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Tuesday,Mar 29 2005, 01:02:57 AMTravel’s Choice -- MARIJA VUJOVIC A girl...

Travel’s Choice -- MARIJA VUJOVIC

 

A girl worth a million. A million per year, that is. Her name is Marija Vujovic, she’s twenty and up till a year ago she lived with her parents and brother in a small country people don’t talk about much – Montenegro. Now she makes her home in New York and is a hot item among leading fashion mags. She works every day on the sets of the world’s biggest fashion photographers and that’s precisely the way she earns those fabulous sums. All money she’s not spending at the present, surely not to go on vacation. She doesn’t have the time, she says. As soon as she gets a few days off she flies back home to see her family, with whom she’s very close. Even if she hates planes, which as it is she must take all too often for work.

 

We met her in the New York studio where the spring/summer Max Mara campaign was being shot. A gorgeous girl, reserved and quiet (no cellphone addict is she), very simple and joyful. With her wonderful nature and top-notch professionalism, she’s a favorite among photographers and stylists.

 

Is it true you never take a day off? Every once in a while, a day or two. I adore stretching out on the beach, in silence. The one I prefer is in the Hamptons, a place I can get to easily enough from New York to spend the weekend – If there’s no traffic, it’s just two hours by car. I go there whenever I have a day off. I don’t care for long trips, the only one I take with pleasure is the territory long one home to Montenegro.

 

How do you spend your day at the beach? I get up late (finally!). I don’t think about what clothes to put on and start my day with a hearty breakfast. Then I head for the beach. In east Hampton they go on forever, are practically deserted despite the houses built right on the dunes. It’s so restful and beautiful. There are no coffee shops and restaurants, no neighbors with music blaring on the radio. Because there are no neighbors, or they’re quite far away. So you bring a small picnic lunch and a book, you observe the waves and the seagulls soaring. Everything is limpid, clean, discreet. The way I like it.

 

What about the evening? When my boyfriend is around – he too is from Montenegro, he studies in New York – we choose a good restaurant yet not one of the ones that are really in. The laundry, for instance. It’s a local family restaurant, in town but with a small garden. There are lots of kids, it’s cheerful, the food is great while not too expensive.

 

Don’t you hang out with the New York fashion crowd, so very much on the scene in the Hamptons?

 

No, I know a lot of people have houses here, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan too, but nearly everyone holes up at home. The best way to experience the Hamptons is to rent a place of your own. There are some very lovely ones, small even, in the middle of the woods. Almost everybody does this, because there aren’t many hotels and they’re always full. Otherwise you have to go down the coast toward Montauk, where you find a series of resorts – not so elitist – where you can stay also just for a few days. I don’t care for five-stars (not even when working), I prefer something simpler.

 

What do you suggest?

 

The east Hampton house, in town but with a nice garden, swimming-pool and gym. From there you can go shopping on foot. It’s fun because there are the same stores you find in New York, just smaller, one next to the other. In half an hour you can hit them all.

 

Which is your favorite?

 

A small drugstore where there’s a little of everything. American folk items, hippie type jewelry. It’s name is the Victorian Shop. And then Calipso, for something a bit different in a swimsuit or pair of pants.

 

Anything interesting to visit?

 

The house where Jackson Pollock lived and worked for years. Now it’s open to visitors. It’s very interesting because it’s still intact, exactly the way it was back in the 1950s.

 

What’s in your suitcase?

 

My jeans – could never be without – a sweatshirt, pajamas and beauty-case. And a picture of my family.

 

Confess your beauty secret for feeling and looking great while on vacation.

 

I use only a lot of moisturizing cream, morn and night, plus lip balm for my lips. And of course a high protection factor sunscreen for the beach. That’s it. But the real secret for enjoying your vacation is to be relaxed and happy. Then any place in the world becomes beautiful.

 

MARIJA’S FAVORITE RESTAURANTS

 
  • Laundry, 31 Race Lane, East Hampton, ph. 631-32431999

     

  • Farmhouse, 341 Montauk Highway, ph. 631-324 8585

     

  • Nick & Toni’s, 136 North Main St., ph 631-3243550

     

  • Della Femmina, 99 North Main St., East Hampton, ph. 631-32966666

     

HOTELS

 
  • 1770 House, 143 Main St., East Hampton, ph. 631-3241770

     

  • Mill House Inn, 31 North Main St., East Hampton, ph. 631-3249766

     

  • Maidstone Arms Inn, 207 Main St., ph. 631-3245006

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Friday,Mar 18 2005, 11:11:53 AMJulia Stegner on Versace juliastegner20050224

Julia Stegner on Versace

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"It was an amazing show. Beautiful. Very Sexy. What was not so funny was when my dress snapped and it kind of fell off, but I was holding it up so I think it was OK. I hope not everybody could see my breasts."

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Wednesday,Mar 16 2005, 11:48:00 AMCaroline Winberg: few weeks ago there was an...

Caroline Winberg: few weeks ago there was an article about Caroline in Sweden's leading business paper. (thanks to the forum)

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The headline talks about her making a lot of money modeling. " I think it's important to have your finances in order. As a model your career is short and hopefully the money I make during these years will last the rest of my life" The money she makes goes into her own company, Caroline Winberg Inc. Recently she met with her economic advisors in New York that among other business gave an account of how much money she made last year. "It's lots, lots of money", she says. How much? "That I don't want to discuss. I haven't even dared to tell my parents." The article says she's looking for the apartment of her dreams in New York. "I think it's wise to invest in real estate. Besides, it also opens for large tax reductions", she says. Like all models today Caroline's tall and thin. But she's having some difficulty explaining why she is so in demand. "I'm well-behaved, arrives on time and goes to bed early when I can. Then I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best photographers and I've had good agencys that have pushed me forward." She, herself, finds her looks far from perfect. "I've got some skin problems and baby-thin hair..." "She's marked by an incident a couple of years ago, when she in a documentary said that Mick Jagger had called her a number of times - something that soon reached the tabloids. "It was in the very beginning of my modeling career. I was 17 and gave a straight answer to a question. I learned a lot from that. Today I never talk about what celebrities I might have met" Then the article moves on to how Caroline's dream job would be a long term contract with Victoria's Secret, because then she'd never, ever have to worry about money. She plans on continue modeling at least until she's 25. What she'll do when that day comes, she hasn't decided but she says that it feels great to know she'll never have to do something just to make money, that she's free to choose whatever she's most interested in doing.

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Wednesday,Mar 16 2005, 11:27:49 AMHanka is a nicer way how to say Hana. Hana...

Hanka is a nicer way how to say Hana. Hana is too strong. The nicest way how to call a woman named Hana is Hanička! It's very soft!
My name is Veronika and in Czech you can call me Verunka, Verča, Veroušek... Eunka is more like a nickname. I used to call myself like that when I was a little child and couldn't talk very well...My mom, sisters, boyfriend and closer friends still call me like that. Ad. Ben Grimes - Hanka told me, Ben is very nice girl. They are really good friends.

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Tuesday,Mar 15 2005, 02:48:19 AMTranslation from MissDior (Russian Vogue) ->...

Translation from MissDior (Russian Vogue) -> She (Eugenia Volodina) had to be born as an italian - Russian Vogue photos her for Italian Vogue number, Italian Vogue admires her, disainer Valentino says that ''her beauty is amazing'', her first ad campaign was Gucci, and and after all she is simillar to amazing star (smth like this, not sure). But before we coudn't imagine that this exotic butterfly was born in Kazahstan. ''I am russian model'' says Zenja ''and when I will finish my work in this buisness, I am going to return home. Although I don't know what I am going to do then''.

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