We’ve been working regularly with Alya since she was 18 (back in 2005) but we just can’t stop because she keeps looking better and better.

Born in Ukraine during the Russia occupation, she's the daughter of a computer engineer and a teacher of rhetoric. Occasionally her mother took her on trips out of the country, and it was this experience that enabled her future in fashion. Sewing supplies were hard to come by prior to independence, but with what she acquired abroad, she was able to start making her own clothes and studying design at university. Fast forward a few years and she’s now got her own brand of unique swimwear.

With a background in photographry and self-portraiture, she loves to travel, model, and run her bathing suit business. In short, Alya - one of the great Hegre veterans - is both beautiful and ambitious, and that's a combination that can't be beat.