Anina (model)

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This article is about the fashion model. For the Romanian city, see Anina.

Anina is an American-born Paris-based international fashion model, whose life as a blogger and tech nerd with a web presence has had international coverage.[1]

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[edit] Career

[edit] Modelling

Anina began modelling in New York city when a stylist invited her to participate in a photo shoot. This led to further work, and she then engaged an agent.

Anina has since modelled for many designers, including:

For haute couture:

  • Turkish designer Yıldırım Mayruk

[edit] Designing clothes

Anina has her own line of Anime-inspired clothes, "aninaMINEme".[2]

[edit] Technology

Anina's early adoption of internet and communications technology was by necessity. She was away from her home base, and her agents, and needed to communicate. She discovered, or made, ways for WAP to work for her.

[edit] Blogging

Anina has used Nokia's Lifeblog. She also regularly posts to her own web site, www.anina.net[1].

Anina presented 360Fashion at the French blogging conference, Les Blogs 2.0, in Paris in 2005 and in 2006.[3]; She has spoken at LIFT conference, Digital Lifestyle Day, Leweb3 in 2006, and addressed the world congress at 3GSM together with Adobe Corporation. She has spoken at New York University to female photographers, and presented mobile reporting at the China University of Communication in Beijing. Anina has been written about in magazines such as Paris Match, Stuff, Mobiles, German Amica, Elle, and more.

[edit] 360Fashion

360Fashion began as a show of fashion blogs by high-level fashion professionals, with help from Nokia in 2004, and launched during fashion week October 2005 with an exhibition, cocktail, and conference sponsored by Nokia. 360Fashion is a convergence media platform (blogs, mobile reader, web tv, mobile tv, IPTV, and broadcast on skynet channel 218). anina.net is dedicated to building a bridge between fashion and technology by using innovative platforms to help designers, brands, and professionals broadcast globally to a large audience, independent of device. 360Fashion is a network of high-level fashion professionals using the latest web 2.0 and mobile technology and are pioneers in real-time reporting. [2] [3] anina.net is the founder of the 360Fashion Network.

[edit] NerdTV

Anina was interviewed for NerdTV episode #9 (air date: 9 November 2005) by Robert X. Cringely (aka Mark Stephens). It was in this interview that she gave her age as 23 (in late 2005).[4]

[edit] Film

Anina has been featured in a movie by director Claudio Rocchi, Pedra Mendalza.

[edit] Other activities

Anina lists her activities as: yoga, snowboarding, travel, art, cinema, music, hand-coding web pages, and computer programming.

She speaks 5 languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, (and is learning Chinese.)[5]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lewis, C; about.com Anina: A Model Blogger... Techno Icon, accessed 5 May 2007
  2. ^ Lewis, C; about.com Anina: A Model Blogger... Techno Icon, accessed 5 May 2007
  3. ^ Andrews, R; Wired Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs, accessed 5 May 2007
  4. ^ NerdTV #9: Anina - transcript, accessed 5 May 2007
  5. ^ Anina's Press Zone accessed 5 May 2007