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Beauty is Among Us

Maria Kozlova, 4th-year student of the Faculty of Economics, has won the competition ‘Miss D 2013’ at a pageant organized by the HSE Dubki Dorm in December.

The Miss D project ran for two months. Eight girls, who were selected through auditions, got down to serious preparations. In November and December they worked with professional photographers and a makeup artist, who taught the contestants how to act in front of the camera and chose the right pose, and experts from the Golden Models Agency gave them a course on stage movement (the art of modelling and how to walk on the catwalk).

In the finals each contestant put on a video presentation, a creative number, an improvisation, and paraded on the catwalk in casual style and in evening gowns. The creative numbers revealed all sorts of talents: from singing and dancing to stage monologues and Lady Gaga style performances.

Maria Kozlova, winner of the Miss D 2013 title, was awarded a diadem, a gift voucher from an evening and wedding gown boutique, and a free photo session in a professional studio. HSE students Vitalina Terebova and Miroslava Fedotova became the first and second ‘Vice Misses’. Anastasia Zlobina received a special prize from the Golden Models Agency.

The students who organized the competition – Ekaterina Shchegoleva, Roman Arkhipov, Daniil Maslennikov, Konstanting Makshanchikov, and Maria Babinskite – are planning to make it an annual event and hope that next time it will involve girls from all HSE dorms.

Roman Arkhipov, specially for the HSE News Service

December 19, 2013