Enikő Mihalik
Encyclopedia
Enikő Mihalik is a Hungarian
model
who rose to prominence after placing 4th in the Elite Model Look
2002 and is known for her work with Dutch photography
team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
.
, Hungary
, the capital of the Hungarian Bekes County. When she was young, her classmates often teased her about her thin physique, some claiming it was caused by illness. When she was 15, an agent discovered her in a shopping mall. In 2002, she entered into the Hungarian Elite Model Look and won.
With her win, she moved on to the international level of the competition, held in Tunis
, Tunisia
. She placed 4th, losing to Ana Mihajlovic
of Yugoslavia
. Her career started on the runway. She debuted at the Chanel
haute couture
show JUL 2006. She walked for only a few designers each season thereafter, but in the S/S 09 shows, she got her big break. She walked for over 50 designers internationally, including Givenchy
, Blumarine, Moschino
, Diane von Furstenberg
, and Versace
. Mihalik was one of the fresh faces to land in one of the fourteen covers of V magazine
fall 2008 issue; the other fresh faces were Anna Selezneva
, and Abbey Lee Kershaw. Each cover boasts a head shot of a famous model, either from the new crop of leading models (Agyness Deyn
, Lara Stone
, Natasha Poly
, Anja Rubik
, Daria Werbowy
etc.) or the supermodel
era (Christy Turlington
, Naomi Campbell
, Eva Herzigova
), it was lensed by duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
Her campaign work includes Cesare Paciotti
, Gucci
, Kenzo
, MaxMara, Samsonite
by Viktor & Rolf
, and Barneys New York
. She has also worked with Retro and Paola Frani.
Her face is also seen regularly in magazines, occasionally on covers. She has graced the cover of top fashion magazines i-D
, V
, Self Service, and most recently Vogue Japan
and Vogue Italia Beauty
. Her face is also seen in the pages of Vogue
and Numero
.
Mihalik is currently ranked No. 9 on the Models.com Top 50-Women List.
She walked in the 2009 Victoria's Secret
Fashion Show in New York City. Mihalik's looks have been compared to Daria Werbowy
's because of her eyes.
She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar
photographed by Terry Richardson
in Bahia, Brazil.
. She loves board games, cartoons, and Hungarian food, sushi, and bagels. She sleeps with a teddy bear named Bubu and wears slipper socks. When Mihalik is not modeling, her typical day involves shopping in the morning and partying in New York's 1 Oak at night
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
who rose to prominence after placing 4th in the Elite Model Look
Elite Model Look
Elite Model Look is a yearly fashion modeling event held by Elite Model Management, an international model management group. It is the premiere and most prestigious modeling contest used to discover and launch fashion models in the international fashion marketplace...
2002 and is known for her work with Dutch photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin are a Dutch fashion photographer duo, well known for their work for fashion magazines, advertising campaigns, and for their independent art work.-Biography:Vinoodh Matadin studied fashion design in Amsterdam between 1981 and 1985, and started...
.
Career
Enikő was born in BékéscsabaBékéscsaba
Békéscsaba is a city in Southeast Hungary, the capital of the county Békés.- Geography :According to the 2001 census, the city has a total area of .- Name :...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, the capital of the Hungarian Bekes County. When she was young, her classmates often teased her about her thin physique, some claiming it was caused by illness. When she was 15, an agent discovered her in a shopping mall. In 2002, she entered into the Hungarian Elite Model Look and won.
With her win, she moved on to the international level of the competition, held in Tunis
Tunis
Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....
, Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
. She placed 4th, losing to Ana Mihajlovic
Ana Mihajlovic
Ana Mihajlović is a Serbian fashion model. She is best known as the winner of the 2002 Elite Model Look She has walked the runway for Dolce & Gabbana, Balenciaga, Dries van Noten, Givenchy, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Miu Miu, Prada, Christian Dior and others.-External links:*...
of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
. Her career started on the runway. She debuted at the Chanel
Chanel
Chanel S.A. is a French fashion house founded by the couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, well established in haute couture, specializing in luxury goods . She gained the name "Coco" while maintaining a career as a singer at a café in France...
haute couture
Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...
show JUL 2006. She walked for only a few designers each season thereafter, but in the S/S 09 shows, she got her big break. She walked for over 50 designers internationally, including Givenchy
Givenchy
Givenchy is a French brand of clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics with Parfums Givenchy.The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter...
, Blumarine, Moschino
Moschino
Moschino is an Italian fashion design house and manufacturer of women's, men's and children's fashion.-History:The brand was originally created in 1983 by the late Franco Moschino...
, Diane von Furstenberg
Diane von Fürstenberg
Diane von Fürstenberg, formerly Princess Diane of Fürstenberg , is a Belgian-American fashion designer best known for her iconic wrap dress. She initially rose to prominence when she married into the German princely House of Fürstenberg, as the wife of Prince Egon of Fürstenberg...
, and Versace
Versace
Gianni Versace S.p.A. , usually referred to as Versace, is an Italian fashion label founded by Gianni Versace in 1978.The first Versace boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. Today, Versace is one of the world's leading international fashion houses...
. Mihalik was one of the fresh faces to land in one of the fourteen covers of V magazine
V (American magazine)
V magazine is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled VMAN started as an offshoot in 2003.-History:...
fall 2008 issue; the other fresh faces were Anna Selezneva
Anna Selezneva
-Early life:Selezneva was born July 29, 1990 in Moscow to a Russian father and an Armenian mother. She was discovered in 2007 at a McDonald's. Not long after, she negotiated an exclusive contract with Silent Models and landed in the couture capital, Paris, two months later.-Career:At the spring...
, and Abbey Lee Kershaw. Each cover boasts a head shot of a famous model, either from the new crop of leading models (Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn is an English fashion model, actress and singer.-Early life:Deyn is from Failsworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester...
, Lara Stone
Lara Stone
Lara Catherina Stone is a Dutch model.On February 19, 2010, she was tabulated as the world's number-one fashion model on the international modelling site models.com's Top 50 Models Women ranking, a position she maintains as of November 2011...
, Natasha Poly
Natasha Poly
Natalya Sergeyevna Polevshchikova , generally shortened to Natasha Poly , is a Russian model.-Early life and career start:...
, Anja Rubik
Anja Rubik
Anja Rubik is a Polish model.-Early life:Rubik and her family left Poland in 1988 and lived in Greece, Canada, and Umtata, South Africa. She used to study in a primary and secondary school in Częstochowa, Poland. Rubik was introduced to modeling while attending a British high school in Paris...
, Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy is a Ukrainian Canadian model. She is perhaps best known as a spokesperson for the French beauty brand Lancôme.-Personal life:...
etc.) or the supermodel
Supermodel
The term supermodel refers to a highly-paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling. The term became prominent in the popular culture of the 1980s. Supermodels usually work for top fashion designers and labels...
era (Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...
, Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is a British model. Scouted at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognisable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and early 1990s, and she was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion world...
, Eva Herzigova
Eva Herzigová
Eva Herzigová is a Czech model and actress.-Early life and career:Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia . She began her modeling career after winning a modeling beauty contest in Prague in 1989, at the age of sixteen. After arriving in Paris, her popularity increased...
), it was lensed by duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.
Her campaign work includes Cesare Paciotti
Cesare Paciotti
Cesare Paciotti is a shoe designer from Italy. His eponymous company makes luxury shoes and other leather goods, and is famous for its dagger logo.-Biography:...
, Gucci
Gucci
The House of Gucci, better known simply as Gucci , is an Italian fashion and leather goods label, part of the Gucci Group, which is owned by French company PPR...
, Kenzo
Kenzo
is a common masculine Japanese given name.-Possible writings:Kenzō can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:*賢三, "wise, three"*健三, "healthy, three"*謙三, "humble, three"*健想, "healthy, concept"*建造, "build, create"*健蔵, "healthy, storehouse"...
, MaxMara, Samsonite
Samsonite
The Samsonite Corporation makes luggage with its products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases. It was started in Denver, Colorado, USA in 1910 byJesse Shwayder, as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. Shwayder named one of his initial cases "Samson", after the...
by Viktor & Rolf
Viktor & Rolf
Viktor & Rolf is an Amsterdam-based fashion house. The company was founded in 1993 by designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren .- History :...
, and Barneys New York
Barneys New York
Barneys New York is a chain of luxury department stores headquartered in New York City. The chain owns large stores in New York City, Beverly Hills, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, and Scottsdale, and smaller stores in other locations across the United States.Brands sold include...
. She has also worked with Retro and Paola Frani.
Her face is also seen regularly in magazines, occasionally on covers. She has graced the cover of top fashion magazines i-D
I-D
i-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. i-D was founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. The first issue was published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on a typewriter...
, V
V (American magazine)
V magazine is an American fashion magazine published since 1999. The magazine is printed seasonally and highlights trends in fashion, film music and art. A men's fashion quarterly entitled VMAN started as an offshoot in 2003.-History:...
, Self Service, and most recently Vogue Japan
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
and Vogue Italia Beauty
Vogue Italia
Vogue Italia is the Italian edition of Vogue magazine. Owned by Condé Nast International, it is the least commercial of all editions of Vogue magazine and has been called the top fashion magazine in the world....
. Her face is also seen in the pages of Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
and Numero
Numero
Numero may refer to:*Number*Numero sign*Numéro, a French fashion magazine*Numéro#, an electro-pop duo from Montréal*The Numero Group, an American reissue record label...
.
Mihalik is currently ranked No. 9 on the Models.com Top 50-Women List.
She walked in the 2009 Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest segment of publicly-traded Limited Brands with sales of over US$5 billion and an operating income of $1 billion in 2006...
Fashion Show in New York City. Mihalik's looks have been compared to Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy is a Ukrainian Canadian model. She is perhaps best known as a spokesperson for the French beauty brand Lancôme.-Personal life:...
's because of her eyes.
She was chosen to be in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar
Pirelli Calendar
The Pirelli Calendar is a trade calendar published by the Pirelli company's UK subsidiary. It has become an annual publication that dates back to 1964....
photographed by Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson
Terrence "Terry" Richardson is an American fashion photographer.-Early life:Richardson was born in New York City, the son of Bob Richardson, a fashion photographer who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse...
in Bahia, Brazil.
Personal life
Mihalik has made friends with such other models as Iekeliene StangeIekeliene Stange
Iekeliene Stange ; born 27 July 1984 is a Dutch fashion model.Stange was scouted in Rotterdam during her college days. At the time, Stange was a multimedia design student....
. She loves board games, cartoons, and Hungarian food, sushi, and bagels. She sleeps with a teddy bear named Bubu and wears slipper socks. When Mihalik is not modeling, her typical day involves shopping in the morning and partying in New York's 1 Oak at night
External links
- Enikő Mihalik at Models.com
- Enikő Mihalik in the Fashion Model DirectoryFashion Model DirectoryThe Fashion Model Directory is an online database of information about female fashion models, modeling agencies, fashion labels, fashion magazines, fashion designers and fashion editorials. FMD is often denoted as the IMDb of the fashion industry, for being one of the world's largest fashion...
. - Enikő Mihalik at NYMAG.com
- Enikő Mihalik in Pirelli Calendrar 2010 sur Automoto.fr
- Enikő Mihalik at Divatportal.hu