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Alessandra Ambrosio
Born April 11 , 1981.She is one of the faces of Guess, Next (UK) and Victoria's Secret .
The 5 ft 9 in, light brown-haired Ambrosio accumulated quite a career in the late 1990's into the next century. Ambrosio was born in Erexim, a small town in the south. As an early teen, she enrolled in a modeling class and subsequently was entered in the Elite modeling agency 's 1996 Look of the Year competition. Though she did not win, she was offered an Elite contract one year after.
HHer first modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian Marie Claire , and Ambrosio followed with other editorial work, but it was not long after that the Marcianos at Guess signed Ambrosio for their fall Millennium campaign in 2000. Her lucrative print career began with being a Guess? Girl and continued with deals with Revlon and Victoria's Secret. Ambrosio walked the VS runway for the first time in 2000 and continued to be a fixture in subsequent shows. Ambrosio was also picked to be the spokesmodel for the 2004 Pink line by Victoria's Secret.
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Suzanna Andén
Born
February 13th , 1978 , Stockholm Suzanna is a Swedish model , actress, occasional host and producer. She began modeling at the age of ten, and joined Elite Model Management when she was fifteen. She has been on the cover of many fashion magazines including Vogue, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitian and ELLE . She's been in fashion campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein , BCBG and Gucci . Anden has also been in the Victoria's Secret catalog many times. She is currently seen as the face for Giorgio Armani 's new perfume Armani Code for women edP .
She was a judge in the Miss Universe pageant in 2001 . She is the host of the Swedish section of Scandinavia's Next Top Model which premiered February 16th , 2005 . Anden
has appeared in a handful of films and even produced
2003 's Buffoon.
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May Andersen
Born Lykke May Andersen on June 19 , 1982 in Copenhagen , Denmark. May is a Danish supermodel . She is most known for her work on Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated Magazine's Swimsuit Issue .
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Devon Aoki
Devon Edwenna Aoki born August 10 , 1982 is an American supermodel and actress .
Aoki was born in New York City . Her Japanese father, Rocky Aoki , a former Olympic wrestler , is the owner of the Benihana restaurant chain. Her mother, Pamela Hilburger, is a jewelry designer of English and German heritage.
She has appeared in the movies 2 Fast 2 Furious , D.E.B.S., and Sin City, as well as in numerous magazines. She has modelled for the fashion houses Lancôme, Chanel, and Versace. Aoki is 5 ft 6 in, an almost unheard of height for runway models, who are usually over 5 ft 8 in. She is known as the world's shortest supermodel.
Earlier in her career Aoki made a cameo appearance in Duran Duran 's music video "Electric Barbarella", later Aoki made a cameo appearance in Ludacris 's music video " Act a Fool ", which was featured on the soundtrack for the film 2 Fast 2 Furious which both Ludacris and Aoki appeared in.
She did not have her license prior to filming 2 Fast 2 Furious , she had to learn while filming.
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Tyra Banks
Tyra Lynne Banks born December 4 , 1973 is an American supermodel, author, actor, and talk show host. Banks is widely-recognized as one of the most famous models in the world and she is part of a small group of supermodels of known African descent. Banks is currently ranked as the fourth highest earning supermodel.
In 1991 , Banks was about to begin her freshman year at Loyola Marymount University when Elite gave the 17-year-old her first modeling job. Prior to this entry into the fashion world, Banks had been rejected several times for modeling assignments. In fact, she states that she did not deem her first job to be the start of a long career in fashion: "Consequently, instead of heading to university, Banks went to Paris for fashion shows and other works produced by high-fashion designers such as Versace, Yves Saint-Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana . This is where her work became internationally renowned.
Banks' career took off when she made the move from high-fashion to a commercial market. She was the first African-American to be featured on the covers of GQ, Sports Illustrated 's swimsuit issue , but is most famous for her work as a Victoria's Secret model. In 1997 she won the prestigious Michael Award for Supermodel of the Year. Banks has done runway shows in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, London and the U.S. She has been featured in a variety of magazines, commercials, and billboards. Her modeling credits include runway and/or print work for CoverGirl, Swatch, Pepsi, Nike, XOXO, LensCrafters, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Ralph Lauren, McDonald's, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Escada, Anna Sui, Liz Claiborne and Richard Tyler. Banks has graced international fashion magazines, including the covers of Vogue , ELLE , Amica, ELLEgirl , L'Officiel , Harper's Bazaar , Photo , Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated .
In a time when waif fashion models were in prominence, Banks stood out with a more voluptuous physique at 5ft 9in tall and reported measurements of 34-23-35. Banks had to work hard to persuade fashion designers that her physique was well-suited to the catwalk and ultimately walked for the best haute couture designers all over the world. Later on in her career, Banks decided that the world of high-fashion was no longer something she wished to pursue and so began seeking work in the commercial side of fashion.
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Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen born July 20 , 1980. She is most noted for being one of the original Victoria's Secret Angels and one of the world's premiere high-fashion models.
An often told story of Bündchen's "discovery" is a schoolgirl incident where an agent discovered the bronze-haired beauty while eating a Big Mac at a local McDonald's In an interview, Bündchen remarked that she originally did not know what a model was, thinking it was something akin to being a hooker .
In 1993, a 13-year-old Bündchen joined the Dilson Stein's mannequin course to correct her posture, with her sisters Patrícia and Gabriela, because her mother insisted. The course was designed for teenagers aspiring to become models. In May 1994, Stein took 50 girls to São Paulo to give them an opportunity to walk in a big city and to be evaluated by Brazilian Elite agents. On August 20, 1993, while Bündchen was playing volleyball for Sogipa, in Porto Alegre, Elite "kidnapped" her and took her to a contest. She came in second in the national Elite Look of the Year contest. As a teen, Bündchen moved to New York City to begin her runway debut at Fashion Week. After her debut in NYC, she was immediately embraced by the fashion world.
Bündchen has since done ads and runway shows for many of the most prestigious fashion houses including Valentino, Zara, Bulgari, Chloé, Celine, Versace, Christian Dior, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Victoria's Secret, Dolce & Gabbana, and Louis Vuitton. She endorses several Brazilian brands, notably Vivo, a cellular service company, and the Brazilian subsidiary of C&A and she also has her own line of shoes called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen. She has appeared on the covers of many high-profile magazines including Allure, Marie Claire, Vogue, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Arena, Time, i-D, The Face, Forbes, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Her curvaceous figure prompted Vogue to refer to her body of work as the "return of the sexy model," since she seems to have marked the end of a trend of "waif" models such as Kate Moss. Bündchen has multi-million contracts with Victoria's Secret, Ebel, and St. John . In 2006 alone she had 20 contracts and earned $30 million. She is rumored to be the face of an advertising campaign for Apple Computer, however, this has yet to be confirmed.
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Naomi Campbell
Born May 22, 1970, is a British supermodel, actress, singer, and author.
Aged 15 and while still a student of the Italia Conti Stage School, Campbell was spotted by Beth Boldt, former head of Synchro models agency, window-shopping in Covent Garden. In April 1986, she made the cover of Elle, when another black model had to cancel the job. By August 1988, she had graced the cover of French Vogue as the publication's first black cover girl and completed campaigns for Ralph Lauren and Francois Nars .
Her modelling career started as a catwalk model, but she was quickly picked up for various high profile advert campaigns for Lee Jeans and Olympus Corporation , which broke her in to America. The highpoint of her career was in the the early 90 's when she was part of the two major supermodelling powerhouses, the Big Six and the Trinity , (with Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington ).
She has walked for many fashion designers, including Gianni Versace and Valentino . Campbell famously tumbled over on the catwalk at Vivienne Westwood 's Anglomania fashion show in 1994 . Campbell was the first black model to appear on the cover of Time magazine and French and British Vogue . She has alos appeared on the covers of Harper's Bazaar and Elle magazine.She posed nude for Playboy magazine and for a series of lesbian-erotic photos with Madonna in the latter's book Sex.
http://www.naomicampbell.com
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Esther Caņadas
Born on March 1 , 1977 in
Alicante , Costa Blanca, is a Spanish actress and
supermodel .
Esther signed her first contract with the Take 2
Agency after winning a local competition for a teen
magazine. She represented her country in a model search
and was sent to South Africa . She then moved to
Barcelona on her own to begin working. When she started
modeling, she felt that it was nothing more than a job
and something new to try, but she eventually realized
that it was what she really wanted to do.
She moved to New York in 1996 , where it took only
two days for her to get booked by twenty designers. Her
modeling career took off from then on. The various
advertisements she has appeared in include: Atelier
Versace, J. Crew, Mossimo, Saks Fifth Avenue, and
Victoria's Secret . She is probably most known, however,
for her appearances in DKNY ads. She has graced the
cover of ELLE Spain, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire Italy,
Mondo Uomo, as well as Vogue Spain, all in 1997 .
Esther has walked down the catwalk at many designer
fashion shows, including shows for Calvin Klein, D&G,
DKNY, Oscar de la Renta, Richard Tyler, Todd Oldham,
Giorgio Armani, Valentino, Versace, and Givenchy, just
to name a few.
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Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta, born May 11, 1978 in Pont-Audemer, France, is a French supermodel and actress. Laetitia's mother, Line Blin, is from Normandy. Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica.
Time Magazine once named her one of the top ten most influential people of the year .
Casta's career reportedly began when she was discovered by a photographer during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica , at age 15. Casta is a supermodel and the official face of L'Oréal . She has graced the covers of Victoria's Secret and featured in Guess Jeans campaigns. She has also appeared in three consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions, Rolling Stone, Pirelli Tires Calendar, L'Oreal promotions, Victoria's Secret, as well as hundreds of magazine covers. She also had a close relationship with designer Yves St. Laurent, whose outfits she would regularly wear at public appearances.
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Karen Elson
Born 14 January 1979 in Bolton, England. Her trademarks are her red hair and her eyebrows, which photographer Steven Meisel persuaded her to shave off.
She has walked the runways of many top fashion designers including Marc Jacobs (which she did pregnant), Chanel and Roberto Cavalli. She has appeared in international campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton and Jean Paul Gaultier.
In 2005, Elson won a British Fashion Award for Best Model, over Lily Donaldson and Danny Beauchamp.
Karen is currently a creative director and performer with the politically minded cabaret troupe The Citizens Band and has performed with them at various night life hotspots as well as at downtown power-house gallery Deitch Projects
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Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana, born on July 4, 1983 in Curitiba, Brazil.
In 1996, she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look Contest when she was just 13. She moved from Brazil to Milan in 1997 to start her modelling career. In 1999, at the age of 16, she appeared in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue. This created a huge controversy as Victoria's Secret had earlier stated that its policy was not to sign models younger than 21 years. However, the publicity generated by this controversy proved beneficial to Isabeli and she quickly rose to fame. Following the Victoria's Secret shoot, she was signed by the likes of Versace, Ralph Lauren and Valentino. She has modelled for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Marie Claire, ELLE and Vogue.
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