Sasha Pivovarova

 Sasha Pivovarova was born in Moscow. She has two brothers and a sister. As a child, She always dreamt

of becoming a movie star, or an artist. She started taking art classes at the age of 6, and then went on to study art history at the University of Moscow. Despite her large family, Sasha’s mother always took time

to take her to see a new exhibition or a show, as it was her passion. As she matured she started visiting different art studios and learned from the masters. She also took courses at the St.-Petersburg New Academy of Fine Art with Igor Visnyakov, Egor Ostro, Sergey Bugaev "AFRIKA”, Geogi Gurianov and heard the lectures of Timur Novikov. The University of Moscow’s art program was well suited for Sasha as it drew her interest towards Expressionism, Symbolism and Post Expressionism. Sasha started modeling in February 2005 when a photographer friend from NYC introduced her to IMG. Two weeks later she opened for the Prada show in Milan. Within just one year of modeling, she had earned some of the highest accolades a model can accomplish namely by appearing on two Italian Vogue covers.

She has consistently appeared in the most prestigious fashion magazines, including American Vogue, Italian Vogue, French Vogue, British Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Chinese Vogue, W, V Magazine, POP and Numéro. She has worked with such renowned photographers as Steven Meisel, Peter Lindberg, Michael Thompson, Mario Sorrenti, Nathaniel Goldberg, Craig McDean, and Paolo Roversi.

Sasha adds to her repertoire maintaining one of the longest running Prada exclusives, going on 6 seasons, a true muse for one of the most highly regarded names in fashion. She is also the face of Armani cosmetics.

Sasha has continuosly, from the beginning of her career, walked the runway for top designers, including Prada, Gucci, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, Chloe, Valentino, Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier, Miu Miu,

Hermes, Kenzo, Victor & Rolf, Dolce & Gabanna, Balenciaga, Zac Pozen, Fendi and Yohji Yamamoto.

Through her modelling Sasha travels extensively which allows her to visit many museums, exhibitions and studios of artist friends. She sketches all the time on any thing she can find (coffee, wine, charcoal, pencils, etc) and uses her free time to paint. Her work has been featured in French Vogue among other high caliber editorial magazines.

The world around her continues to be a source of inspiration. At the moment her interest is in portraiture and landscape drawing. Sasha attributes her beauty to her mother, who she resembles. Her beauty secrets are Chinese u loon tea and Shaolin Kung-fu, as well as being a vegetarian and abstaining from alcohol.