Palvin has chosen Barbie as the international ambassador for Longines!
Ambassador of Elegance – this is the title Barbara Palvin can wear since Longines asked her to represent the brand at its high-profile events and campaigns. Barbi can be both casual and classy, while being as direct as she is inaccessible. She loves football, music and her teddy bear, Gruby.
Barbara Palvin's career started in a legendary way. She was discovered at the age of 13 by Balázs Méhész, who was scouting talent for ICON Model Management. At that time, the little girl had not yet dreamed of a modeling career, she had not attended photo shoots or auditions. She was walking with her mother in Budapest when the agency representative simply approached them. After the test photo shoot, however, everything changed.
That same year, her material was published in Spur Magazine. Since then, we have seen her on the covers of Vogue, Marie Claire, Glamour, Elle, and GQ. She made her runway debut in 2010, during Milan Fashion Week, where she presented the Prada collection.
In 2016, the American sports magazine Sports Illustrated named Barbara its Discover of the Year, and three years later she became a Victoria's Secret Angel. Models.com ranks her 14th on its much-talked about Money List and Social List, and has honored her with the most coveted awards in the industry. She was the winner of Glamour Women of the Year in the Best Model category in 2011, 2012, and 2013. She has also won the Fashion Awards twice, in 2011 and 2012. She was honored as International Model of the Year at the Elle Style Awards in 2021, and in the same year she was named Model of the Year by Spanish GQ.
Barbara is also well-known for her charitable work, and it is particularly important to her to raise awareness of the need for water points and purification systems in water-scarce regions of the world. When her busy schedule allows her some free time, Barbara travels home to Budapest to spend time with her family. Her teddy bear, Gruby, always accompanies her on her travels.
She loves fishing, and having spent most of her childhood in the countryside with her grandparents, she tries to stay close to nature. As a counterpoint to her busy life on the world's most prestigious catwalks, Barbara is an avid and fast reader, almost devouring books. She loves to cook, watch football matches, and is known among her friends and family as an animal lover.
In addition to modeling, Barbara has recently been interested in acting. She has appeared on the big screen in the film Hercules (2014) alongside Dwayne Johnson, in the romantic adventure film Tyger Tyger (2019), and most recently in the 2023 sci-fi horror film Serpentine as Eve.
