring, as in the 1990s. of them began to make films, write articles, and fashion historian Alexander Vasiliev in his book "The Russian fashion" have scrupulously all the names of boys and girls who demonstrated clothes in 1940 - 1980-ies.

Fate of Soviet fashion models developed in different ways - some of them were wives of recognized masters, others - eke out a miserable existence typical of pensioners, and others ...

... In November 1987, the legendary fashion model 1960 - Regina Zbarskaya committed suicide. She was only 51 years old. It all started like a fairy tale of Cinderella.

Seventeen year old girl, after school, Regina Kolesnikova come from Vologda to conquer Moscow. The aim was a beautiful girl (of course), Cinematography, however, familiarity with fashion designer Vera Aralov led Regina to the podium.

Regina, statuesque brunette, similar to Italian cinema - diva, quickly got sick of "star disease" - she became arrogant and constantly expressed disdain for the little girls disguised - colleagues.

She considered herself a queen, and, in general, irrational. Regina, as no one knew how to apply exhibited a dress, and crooked legs put in such a way that it is not conspicuous. The Western press has enthusiastically called her a "Soviet Sophia Loren." In addition, Regina was reputed to be clever and constantly rotated in a circle of the capital of Bohemia.

In the end, the queen of the catwalk has found his king. It turned out to dissident artist Leon Zbarsky, whose father - a famous scientist, Boris Zbarsky - once embalmed corpse of Lenin.

Regina, as all women who dreamed of motherhood, however, was strongly against Zbarsky furnishing the offspring - the queen of the catwalk was a part-time his muse and the muse are really pregnant?

After an abortion ... Regina first tried antidepressants, but, experienced pain, oddly enough, only helped her career. It was in those years Zbarskaya began to work with a young fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev.

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Whatever it was, but Lev Zbarsky still threw Regina - artists so fickle! However, the prodigal son of a Soviet scientist, in the end - all have changed not only his wife but also homeland - in the mid-1970s Zbarsky had gone abroad, that in those days was considered almost a crime.

And what about Regina? She could no longer work on the shows, because anti-depressants, which are dose increased, influenced by the hardness of the gait. Her old friend - Zaitsev gave Regina a cleaner for his fashion house, although he understood that it does not save the woman. Be a cleaner former queen catwalk and could not.

Life is the most stylish women of Moscow, diva, muse, tragically ended the cold autumn of 1987.

... Tatiana Solovieva came to get a job with a glove in his hand. Blond skinny girl just saw an ad on the door: "Wanted mannequins," well, I decided to try. Solovyov, not as an example, many of his colleagues, had higher education, for which he received a funny nickname "institutochka." But Slava Zaitsev called her Bottichellievskoy girl .

Her life will quite successful - marriage with Nikita Mikhalkov, the birth of children, social life ... In 1997, Tatiana created and headed a charity foundation "Russian Silhouette", established to support the Russian designers and manufacturers of domestic fashion.

Tatiana Chapygina , one of the most beautiful fashion models 1970, according to her, never dreamed of a career, "demonstrator clothes." After school, she received a career paramedic and worked in modestly sanepidemstantsii. In the country's fashion house at the Kuznetsk bridge Chapygina came only at the age of 23 years.

At work it took itself Vyacheslav Zaitsev, and already two years later, she was the first time abroad, in the GDR. Then there was America, Mexico, Japan.

If you open any fashion magazine Soviet 1970s, you will certainly see a strong and at the same time, incredibly kind, calm face Tatiana Chapygina.

When Tatiana was 35 years old, she met a man who became her career any more ...

Many of those "who are over 30," remember the fantastic film hit 80 - "Through the thorns to the stars", but few people know that the role of an alien Niyi played a fashion model Elena Metelkina .

With no kinoopyta, she has done with the role. In order to become a Niyyu, she had to give up ... hair - Niyya wore on his head shaved strange wig.

The work has been highly awarded Metelkina professionals - in 1982 at an international film festival of science fiction films in Trieste mannequin was awarded a special jury prize "Silver asteroid" for Best Actress.

Four years later, Helen starred in a children's fantasy film "Guest from the Future," where she played a cameo but memorable role of a woman from the future - Pauline.

Currently working as a consultant Metelkina at a shop.

It is said that when he saw Zaitsev Rumiyu , he said, "Goddess! Immediately take! "Rumija is a very topical in the 1970s, the image -" Woman of the Future, "a cold, mysterious - the mystical beauty of the fantasy of Ivan Efremov.

Photos Rumii constantly appearing on the covers of "fashion magazine." She showed, in general, evening, festive toilets, as suits her perfectly routine did not go.

In the early 1990s Rumija organized their own model agency, at one time was even a candidate for deputy of the Moscow Duma. Currently Rumija organizes concerts, presentations and exhibitions.

Mila Romanov increasingly recall due to two facts of her biography - the unspoken rivalry with Regina Zbarsky and "escape" in England.

Romanov, high cheek-bones blonde, was considered abroad, "Slavic beauty incarnate," sort of Birch . She tore down the applause, it came to the podium in a dress "Russia".

Dress "Russia" was originally sewed on Zbarsky - it was like Regina Byzantine princess, a luxurious and arrogant. But when "Russia" tried on Romanov, the artists decided it was more accurate in getting the image of Russia. In addition, unlike the capricious Regina, Mila was accommodating and relaxed - it can withstand many hours of trying on.

But ultimately, it was "demure" Romanov realized that the Soviet Union, with its unique beauty do simply nothing, and hastened to emigrate to the "civilized" kapstranu.

Now, when the profession of fashion models has become urgent, urgent and desirable fashion, young girls it is strange that in those early years it was considered almost a disgrace to marry on models. They say that even the Nikita Mikhalkov, only in the early 1990s, publicly admitted that it was not an interpreter Tanya ...