Alesya

DJ, producer, painter and model

Photographer: Anya Khrystich

Tell us about your education. My first education was in Tour Management and Tourism because I loved history and travelling. My second masters degree is in sociology. I love people and try to understand their minds.

What came first? Modeling or deejaying? First came modeling but for a short time only. I was in a relationship and my ex-boyfriend was too nervous about. I left modeling and started to search myself in other field and I found myself in music. After we broke up I started modeling once again.

Tell me please how you begin with music and deejaying? I had passion for music since childhood and I even played piano. When I was 18 years old, I visited parties and I saw DJs. I wanted to try deejaying but felt shy and I was thinking It's not for me. After few years of searching myself I finally tried it and was very happy. It started as a hobby but after few months I got a good job as a DJ and I shifted completely to music.

What were some of the main challenges and goals when starting out as a DJ and how have they changed over time? In the beginning I didn't imagine myself that I would play at music festivals and on big stages abroad on the best clubs and restaurants. My goal was very simple. I imagined myself as a cool DJ who plays techno at my favourite club in Kiev. Because I loved this kind of music and I was too young and emotional, I got in a fight with some guy, who was in good relationship with owner of that club and I got into problems of course. I couldn't even visit that place and I was crying long time and then my friend told me why don't you come to work in another country. Same day I got offer to work aboard in very fashionable places in Asia and in Qatar. I worked with famous stars on one stage as a INNA, TYGA, Jax Jones, David Vandetta, Nicola Fasano, Jeremiah, Artbat, Pete Oak, and Tom Boxer. I started to grow up in music and played new genres. I eventually started to explore myself and believe that a positive attitude towards failure opens the way to true happiness. Nowadays, I'm thankful to God for bringing me on a new level of my life with huge goals.

Being a female deejay, how it looks like? I think it's look sexy, isn't? I'm always in attention. People see me on stage, they expect not only beautiful sexy girl but also great music. It makes them high and happy. It's a creative job. I always have to create new impressive ideas and recording new DJ mixes, produce new tracks, searching for new music, be in trend, look stunning, care about my costume and body. As I have noticed you are travelling a lot? Yes, a lot! It's style of life when you always need to move. Travelling new places and meeting new people.

Your coolest place where you worked? At X lounge, Wahm, Play Boy club, Decadance House, Boudoir, and music festivals. I love them.

Describe me your feelings when you play music? Em. I completely give myself to this creative process. I see people, I feel them and the music and create mood for them as I feel it and imagine it. When I see them happy and feel high.

What style of music do you play? I play many different genres: House music (deep house, tech house, progressive house ), Commercial music, R&B and reggaton, trance, and bollywood.

Yours favourite musicians and songs? Mostly It depends on mood. If today I want to hear commercial music, reggaton and R&B then It's Maluma, Bad Bunny, JLo, Madonna. From Tech house Solomun, Peggy Gou, Armen Miran. Psytrance - Belic Boom, and Astrix, Blastoyz.

Tell us about your modelling experience? Beauty is main and bigger part of my soul. For me beauty is love and feelings. Modeling is one of the way where I can show it. I worked with a lot of designers in Qatar, India, and Ukraine. Fashion shows, Print shoots, Photoshoots, Exhibitions , Runways, and Movie.

Which is your favourite modelling project? One of my favourite projects happened last year in Doha. I was one of the faces who presented new plane by Qatar Airway Executive Jet and took part in international Fashion Day. We had runway inside the plane in clothes by haute couture and without shoes. I remember they put a big glass crown full of diamonds inside on my head. That was really unique crown and impressive show with fashion blogger from New York, Milan, Paris, and Tokyo. I was really impressed with that magical day!

We know that you are also an artist? How and when did the interest in art develop? Art is inside my blood. From childhood I liked painting. specially portraits. During school time, my friends would ask me to paint them and they paid for that and it was my first money earning opportunity.

What materials do you use? I mainly used acrylic colors, pencils, and cosmetics sometimes.

How would you best describe your type of art? I call it Therapy. It's awesome when you can put on paper your ideas or your mood. For me, it's kind of a journey into myself. When I make art, I'm completely immersed into it.

What message do you like to convey through your art? A Message? Be brave to be yourself. Honest, feel love and share positivity.

What is your future goal ALESYA? Create more and more in everything that I love, music, pictures, ideas of art photo-shooting. Maybe I will get into interior designing also.

Your motto in life? whatever happens, will pass. Have a positive attitude towards failures. They open the ways to true happiness and happiness is the key to open the heart and love. Be honest, brave, and don't think about the past. Move towards the future to your victory. But don't forget about today, stay in the presence.

Do you have for me and for readers any exclusive news at this moment? Of course! News: soon I will making my fans happy with my new exclusive photos and soundtracks. Follow and see updates on my Instagram.

Your message for CiiN magazine I wish the best of luck to all of you guys! You have a warm and friendly team and you guys are doing a creative and awesome job! keep it up!

Photographer: Anya Khrystich

THE TEAM: Photographer: Umut Kiran (@umutphotography) Model: Janine Görn (@metropolitangirl) Make-Up Artist: Loana (@loana.mua)

MKS Jewellery stunning ‘Keepsakes’ Collection

MKS Jewellery continues to celebrate its love for selfexpression and the value of sharing sentiment with the launch of the ‘Keepsakes’ collection. The all-new capsule is comprised of precious 18 karat gold charms and charm bases, including dainty necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings.

Drawing inspiration from the sentiment and meaning inherited through the tales recounted and photographs preserved by generations before ours, each charm in the collection is a symbolic piece of our valuable heritage. Be it a reminder of a person, a moment, a story or the most important things in life, the charms are a collection of memories that celebrate the valuable keepsakes we have collected throughout our time.

“While I was discovering the stories of my great grandfathers, Baba Zayed and Al Otaiba, I came across a heritage so rich in photographs, values and traditions. The muses of this collection come from these photographs and the charms are a celebration of these stories; small trinkets that become treasures, which in turn become legacy and the wealth that our ancestors lovingly passed to us - this is what I wish to give forward to the next generations too” - HRH Sheikha Mariam bint Khalifa bin Saif al Nahyan.

Carrying the precious charms are necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings made using a hand twisted rope design, a thoughtful detail that is meant to symbolically connect the past to the present and to the future in order to further the connection to ancestry. This handmade rope detail is amoung some of the storyline extensions from Al Otaiba which are found within the ‘Keepsakes’ collection, like ‘Little Lulu’s’ which is an extension of the much-loved ‘Lulu Hearts’ and ‘Sea Signs’, pieces adorned in sea and sunset shades of enamel and hand twisted rope details.

MKS Jewellery makes it their mission to give back, which is why they have yet again partnered with Ataya, a charity exhibition organized by Emirates Red Crescent, and are allocating donations to improve the health of millions of children with congenital disorders. The ‘Keepsakes’ collection will be making its official debut at the event which takes place from March 1st to 5th, 2020 in Abu Dhabi.

Also premiering at Ataya are charity charm bracelets, symbolic 18 karat gold charms, that have been individually knotted into silk bracelets by the women and children at the UAE-Jordan run Mrajeeb Al Fhood Refugee Camp. Refugees will choose a charm and go into a story telling workshop with Afra Atiq, an award-winning spoken word artist, where they will be writing a story that they relate the charm to. “Everyone has a voice, one that is powerful and has the capacity to resonate. I hope that through these workshops we can harness that power through poetry and story telling, and give wings to words through self expression and art” – Afra Atiq.

Lana Albeik, a Syrian refugee herself, shot the collection campaign with MKS Jewellery to showcase these charms and speak about the cause, “being able to be heard and be part of this campaign is a privilege in itself that we hope will make even the smallest change in the lives of people who aren’t just numbers”.

The entire proceeds from the sale of the bracelets will be donated back to the refugee camp that made them, another way that MKS Jewellery is giving back to the community.

THE TEAM: Photographer: Mariia Chorman (@mary_chorman_photo) Model: Lisa (@lizzy_rybalko)

ICONIC RINGS FROM NINA RUNSDORF'S ALL THAT IS COLLECTION

Marking an evolution from her old mine diamond collection, Runsdorf created her first gold collection that is incredibly wearable for every day.

“I wanted to create something of meaning that could be worn every day with a modern yet old world feel.” – Nina Runsdorf

Summoning the spirituality and healing powers of gold and her love of old mine diamonds she created a collection of 15 pieces to enhance the energy of the wearer. “Gold amplifies positive feelings, creating a healing effect on the wearer––each piece therefore touches the senses.” Runsdorf decided to pair yellow gold against a darker outline of black rhodium on several modern cuts of diamonds.

Each diamond is encircled by white gold with a clean finish mounting. The collection is sculptural yet fluid, woven snake chains create a softness a while hinges produce subtle movement an effect evoking Runsdorf’s trademark Flip Ring.

THE TEAM: Producer: Diva Dubai (@divadubaimodels) Photographer: Anastasia Panjinskaya (@Anastasia_panjinskaya) Makeup Artist: Dubai Makeup Artist (@Nailaby_makeup_artist) Fashion Designer: Amato Couture By Furne One (@furneamato)

AKILLIS CAPTURE ME IN MOTION COLLECTION AKILLIS is reinventing an instinctive French jewellery with Capture In Motion, a new collection of moving rings for men & women

Like a precious revolution, two components go round in an endless sensory and addictive game. An irrepressible desire to rotate the piece under the fingers, the tactile pleasure of its furrowed design, transform the ring into a sensual and absorbing plaything. AKILLIS continues to chart its course with a vital and witty spark, once again introducing a Rock spirit into modern jewelry.

Black, white, pink: the primary colors of Capture In Motion.

This thoroughly graphic piece consists of two chiseled bands that revolve separately and distinctly on their axis, each incorporating the sharp and asymmetrical triangles that have become a signature feature of the brand. They seem to open like formidable jaws, revealing a surface of glistening gold, matte black titanium or sparkling diamonds. Available in eight models - four gold and titanium, four gold with diamonds - Capture In Motion rings exhibit a striking contrast between matter and color. The white or pink gold sets off the black titanium and the white gold veneered in DLC – Diamond Like Carbon – an inalterable coating that combines the properties of carbon graphite and diamonds. In stone-set pieces, the triangles shimmer with the light of 96 black or white diamonds. Finally, the model fully-set with 120 diamonds exhibits sober opulence with its black and white design. This distinctively rock touch, at the same time, pure and creative, brings out the wearer’s assertive persona.

The polished gold body of the ring gleams with the intense glow of black diamonds or the lively glint of white diamonds.

Mix & Match

A future icon of the brand, this highly distinctive collection offers a multitude of aesthetic possibilities: the rings can be worn together in any number of combinations. A self-indulgent treat or a gift denoting short-lived passion and taken back tomorrow, an edgy accessory to be collected, exchanged and exhibited in all its versatility: these precious rings remain objects of whimsy and desire. A promise of love, for now or forever.