THE UK PARLIAMENTARY
AMBASSADORS
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Natalia Kapchuk
UK ART AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ART, FASHION & SPORTS
Natalia Kapchuk is a Russian contemporary artist based in Dubai and London. Inspired by her mother who is also an artist, Natalia began drawing and at a very early age. She studied Art and International Relations in Russia, although part of her has always been in the world of glamour and fashion.
While studying Art, she started a modeling career and quickly won a couple of beauty pageant competitions. After that her career in fashion industry skyrocketed. Being a top model and an actress influenced her art intensely, and one could say that Natalia has widely opened the window to shed light of glitterati world into the vast universe of contemporary art. Natalia’s life is all about the colors and her travels around the globe are her greatest source of inspiration. The world of the rich&famous is the physical world in which Natalia lives daily, whereas her paintings reflect that world into different dimensions. On canvas, Natalia sensitively leaves her fingerprints of the world we know from magazine covers and transforms it into spiritual world. Natalia’s ability to function in both universes presents a rare case of a model/artist dichotomy. She is able to survive in the hard world of the entertainment industry and yet stay sensitive enough to translate materialistic dimensions into abstract layers of thick, vivid and playful art.
Always ready to experiment with new techniques one can find Natalia’s favorites artistic moves in spray paint, magazine collage, oil, acrylic and, lately, airbrush.
Production of Natalia Kapchuk’s art pieces presents the world of glamour through the eyes of a fashion model and an artist – a unique and intense perception, where one can sense the synergies from both worlds in each piece one of work she creates. Natalia – a model, actress and an urban pop artist is now ready to share her he-art with the world.
Instagram : @kapchuk Facebook: NKapchuk
KIERA CHAPLIN
UK ART AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ART, FASHION & SPORTS
Kiera began her modeling career in New York as a teenager, where she appeared in the pages of high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and In Style Magazine. She has graced the covers of Town and Country, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar to name a few and has been in various ad campaigns such as United colors of Benetton, Tommy Hilfiger, Asprey, Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld, Armani Exchange, and has even appeared in the Pirelli Calendar shot by Peter Lindberg. Miss Chaplin has shot with many of the fashion industry’s top photographers during her time as a model: Bruce Weber, Herb Ritz, Greg Kadel, Mario Testino, Pamela Hanson, Michel Compte, Inez and Vinoodh and Karl Lagerfeld. FHM magazine named Kiera 17th most eligible woman on their list and GQ gave her the 7th spot on the “100 sexiest woman” list. In addition to modelling, Chaplin is a film actress and producer. She has a 30% stake in the Hollywood-based film company Limelight Productions, named after her grandfather's last American film. This young lady is genuine “Hollywood Royalty,” with a grade “A” artistic DNA heritage, as a granddaughter of film legend Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill, and a great-granddaughter of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O’Neill but has always wanted to prove herself in her own right and started collaborations with different fashion brands as well as getting into production of TV and film. Recently Kiera has collaborated with Hogan Rebel and designed a limited edition sneaker, and in 2018 Kiera became brand Ambassador for watch company Saint Honore, and has designed a capsule collection of 6 watches that will be launched in spring 2019. Kiera Chaplin has starred in a number of movies such as “The Importance of Being Ernest” featuring Reese Witherspoon, Ruppert Everett, Judy Dench and Colin Firth. She is also in “The Year that Trembled” directed by Jay Craven, “Japan” featuring Peter Fonda, and “Chaurahen” directed by Rajshree Ojha. As well as "Interno Giorno”, directed by Tommaso Rossellini, which also stars the great actress Fanny Ardant. Miss Chaplin is also a guest judge on Project Runway Allstars 2019 edition. Since 2011, Kiera has been involved with the Film Society Lincoln Center’s annual Chaplin Award Gala. In recent years the Chaplin Award has gone to Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks, and Morgan Freeman. The Gala helps raise funds helping to support the organization’s ongoing work to enhance the awareness, accessibility, and understanding of the art of cinema. In 2018 Kiera created the Chaplin Awards Asia which was received with huge success and has been compared to an event matching AMFAR. She now plans on expanding to Bollywood and Russia. One of Kiera’s biggest passion is empowering women and since 2017 Kiera has been participating in “The Rally Aicha des Gazelles”. This car rally takes place in the Moroccan desert for 8 days and only features women. Its goal is to empower women and also has a charity component that brings doctors to small villages to tend to patents in need.
SERGIO BERNAL
UK ARTS AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ART, FASHION & SPORTS
The company Sergio Bernal in the hands of its artistic director Ricardo Cue conceives the ballet from a premise that comes to satisfy a public that demands emotions. Creating a show with the purpose of reaching international dimensions in Spanish dance and flamenco, through the neoclassical style, placing it at the height of the best representations of classical dance works is the aim of the company.
The co-director of the company Sergio Bernal, a first dancer with the National Ballet of Spain, is the only dancer who, even coming from a Spanish dance and flamenco dance training, has represented classic pieces such as "El Cisne" with magnificent acceptance from critics and audiences. In his figure materializes the reason of this company.
Combining the strengths, knowledge and experiences of each of the team members favors compliance with this premise. The aim is to enhance the Spanish Dance based on the virtuosity, versatility and variety of the different styles of Spanish dance and music, ranging from the escuela bolera, the Spanish classic dance and flamenco.
The international presence of Spain covers many areas, like science, art, sports, opera, classical dance, and other cultural fields. There is only one field in which our country has no rival: Spanish dance and flamenco. And it is in this concept that the company finds another of its artistic ends.
The experience of Sergio Bernal in his career, lead him to consider new challenges. He feels pushed to deliver everything he has learned to a real audience that fills theaters in the world. That is why the company is currently working on a project that gives life to one of the most recognized fashion designers in the history of fashion. A creator who fell in love with dance and music, he has dressed the choreographies of Roland Petit for the Paris Opera and made a "Russian collection" inspired by the Ballets Russes. Maya Plisetskaya was one of his muses. "La Rose Malade" choreographed by Roland Petit was dressed by this designer.
OLIVIA ARBEN
MODEL
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Olivia Arben is a British Model with an established career, having graced the covers of Vogue magazine, Numero Magazine, Elle Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, Glamour magazine & L’Officiel magazine to mention but a few. She has starred in numerous campaigns and walked London & Paris Fashion week for designers such as Rami Kadi, Roland Mouret, Malan Breton & Joshua Kane. Olivia currently has her own collection of shoes with Terry De Havilland, a line based on her British rock n roll style with a Claudia Schiffer/ Brigette Bardot twist, two people Olivia says heavily influence her work. Olivia is also an Ambassador for the British Heart Foundation. She is one of five official female ambassadors alongside Pippa Middleton & The Duchess of York, a role she is very proud of. As an ambassador she works to raise awareness of heart health via her social media platforms which have over 1.5million followers. Olivia hopes to focus attention to the British fashion industry via her platforms as a new Fashion Ambassador for the Parliamentary Society.
IVANA DE HAAN
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
I was born in Serbia and came to the Netherlands as a five year old. When I was seventeen I started working as an administrative assistant at an employment agency and worked my way up to Technical Intermediary. During my career as an intermediary, I followed a five-year HBO-P and A course at the SOSA, Hoogeschool Haarlem. I graduated in 2001.
In the same year I started my first company with two other companions. An employment agency for technical personnel. In 2003 I started my second company, also with them. A metal company company that made parts for the dairy industry. We did International business, including Poland. In 2009 I set up a new company, without partners. In a downward economy I succeeded in turning it into a very successful company.
At the end of 2015 I thought I should do something completely different with my life. That has resulted in a private exclusive hand bags and ties line under the name, IVANA. The collection was first received at the LXRY Fair in December 2016.
During the year 2017 and the first half of 2018 I have traveled a lot to promote my brand through events and fashion shows in Monaco, Paris, Madeira and Amsterdam. During the same period I was asked several times as a speaker in London, Dubai and Ghana. To top it all off I have been able to offer the Royal Family in Monaco an exclusive bag with matching ties from my collection.
MIKE BECKINGHAM
UK ARTS AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ART, FASHION & SPORTS
English actor and writer Mike Beckingham is the son of jazz musician John Henry Beckingham and Christine Beckingham (maiden name Christine Hawkins). His siblings include Simon Pegg(birth name Simon John Beckingham), Steven John Beckingham, and Katy Pegg. Beckingham was educated at Thomas Keble Secondary School in Eastcombe Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. In 1999, Beckingham was recruited onto the Forest Green Rovers Football (soccer) Academy (farm team for the professional soccer team Forest Green). After his release in 2001, Beckingham began in the financial industry serving as a Customer Service Advisor in a Call Center. In 2006, he was one of four managers overseeing a Call Center of 60 agents. In 2010, Beckingham joined a banking firm providing financial advice.
During this time, Beckingham pursued his acting career. In order to get comfortable on camera and gain experience, he developed concepts for television shows. In 2001, he developed the idea to interview celebrities, take them out of their life style now, and put them back into the communities in which they grew up. He filmed his prototype in 2010 with the aid of the School of Media, University of Gloucestershire. The University provided Post Graduate students who wanted the experience and professional credit for creating a television show. The first celebrity filmed was Beckingham's brother, English actor and comedian Simon Pegg. The Cotswold Style magazine of Cheltenham contacted Beckingham and published a two page article on Beckingham's concepts and the creation of the prototype. The prototype caught the attention of Agent Paul Wareing, who became Beckingham's agent in 2011. Wareing advanced the concept of filming an actual pilot to Peter Barry of "The Little Green Shed Video Productions". For the pilot, Beckingham interviewed world renowned French ice skater Julien Duliere.
In 2012, Wareing met Georgia Hilton, the Director and Writer of the feature film Subconscious (2015) starring Tim Abell due out in the summer of 2014. Hilton was looking for a cheeky character to costar in the principal cast role of a paranormal investigator. She was so impressed with Beckingham during auditions that she rewrote the part to tell the story of an English investigator being recruited to travel to the US to aid in the investigation aboard a haunted WWII submarine. Prior to his travel to the US, Hilton arranged for a British film crew headed by renowned cinema photographer Peter Barry to film some of the opening sequences of the film.
During the filming of his debut role in 2013, Mike teamed with fellow cast member Lynwood Metts to write Young Arthur - The Quest for Avalon (pre-production), to be directed by Georgia Hilton. Beckingham is also slotted to star in another Hilton film, New Hampshire Daze (in development).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lynwood Metts
Mike Beckingham is an upcoming British award winning actor. Mike is a third generation actor, brother Simon Pegg. Mike grew up in the countryside of Gloucestershire, very proud of his roots but London was calling and this is where he now resides. Mike attended Thomas Keble School in Gloucestershire. His Dad John Beckingham is a jazz & blues musician. Mikes debut feature film was Subconscious (2013), his next feature film was Redwood (2017) which Mike won Best Actor at the British Horror Film Festival 2017 and for which it also won Best Thriller at the National Film Awards 2018, for which Mike was also nominated for Best Actor.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mike Beckingham
JOSHUA KANE
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Oxford born, London-based Joshua Kane studied at Kingston University receiving a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fashion Design. He gained a wealth of experience beginning his career at Brooks Brothers (New York) followed by Jaeger, Burberry Prorsum (reporting directly to Christopher Bailey on runway collection), before moving to Paul Smith to work as Senior Designer. In 2014 Joshua Kane established his own label working from his London apartment creating bespoke tailoring made by himself for friends and acquaintances. With demand rapidly outgrowing production capability, within 6 months Joshua implemented a ready- to-wear collection, his first Joshua Kane Runway collection shown during London Collection Men and proceeded to open his first store in East London's Spitalfields. In 2016 Joshua was short listed for ‘Beyond the Runway’ category in The Fashion Futures Awards 2016, (held by Decoded Fashion in association with the British Fashion Council) for ground- breaking use of media and film for his marketing and retail campaigns. Recent Awards include IARA Best Fashion Designer ( 2016 and 2017) and most recently The 21st Century Icon Award for Savvy Luxury Retailer of the year. https://joshuakanestore.com/about
JOE RICOTTA
UK ARTS & SPORTS AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ART, FASHION & SPORTS
Joe has over 27 years experience in logistics. He started ‘PCL Transport 24/7 Ltd’ building it into one of the UK’s top chilled distribution specialists. He has since extended his interest in property development in both residential and commercial in the UK, Spain and his parents’ hometown in Sicily. He has opened two traditional Sicilian restaurants in the UK. Joe has recently developed Sicily.co.uk. This website explores the beauty of Sicily, and all it has to offer. They say behind every successful man there is a strong woman, well; Joe has four, his wife, Josie and three daughters who contribute within the businesses.
Outside of business and politics, Joe is honoured to be a patron of the Make-A-Wish charity and involved with its Winter Ball committee.
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RD
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDI (née Swire; born 8 April 1941- 22 Dec 2022) was a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road, which became known as "SEX". It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, dominated by McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She was inspired by the shock-value of punk—"seeing if one could put a spoke in the system".
Westwood went on to open four shops in London, eventually expanding throughout the United Kingdom and the world, selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise, some of it linked to her many political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change and civil rights groups.
DOMENICO MELITI
EDM ENERGY AND PROPERTIES OWNER
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Domenico Meliti born in Monza in 1976 and arrived in London on 7 February 1999. In a few years I created a company that builds and restructures, in the United Kingdom, about 1000 apartments a year, affirming Italian know-how also in construction projects. After studying architectural and urban design in Milan, the young Meliti, at the end of the 1990s, while Italian building was all projected on Middle Eastern and North African orders, imagined an Anglo-Saxon expansion of his concept of entrepreneur As soon as I improved my knowledge of English, I resumed my studies to obtain the necessary qualifications related to mechanical and industrial systems. He attends the famous English institution RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), and it is there that, during a reception, the turning point that changes his life arrives. Meliti meets an architect who is confident of having difficulties in the mechanical phases of an important project, failing to find valid contractors (today it would be different, due to the presence of many Italian professional architects; in those days there was no competition, there were few ). "The architect offers me the work that I gladly accepted. Actually, I had very little experience, but it was also necessary to start and I accepted with enthusiasm the offer, even knowing that it was my first job in the mechanical sector. With difficulty, and intuition, I can solve the problem and this was my springboard. From this meeting begins my climb which later leads me to work in the Square Mile of the City ". I collaborate with local authorities to obtain the necessary authorizations that I need for the renovation of buildings. I can thus become the precursor of prefabrication in and around London. So I started to enter a new road almost against the current and formed EMD, a company that soon became a success, with a constant growth of 200%. The moment is favorable and by exploiting with skill a fortunate series of opportunities, the EMD earns an excellent reputation, through the good conduction and conclusion of contracts like banks, hotels, old buildings transformed into residential realities. With substantial conditions being equal, customers realize that they can count on an attitude of complete collaboration, on a better level of finishing in the restructuring, in respect of time and costs supported by a always courteous and correct management in the customer-company relationship. In a short time I become the managing director of the construction and renovation company. The other local companies try to imitate our professionalism and our winning formula of the "design and build", a concept that sees my restructuring company take full responsibility for the overall responsibility of the building intervention, from its conception to the final realization. The EMD, under my guidance takes on very complex planning and construction assignments for commissions of great strategic importance in the building world. The rapid affirmation of EMD on the British market - with an annual growth of almost 400% - finds its origin in a series of restructurings. "We are specializing in live operations - explains Meliti - as in many cases we are forced by the characteristics of the building intervention and by the client's logistic and financial situation to carry out radical modification work without the customer having to evacuate the real estate plant ". Now my team consists of 120 people, with a growth plan that will allow me to increase it in the near future. My tenacity has meant that we have won the largest residential conversion contract in the whole of the United Kingdom in Bristol, which will see us build 467 housing units. This entrepreneurial exhibition of mine has managed to give me the opportunity to establish relations with the Government parties and to get to know them from numerous personalities in the local political world. As an entrepreneur I am very active also at Chamber level, as a director of the prestigious Italian Chamber of Commerce in London, carrying out numerous activities of representation and support for the Italian business world. All these 'signals' support the hope of seeing me soon recognized as one of the leading European and international entrepreneurs. Last note on the list, being chosen by the prime minister's office to draft a capitol of the prestigious Parliamentary Review that will be presented in September 2019.
FERNANDO MONTANO
DANCER
UK ART AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Fernando Rodriguez Montaño (born 6 March 1985) is a Colombian ballet dancer, and soloist with the Royal Ballet, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. On November 19, 2015 he made his debut in a principal role when he performed 'the lover' in The Two Pigeons. He is the first Colombian to dance with the company having joined them in 2006. Fernando has performed in many different countries including Mexico, Russia, Japan, China, Jamaica, Spain, Italy and US, works regularly with the British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, and produces and choreographs his own shows around the world. He was described by BBC TV in 2013 as 'the Colombian Billy Elliot'. [1] In 2016 Fernando took a sabbatical and returned to Colombia to visit his family and be a judge on 52 episodes of the first ever Colombian series of Dancing with the Stars, known locally as Bailando con las Estrellas. He was also the subject of a BBC documentary, 'Dancing for Peace', that was broadcast in the UK and around the world in 2016. On September 10th 2016 Montaño premiered 'Foot-Ba', his new fusion of dance and football, at the globally televised opening ceremony of the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Cali.
REBECCA FERDINANDO
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Rebecca Ferdinando is an English actress, best known for playing Mary in the British gangster film Bonded by Blood..
Ferdinando attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School from a young age before studying drama at Middlesex University where she gained a BA Honours degree.
Rebecca began her acting career as a child when she appeared in roles for television such as Holby City, The Last Detective and Silent Witness.
When she was eighteen she was signed by some of London's top modelling and commercial agents which led her to work for some famous brands and campaigns such as Vivienne Westwood.[unreliable source?][5] This work funded her through drama school and then presenting on Channel Five's The Great Big British Quiz, while modelling for shows like This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and GMTV.
Since graduating she has played roles including as Dorrabella for BBC's Elgar's Enigma, Beanie in the feature film Shank; directed by Mo Ali, Mary alongside Tamer Hassanin Bonded By Blood and most recently she played Cheryl in Outside Bet which was released on 24 April 2012.
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Randy Koussou Sogan
PRINCE OF BENIN
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Prince Randy Koussou Alam-Sogan is a Tribal Prince of the Kingdom of Dahomey (current day Republic of Benin) with mixed culture from the Nations of Benin and Togo (West Africa) and part ancestry from Lebanon and Egypt.
He is the Chairman & Chief Investment Strategist of the BLH Group, a Pan-African Investment Advisory Firm and the newly created Africa Securitization Mega Fund, all subsidiaries of the Africa Global Capital Corporation.
BLHG key expertise include a diverse range of Industries such as Infrastructure Development, Real Estate Development, Renewable Energy, Mining, Agri-Business, Telecoms, Transports and Logistics, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Security. Black Lion is currently active in 35 African Countries, and manages over 200 Investment Deals and Assets.
His philanthropic activities include the founding of : building and improving all Public-School Infrastructure & Systems in Africa by 2030, the newly created “Abiditha Foundation” which is a Women Empowerment Initiative aimed at providing Impact Investment Funds for female business owners and entrepreneurs throughout Africa.
http://www.princerandysogan.com
http://www.blacklion-holding.com
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ROSALIE G NELSON
MODEL
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Rosie Nelson, a model and campaigner from Australia based in London. When pressured to lose weight continuously by a leading modelling agency in London she decided to launch a petition to challenge the industry and bring in legislation to help protect other models from being forced to lose weight. After having amassed 100,000 signatures within only a few months she spoke in a parliamentary inquiry and lead the way for a new healthier standard within fashion.
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YUJR BUZZI
ACTOR /COACH
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
ON HIS OWN WORDS.. 'I'am an actor, creative director and life coach with the passion for poetry and photography.
I was born in Vigevano in 1978. At the age of twenty I left Puglia and went to study at the School Of Cinema in Rome (Acting & Directing) and subsequently at The Actor Centre in London.
Currently I am doing my accredited ICF diploma, in life coaching at the Animas Centre for Coaching in London.
I have travelled a lot with my work and I have had the pleasure of working with numerous directors such as Paul Feig in the movie Spy, produced by 20th Century Fox, Mandie Fletcher in the movie Patrick for Walt Disney UK, Jordan Scott and Peter Thwaites in the worldwide campaign for Martini & Rossi produced by Gorgeous film and RSA Film, Angelo Longoni in the movie "Tiberio Mitri - The champion and the miss", Luca Lucini in the movie "Just Married” and also with Alessandro D'Alatri on several campaigns for major brands such as Telecom, Dreher, TIM and Repubblica…
I love writing. I find it really therapeutic. My first book "My life on a cactus" a collection of 32 poems and a monologue for theatre, was published in 2008 by Casa editrice Giuseppe Laterza & figli.
My passion for theatre made me write and direct “I will not go down from here” an extract from my book, which won a Theatre Award In Naples at the Naples Cultural Classic (A monologue about suicide, which caught the attention of the newspapers).
My point of view as a director emerged from being on both sides of the camera and my passion for photography has developed alongside moving images.
In 2014 I relocated to London and joined Najma Bhatti at Four55 Ltd our Creative Agency, where my skills in writing and co-directing have created a great symbiosis.
Our latest success has been creating, directing and producing the opening show at the DIFF (Dubai Film Festival 2016) which won gold at the Muse Creative Awards. In advertising we have won Platinum at the Hermes Creative Awards with the TVC Bleu the Chanel written, directed and produced by us. We have also worked on the Lana Del Rey TVC “Honeymoon” advert and at the last Campaign for Boots, No 7 Serum, alongside the BAFTA award winning director Tom Harper starring Prima Ballerina Alessandra Ferri.
Grazie to been part of my journey …
Anastasia VonSivers
UK FASHION AMBASSADOR FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY SOCIETY OF ARTS, FASHION & SPORTS
Anastasia VonSiver, is a British- Russian business woman with unwavering determination. VonSIvers was born in the heart of Russia's North-West in a quaint military town. From an early age, her inquisitive nature and hunger for knowledge fuelled her ambitions, setting her on a remarkable path to becoming a prominent businesswoman, passionate art dealer, and compassionate advocate for those in need.
At the age of 18, Anastasia made a life-altering decision to pursue higher education in the cultural epicentre of Russia—St. Petersburg. She embarked on a captivating journey, immersing herself in the captivating world of academia, thirsting for intellectual growth, and embracing the rich tapestry of artistic expression. With an unwavering dedication to her studies, she graduated from both a prestigious TV school and the esteemed University of Journalism in Moscow, honing her skills in communication and storytelling.
Anastasia's insatiable curiosity led her to the alluring realm of television, where she delved into the captivating world of broadcasting. Her dynamic presence and innate ability to captivate audiences propelled her through various roles within renowned TV channels, solidifying her reputation as a consummate professional in the industry.
In 2014, Anastasia, armed with her extensive education and vast network of connections, embarked on a transformative journey across continents, setting her sights on the bustling city of London. Recognizing her potential as a refined connoisseur of art, she seamlessly transitioned into the realm of art dealership, collaborating with prestigious art galleries. This new venture not only allowed her to fuse her passion for culture and creativity but also provided her with the opportunity to engage with fellow enthusiasts, fostering lasting connections within the art community.
Driven by an insatiable thirst for knowledge and an unyielding commitment to excellence, Anastasia embarked on a transformative educational experience at Sotheby's University. There, she undertook the esteemed Art & Business course, further enhancing her understanding of the intricacies of the art world and honing her expertise as an art dealer of exceptional calibre.
While her artistry flourished, Anastasia's heart yearned for more—a deep-seated passion for the captivating allure of natural gemstones and the enchanting world of bespoke jewellery. Equipped with a coveted certificate from the Gemmological Institute of America (GIA) in coloured stones, she resolved to manifest her dreams by establishing her very own jewellery company. In this pursuit, she aimed not only to create stunning and distinctive jewellery pieces but also to trade in exquisite diamonds and gemstones of unparalleled beauty.
Yet, beyond the world of art and business, Anastasia's indomitable spirit longed to make a profound impact on the lives of others, particularly those who could not help themselves—the innocent souls of children. Driven by compassion and guided by a deep-rooted sense of responsibility, she dedicated herself to philanthropic endeavours, channelling her resources and influence to uplift and empower the less fortunate. Her altruistic efforts served as a beacon of hope for those in need, illustrating her commitment to making a lasting difference in the world.
Anastasia VonSiver, a visionary businesswoman, art dealer, and philanthropist, weaves together the threads of elegance, creativity, and compassion, shaping a legacy defined by her unwavering pursuit of excellence and her unwavering dedication to the betterment of humanity. With each remarkable achievement and act of benevolence, she continues to inspire those around her, leaving an indelible mark on the realms of art, business, and the lives she touches along her extraordinary journey.