BLOOM TWINS | It Takes Two
by Eliza Gold
It was a right-place right-time chance encounter in the small town of Brovary, Ukraine. A model scout approached a local teenage girl. Was she interested? No. But she mentioned that she had younger twin sisters, and they might be.
That’s how 23-year-old identical twins Sofia and Anna Kuprienko, a.k.a the Bloom Twins, came about their first photoshoot. Up until that point (they were 13-years-old at the time), life had been happy, but quintessentially small-town. It consisted of school, music, and borscht, with a heavy emphasis on music. From a young age, Sofia and Anna studied classical music every day. For Anna, it was piano, and for Sofia, it was flute and singing.
Modeling had never been a concept on their radar. Even after the shoot, the sisters also had no expectations that it would lead to anything. Anna assumed she would go to university to study mathematics, and Sofiia assumed she would follow in their mother’s footsteps and become a vocal teacher. But the pictures were posted on Facebook, the girls got invited to a casting, and they effortlessly impressed with their beautifully symmetrical faces and musical prowess; a combination only appreciated by the fact that there were two of them. Very quickly, relocations to London or Tokyo were proposed.
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“As soon as I heard about London and music, I thought, ‘screw university, let’s go’,” Anna says when I meet the girls at a coffee shop in Hollywood. Sofia also recalls that as a wistful child, she had filled many notebooks with collaged images of London. What had previously existed as a far-off dream for two self-proclaimed “small-town weirdos,” quickly became a reality.
Three months later, without any community or knowledge of the English language, Anna and Sofia moved to London. They got jobs at separate Starbucks, performed at open mics, continued modeling, and taught themselves English. To do so, they labeled everything in their shared apartment with post-it notes and enforced a rule that they could only communicate with each other in English. The commitment and determination acquired during their years of studying classical music now translated into an unrelenting persistence to achieve their goals.
Life in London was a far cry from their Ukranian roots. There was a spirit of boldness and a thrill of experimentation that Anna and Sofia immediately embraced. From music to fashion, their new home opened creative channels that set the twins on the wide-open artistic journey they are trailblazing today.
Indeed, Anna and Sofia are artists in the true sense. They live to create, they make to understand, and no matter the medium, the priority is to express themselves authentically.
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“People should find themselves and not choose the easy route,” Sofia says in reference to business advice and trends that aim to box artists into familiar, easy-to-market molds. Rebellion was a word that came up often in our conversation, therefore it’s no surprise that the twins coined their very own genre. They call their music Dark Pop.
I ask the twins if they ever get nervous to show the other one something they made. Whether it is a photograph Anna shot, an outfit Sofia put together, a chord progression Anna arranged, or lyrics that Sofia wrote, their response is an emphatic, in tandem, “no.”
Throughout the few hours I spend with the sisters, they don’t finish each other’s sentences often, but they definitely exude that innate twin telekinesis. They polish the facts in each other’s stories, Anna plays with the frays in Sofia’s jeans, and Sofia is quick to say she would be sleeping in Anna’s bed every night if she wasn’t living with her boyfriend.
It goes to show that sometimes two is better than one. The Bloom Twins’ entire career is supported by their twindom; the force that is created when they work together. In 2018, they starred in the horror film In2ruders, for which they wrote the title track, “Free Fall (FF),” they’ve performed on the TED stage, and on stages all around the world with the UNICEF Imagine campaign, and on tours with Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers, just to name a few.
So what does the future hold for the Bloom Twins? More of everything. Acting, modeling, music, and traveling. It’s a good time to be a small town weirdo.