{"id":119732,"date":"2019-04-03T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/?p=119732"},"modified":"2019-04-03T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T21:06:04","slug":"vive-la-ivanka-the-show-jumping-equestrian-beauty-turning-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/vive-la-ivanka-the-show-jumping-equestrian-beauty-turning-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive la Ivanka! The show jumping equestrian beauty turning heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.centerimg {padding:4em 10em;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg2 {padding:4em 18em;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg3 {padding:4em 5em;margin:20px 0;}\n.sidetxt {padding:16em 2em 16em 2em;;margin:20px 0;}\n.centerimg img {margin-bottom:0px;}\n.instagram-media {margin:auto !important;}\n#wp-content hr {margin: 40px auto 80px auto;width: 80%;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-10.19.49-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1877\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-10.19.49-AM.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-10.19.49-AM-511x640.jpg 511w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-10.19.49-AM-1023x1280.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Somewhere, off in the distance\u2013\u2013Paris, there is the faint roll and rumble of a bombshell making a boom. Considering, the bombshell in question, <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/models\/ivanka-smilenko\">Ivanka Smilenko<\/a>, has been riding and jumping horses since the age of 4, maybe the sound is actually a gallop. Those whose jobs it is to pick up such movement on the modeling Richter scale heard and are now paying close attention to the 18-year-old French model. To be fair, Ivanka is unmissable: even if she hasn\u2019t made her first international blitz\u2013\u2013yet\u2013\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/chanel-beauty-palette-essentielle\">Chanel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/vivienne-westwood-andreas-kronthaler-for-vivienne-westwood-ss-2019\/1090764\">Vivienne Westwood<\/a> and Herm\u00e8s ad bookings are already buoying up the Botticellian beauty beyond humble beginnings. <\/p>\n<p>It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/work\/herms-twilly-dhermes-fw-18\/1090767\">Twilly d\u2019Herm\u00e8s campaign<\/a> photographed by Liz Collins that confirmed Smilenko was a luxury brand\u2019s dream girl, but her career started with the Parisian brand Soeur, working with Domitile Brion for 6 years since the age of 10. \u201cShe found it very interesting to make her brand grow with a girl growing in size and age,\u201d she explained, timelining her start, \u201cI always wanted to become a model and when I was 14 I called <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/agency\/IMG-Paris\">IMG<\/a>. They signed me in when I turned 16.\u201d Herm\u00e8s was quick to christen the equestrian as a favorite: \u201cI attended the casting for the perfume \u201cTwilly d\u2019Herm\u00e8s\u201d. I had to dance for the casting so I decided to give everything!\u201d Ivanka told us over email, continuing, \u201cI chose the song Footloose hahaha. My parents burst out laughing when I told them about my choice (it became hard convincing myself I was going to be confirmed!). Competing in riding events herself, she\u2019s a natural choice for a French brand that has a line dedicated to riders and sponsors a lavish show jumping event at the Grand Palais called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sauthermes.com\/en\/\">Saut Herm\u00e8s<\/a>. This year will be the annual event\u2019s tenth. \u201cI have gone to Saut Herm\u00e8s every year since the first one. I admire the great champions and love to spend time there. It\u2019s a competition of beauty, mixing excellence and Parisian life; it represents all my values. I was lucky this year to be invited to ride inside the Grand Palais to try the new saddle. What a wonderful opportunity!\u201d She describes riding as \u201cthe story of my life\u201d breaking into rhapsodic detail, \u201cRiding is sincerity, we have to focus to perform. It is excellence, the power of two lives and bodies working together, the story of sharing and complicity.\u201d To be clear, this is not going horseback on the beach on vacation. Ivanka explained more, \u201cJumping is a technical discipline that might look powerful, but in reality, it is very delicate. It requires technique, concentration and years of work before reaching the podium. Competition gives me the feeling of being free and of surpassing myself.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg2\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/36761369_244159282854413_967119179272421376_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/36761369_244159282854413_967119179272421376_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/36761369_244159282854413_967119179272421376_n-512x640.jpg 512w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/36761369_244159282854413_967119179272421376_n-1024x1280.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once we had the model speaking on matters of horses, it was difficult to shift the subject back to her burgeoning modeling career. Her most recent accomplishment is also one of her favorite experiences so far\u2013\u2013that is, being photographed by Juergen Teller on a roof backdropped by the Eiffel Tower for Vivienne Westwood. Without jinxing anything Ivanka\u2019s modeling to-do lists includes Vogue covers and and a pair of Angel wings. If she is as competitive as she is on the back of a horse, then soon all the industry might be saying Vive la Ivanka! <\/p>\n<p><em>Ivanka&#8217;s Instagram is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ivankasmilenko\/\">@ivankasmilenko<\/a>. Visit her <a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/models\/ivanka-smilenko\">profile<\/a> and click or tap the heart icon <i class=\"fa fa-heart-o\"><\/i> to favorite Ivanka and keep track of her work. <\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimg\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/5.-AKVW_SS19_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2266\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/5.-AKVW_SS19_02.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/5.-AKVW_SS19_02-424x640.jpg 424w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/oftheminute\/images\/2019\/04\/5.-AKVW_SS19_02-847x1280.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--pp-thumb-start--><!--PictPress found no dir \/2019\/04\/119732--><!--pp-thumb-end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French model, a Herm\u00e8s favorite, might just be the total package <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":119752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10414,2],"tags":[2779,12053],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119732"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119795,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119732\/revisions\/119795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/models.com\/oftheminute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}