

Makeup miracles: Lia: Bioderma Micellar Water-I need it everyday, every minute. Odette: Bioderma Micellar Water, Embryolisse Lait-Crème ConcentrateĪ good hair day starts with: Lia: Hair Oil Odette: Goodwill Elixir Oil.

I like to keep it simple and not carry too many things. Medicine cabinet snapshot: Lia: Small mirror, lip balm and Bioderma Micellar Water. Your look in three words: Lia: All black, cozy, and flat shoes Odette: Relaxed, comfortable, vintage. Backstage, they shared their individual routines. Off duty, however, both Pavlovas are much more low-key. For the show, the Russian models wore a ’40s-inspired makeup look, including flushed cheeks, stained red lips, and masculine brows, while their hair was slicked back. This week, the dynamic duo was back in action at Stella McCartney’s Pre-Fall 2017 presentation. Meanwhile, May, although still working hard, (she’s starring in The Kooples’ autumn/winter campaign) didn’t do the international fashion weeks.Together, twin sisters Lia and Odette Pavlova dominated the runway last season, walking in 71 and 60 shows, respectively. 'Alber called me Mini-Me because I was dressed like him,’ she says. She did Gucci and Versace and opened the shows at Iris van Herpen and Lanvin, where she set a different tone for the house, speeding down the runway in a white shirt and black trousers. Her shaved head and small cherubic face made her 'unmissable’, as pointed out, on the catwalks of Milan and Paris. Ruth went to New York Fashion Week but didn’t walk a single show as she had to keep flying off on one brilliant job after another, including a shoot for a Saint Laurent advertising campaign. 'I think I worked for two weeks straight, then I had a day off, and then I worked a bit more,’ she says. Sims’s blurry, romantic Alexander McQueen autumn/winter 2015 campaign, with its shy, shorn Ruth, came out in August.

'I thought that I could do something more useful than selling it for extensions,’ she says. May had done this previously when her hair was cut from hip to shoulder length. She donated her old hair to the Prince’s Trust, to make wigs for children going through cancer treatment. Ellen von Unwerth shot them as pastoral Geminis for Italian Vogue they scored big campaigns for Topshop and Urban Outfitters. Now when I’m on a job and it’s a long day, I always think, it could be worse, I could be on an ambulance.’īetween them they began clocking up a nice portfolio. Ruth began modelling full- time last September, while May embarked on a short-lived university course in paramedic science. 'She is the clever one,’ Ruth adds.Īt the time of the competition they were still doing their A-levels, so they modelled occasionally, 'for pocket money’. studious Kim replaces the drunken and always in trouble model twin sis. They have a 21-year-old sister, who has just graduated in physics from Durham. This biography flix profiles the worlds tallest female twins, Heidi and Heather. 'We’ve never lived so far from the sea that we can’t walk to it,’ says May. Ruth is the guileless tomboy – 'or actually, just a boy’ as she puts it.īorn in Dover, Kent, they live down the coast now in Deal, with their father, an accountant, and mother, a civil servant. On the face of it, at least, May comes across as the grown-up –thoughtful, considered. 'May’s better at walking than me,’ explains Ruth cheerfully, as the two sit alongside each other amid the minimalist gloss of their agency boardroom. Pretty times two, those shared genes can lend a powerful beauty or eeriness to a photograph.īut when Elite entered the twins into its 2013 national modelling competition to see how they would fare, it was May alone who scooped the top prize, securing her the nomenclature 'Baby Kate Moss’ from the blog The Fashion Spot, and a two-week trip to China.
