Snejana Onopka

Snejana Onopka is, to me, one of the defining faces of late-2000s high fashion. Plucked from Severodonetsk in eastern Ukraine and almost instantly shot by Steven Meisel for Prada and two Vogue Italia covers, she embodied that era's appetite for sharp bones and cool, near-blank expressions. Her ascent was vertiginous, the kind of overnight transformation the industry rarely repeats. There is added poignancy now in seeing her hometown's name, a region scarred by war. I think of her as a model who captured a precise moment in style and then let it speak for itself, which is its own quiet achievement.

Name (English)

Snejana Onopka

Name (Japanese)

スネジャナ・オノプカ

Reading

すねじゃな・おのぷか

Born

December 15, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Siverskodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Height

175 cm

Occupation

model

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/snejanaonopka15/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%8E%E3%83%97%E3%82%AB

Tags

• Luhansk Oblast
• model

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.