1. Tatiana Sorokko walked the runways for the world's most prominent designers and fashion houses, appeared on covers of leading fashion magazines, and became the first Russian model of the post-Soviet period to gain international recognition.
17 Facts About Tatiana Sorokko
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Tatiana Sorokko was frequently photographed for editorials and covers of European and American magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, W, Elle, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.
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In 1992, she and her husband, Serge Tatiana Sorokko, moved to California.
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Tatiana Sorokko appeared on the cover of Runway, a book of fashion photographs by Larry Fink, and was featured opposite Brad Pitt in a commercial for Acura Integra.
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Tatiana Sorokko was the subject of a book, published in Moscow, Russian Models, by Ekaterina Vasilyeva, which credited her as the first widely recognized Russian model to emerge after perestroika.
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Tatiana Sorokko, who is proficient in both English and Russian, started a new job as its Foreign Correspondent and Contributing Editor with the release of the December 2001 issue of Vogue's Russian edition.
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Tatiana Sorokko covered a variety of subjects and people as the creator of Telegram from Tatiana Sorokko, a well-liked monthly column of fashion and style commentary.
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In January 2005, Tatiana Sorokko began work as Contributing Editor for American Harper's Bazaar.
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Tatiana Sorokko has styled shoots featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins and Linda Evans, Donatella Versace and daughter, Allegra Beck, fashion designer Andrew Gn and Tod's founder, Diego Della Valle, Republican Presidential Nominee, Senator John McCain and wife Cindy McCain, Wolfgang Puck and his wife, accessories designer Gelila Assefa, and Ralph Lauren in Moscow, among others.
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In December 2014, Tatiana Sorokko made a modeling comeback with a six-page fashion editorial in Harper's Bazaar shot by Mark Seliger.
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Tatiana Sorokko is an avid collector of haute couture and antique jewelry, and has frequently donated or loaned pieces from her collection to various museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York, the de Young Museum and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco, the Phoenix Art Museum, among others.
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Tatiana Sorokko is often invited to speak on the subjects of fashion and style, and her engagements have been with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Phoenix Art Museum, the San Francisco Academy of Art University, and in 2019, with the Moscow State University.
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Tatiana Sorokko has been a featured guest on The Martha Stewart Show a number of times, discussing a wide range of topics, from cooking to fashion and collecting couture.
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Tatiana Sorokko became a private client for quite a few of them, most notably Ralph Rucci, and the show, according to FIT Museum director Valerie Steele, included "lots of beautiful Ralph Rucci".
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Tatiana Sorokko was named in 2000 to the International "100 Best Dressed" list by American Vogue, and in 2007 to the "Best Dressed Women of All Time" list by Harper's Bazaar in its 140th anniversary issue.
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Tatiana Sorokko made Bazaar's yearly Best Dressed list again continuously from 2008 to 2014.
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In 1992, Tatiana Sorokko married Serge Tatiana Sorokko, real estate developer and art collector turned art dealer with galleries in San Francisco, New York, and Beverly Hills.