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 socialites. While the News of the World labelled their scoop "The story he tried to banski" (geddit?), Vogue dubbed its story "The Ladies of Londongrad".
Dasha (as she is known in Vogue-ish circles) appears shy and casual in understated jeans and a T-shirt, smiling sweetly; yet on the cover of the NoW, she wears a bizarre dress, seemingly made of knotted red bandanas, which exposes triangles of flesh and her belly-button; suddenly she is every inch the brazen Russian arriviste.
The Vogue article, which mentions that the tabloids tend to stereotype the average Russian male as "a squillionaire living in Chelski, probably on the run from a maximum security facility", does not refer to Dasha's father Alexander, a "playboy", according to the NoW, who now lives next door to his lovely daughter off Kensington Church
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Street. He won his British citizenship before being arrested on an arms smuggling charge for which he was held for six months in a Turin jail in 2001. He was later cleared.
Vogue describes Dasha's career as "fabulously diverse" - a term I must remember for my next job interview - for she is both studying homeopathy and launching her own label at Fred Segal in Hollywood. How she fits her friendship with Roman in to her busy schedule is a marvel.
Where the two stories meet is in Dasha's extravagant taste for jetsetting. In the News of the World, Daria "has been spotted with the tycoon in locations around the world". Which throws a new light on what Vogue refers to as "her frequent peregrinations" to New York, Paris, Belgium, and Moscow.
Young, adorable and a little kooky in her style, Dasha is a welcome addition to London's tired cast of It girls. 
FIRST POSTED OCTOBER 9, 2006
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