Supermodels
Rosie Vela
Rosie Vela was born Roseanne Vela in Galveston Texas on November 11, 1954. Vela’s family later moved to Arkansas, where she attended the University of Arkansas. Whilst studying art and music, Vela also began modeling. She married the Arkansas born musician, Jimmy Roberts, but he died of cancer shortly after....
[Continue reading: Rosie Vela]
Maria Von Hartz
WEDDINGS; Maria von Hartz, Jay Shapiro Published: Sunday, March 17, 1996 Maria von Hartz, the daughter of Katherine and John von Hartz of New York, was married yesterday in Los Angeles to Jay Shapiro, a son of Rose Shapiro of Dominguez Hills, Calif., and Pete Shapiro of Los Angeles. The Rev. Gary Musgrove, a nondenominational...
[Continue reading: Maria Von Hartz]
Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born 18 June 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her. Rossellini is the daughter of Swedish actress Ingrid...
[Continue reading: Isabella Rossellini]
Talisa Soto
Talisa Soto (born March 27, 1967) is an American model and actress of Puerto Rican descent. Soto was born Miriam Soto in Brooklyn, New York, where her parents moved to from Puerto Rico in the 1950s. Her parents relocated to Northampton, Massachusetts when she was still just a child. Soto’s family was one...
[Continue reading: Talisa Soto]
Kim Alexis
Kim Alexis was born and reared in upstate New York. Always competitive, Kim was deeply involved in junior high and high school athletics, and is a marathoner. She originally had planned a career in pharmacology. At the age of 18, she was “discovered” by the Elite Talent Agency. She soon moved to New York...
[Continue reading: Kim Alexis]
Iman
Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid (born July 25, 1955), professionally known as Iman (which means “faith” in Arabic), is a Somali model, actress, and entrepreneur. She is married to David Bowie. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iman is the daughter of Marian and Mohamed Abdulmajid, a former Somali ambassador to Saudi...
[Continue reading: Iman]
Rosemary McGrotha
Rosemary McGrotha was born November 8, 1958 in Tallahassee, Florida. McGrotha was the antithesis of the conventional rail thin fashion model. A voluptuous brunette with piercing blue eyes, she broke the model stereotype and reigned in a category all her own, and was one of the most sought after models for more than...
[Continue reading: Rosemary McGrotha]
Renee Simonsen
Renee Toft Simonson, born May 12, 1965, is a former model from Denmark, who currently works as a writer. Simonsen was one of the most successful models in the world during the 1980s. Simonsen was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where she worked as a supermarket cashier before she was discovered. In 1981 she caught the attention...
[Continue reading: Renee Simonsen]
Kelly LeBrock
Kelly LeBrock, born March 24, 1960, is an English actress, model, and ’80’s sex icon known for her acting debut in The Woman in Red, co-starring Comedian Gene Wilder, and the following cult film Weird Science, directed by the legendary, late John Hughes. LeBrock was born in New York City, New York,...
[Continue reading: Kelly LeBrock]
Paulina Porizkova
Paulina Porizkova, born April 9, 1965, is a Czech model and actress. Born in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, she was still a toddler when her father and mother left Czechoslovakia, fleeing the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, and moved to Lund in southern Sweden. They left Paulina under the care of her grandmother, believing...
[Continue reading: Paulina Porizkova]
Wanakee Pugh
Before Vera Wang became a national symbol for creativity and success, she was a talented and spirited fashion editor for Vogue Magazine. In 1981 she began featuring a new face in her glamorous editorial pages. Today artist Wanakee Pugh credits Ms. Wang for giving her a tremendous start that launched a successful twenty-year...
[Continue reading: Wanakee Pugh]
Juli Foster
Uber-Hot Late ’70’s, Early ’80’s Supermodel. Juli was one of the first fashion models to appear on the cover of Time magazine in 1982, she was also featured on: British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Fashions of the Times. Advertising clients included: Charles of the Ritz, Lancetti,...
[Continue reading: Juli Foster]
Joan Severance
Joan Severance, born December 23, 1958, is an American actress and former fashion model. Born in Houston, Texas, Severance’s family moved often while she was growing up. The family had to leave Libya during the Six Day War in 1967. They moved back to Houston where she attended Westbury High School and, at the...
[Continue reading: Joan Severance]
Vibeke Knudsen
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=5&intObjectID=4893166&sid=
[Continue reading: Vibeke Knudsen]
Tara Shannon
www.tarashannon.com
[Continue reading: Tara Shannon]
Susan Hess
Beginning at the age of 17, the classically-trained ballerina spent a year performing with the San Francisco Ballet under Artistic Director Michael Smuin. Then, in 1978, the lanky teen began a seven-year stint that would make her one of Europe’s most successful fashion models. She would ultimately grace over a dozen...
[Continue reading: Susan Hess]
Shelly Smith
Shelly Smith was born in Princeton, New Jersey October 25, 1952. Smith was a popular print and runway model in the 1970s and ’80s. Smith also acted in dozens of popular TV series throughout the ”70’s and ’90’s, although her greatest success was on celebrity game shows such as: Battle of...
[Continue reading: Shelly Smith]
Shelly Hack
Shelly Marie Hack (born July 6, 1947) is an American former actress and model. Hack was born in Grenwich Connecticut. She graduated from Greenwich Academy and Smith College. She began her career as a teen fashion model and became the face of Revlon’s Charlie perfume in the mid 1970s, which gave her national exposure...
[Continue reading: Shelly Hack]
Sheila Johnson
Former Model’s Product Hides Nipples under Sheer Clothes July 8, 2003 BIRMINGHAM, AL (AP) — An entrepreneur and former fashion model in Birmingham, Alabama, has a product that she says will save women a lot of embarrassment. Sheila Johnson and her husband Kraig are the designers of Nippits. They’re...
[Continue reading: Sheila Johnson]
Rene Russo
Born in 1954, Rene Marie Russo grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Burbank, a Los Angeles suburb. Her father, a sculptor and mechanic, left the family when Rene was just two, leaving her mother, Shirley, as a single mom with two daughters. (Rene has one sister, named Toni). In Junior High School, Rene was plagued...
[Continue reading: Rene Russo]
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski) is a German actress, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of ‘Tess Durbeyfield’ in Roman Polanski’s film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and...
[Continue reading: Nastassja Kinski]
Monika Schnarre
Former Supermodel and actor Monika Schnarre has set her sights on yet another career… After 40 plus movie and television appearances, Monika has decided to leave the acting world and take on a new career as a Television Host. Landing her first gig right away on Celebrity: RSVP, which takes you behind the scenes...
[Continue reading: Monika Schnarre]
Michelle Stevens
[Continue reading: Michelle Stevens]
Lise Ryall
[Continue reading: Lise Ryall]
Lisa Taylor
Modeled for: American Vogue and Italian Vogue. As Calvin Klein’s pre-Brooke Shields muse, the 5′9″ Taylor epitomized the fresh-scrubbed style of the 70s. “Lisa is the ultimate combination of sporty and sexy, which is the quintessential American look,” says Michael Kors, who wrote a tribute...
[Continue reading: Lisa Taylor]
Lena Kansbod
For John Casablancas, an Italian restaurant in Stockholm was Schwab’s Drug Store, and a high school girl checking coats was Lana Turner. “You know, you could be a model,” said Casablancas, the founder of Elite Model Management and the firm’s chairman of the board, to the tall 17-year-old with...
[Continue reading: Lena Kansbod]
Lara Harris
Demand Grows For Older Models July 13, 2008 There’s been a sea change in the fashion industry — the rise of models over age 40. Lara Harris, a “classic” model” who put her second career as a psychotherapist on hold to return to modeling, speaks to host Andrea Seabrook. ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Your...
[Continue reading: Lara Harris]
Joanne Russell
www.books-by-isbn.com/authors/joanne/russell/
[Continue reading: Joanne Russell]
Jane Gill
For Jane Gill, modeling was a family business she entered into effortlessly. Her sister, Kit Gill, was a top model in the 50s and 60s. As a young teen, Jane loved to accompany Kit on her bookings in New York. On one of these shoots, Jane had the good fortune to meet Bill Blass. Blass was so impressed with young Jill;...
[Continue reading: Jane Gill]
Eva Voorhees
Eva Voorhees, born in Los Angeles, California, established a reputation in the late seventies and the eighties as one of the most captivating models of her time. With her soft, romantic face, deep green eyes and full lips, Eva’s Pre-Raphaelite appearance was unique in the fashion industry. Eva started modeling out...
[Continue reading: Eva Voorhees]
Donna Stia
Donna at Dead Horse Canyon | Moab, Utah | Bazaar Model Donna Stia on a beauty shoot for Bazaar. Donna had never rappelled before. Our guides took her through it without props, and sans the appropriate garments. On her 2nd try Donna descended a bit too quickly for me to get all the shots that I wanted. Donna didn’t...
[Continue reading: Donna Stia]
Daniela Ghione
Daniela Ghione was born on October 13, 1964 in Torino, Italy. When she was barely 16 years old, a photographer’s agent and close friend of hers recognized her potential to succeed as a fashion model based on her uncommon beauty and stature. Soon after her friend’s encouragement, the scientific secondary student...
[Continue reading: Daniela Ghione]
Cheryl Tiegs
Tiegs was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota on September 25, 1947, but raised in Alhambra, California, and she graduated from Alhambra High School in 1965. She also attended the California State University, Los Angeles and became a little sister to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Cheryl Tiegs was perhaps the most...
[Continue reading: Cheryl Tiegs]
Catherine Roberts
Catherine Roberts became one of the most photographed “Beauty” models during the late 70’s and early 80’s. At six feet tall and quite voluptuous, she was outside the rail-thin model standard of the day. The legendary Wilhelmina Cooper, another tall, voluptuous brunette, recognized the potential in Catherine’s...
[Continue reading: Catherine Roberts]
Catherine Oxenberg
Catherine Oxenberg (Katarina Oksenberg) (born September 22, 1961 in New York City) is an American actress, best known for her performance as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s American prime time soap opera Dynasty. Through her mother, she is a descendant of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. Born in New York City, Oxenberg...
[Continue reading: Catherine Oxenberg]
Carrie Nygren
Carrie Nygren is a Swedish model and actress. She was represented by the Elite Model Agency in New York. She worked in the late ’70s Early ’80s. She appeared in several films: “Portfolio” in 1983 with Kelly Emberg and Paulina Porizkova. “The Look” (1985), and “King of New York” as Melanie with...
[Continue reading: Carrie Nygren]
Carrie Lowell
Carey Lowell (born February 11, 1961) is an American actress and former model. Lowell was born in Huntington, New York and spent much of her childhood traveling with her father, James Lowell, who was a geologist. Immediately after high school, she was signed by the Ford modeling agency. She would model for such clients...
[Continue reading: Carrie Lowell]
Carole Kurzin
www.modelscomposites.com/getlist.php?list=mod&choice=Carole+Kurzin&year=all
[Continue reading: Carole Kurzin]
Carol Alt
Carol Ann Alt, born December 1, 1960, is an American model and actress. Alt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Muriel, an airline employee and model, and Anthony Alt, a fire chief. She was noticed waiting tables in her hometown of East Williston, New York. When she was 18, she decided to try modeling...
[Continue reading: Carol Alt]
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) was born in New York City into a well-known American society family with links to Italian nobility. Her grandmother was the Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia. Her father, Francis Alexander Shields, was a businessman, and her mother, Teri Shields (née Maria Theresa...
[Continue reading: Brooke Shields]
Beth Rupert
[Continue reading: Beth Rupert]
Anette Stai
Karen Anette Stai, born March 24, 1961, is a Norwegian model. She won the first “Face of The 80s” contest for the Ford Model Agency, and was one of the top models of the 1980s. Stai was an editorial favorite, working often with American Vogue, Italian Vogue, German Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Mademoiselle,...
[Continue reading: Anette Stai]
Bitten
Bitten Knudsen was a Danish-born model who did most of her high fashion work from 1977-1982. With her striking white-blonde hair, she was a favorite of Glamour magazine, Bazaar and Cosmopolitan, and was often featured on their covers. She worked with many of the era’s greatest fashion photographers: Helmut Newton,...
[Continue reading: Bitten]
Beverly Johnson
Beverly Johnson (born October 13, 1952) is an American supermodel, actress, and businesswoman. She made history when she rose to fame as the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974. The groundbreaking achievement paved the way for black women in fashion, and future supermodels like Naomi...
[Continue reading: Beverly Johnson]
Andie MacDowell
In the early 1980s, MacDowell modeled for Vogue magazine and appeared in ad campaigns for Yves Saint Laurent, Vassarette, Armani perfume, Sabeth-Row, Mink International, Anne Klein and Bill Blass. She worked with such esteemed photographers as Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn and Herb Ritts among...
[Continue reading: Andie MacDowell]
Patti Hansen
Patricia “Patti” Elvina Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is a American model and actress. Hansen, who is of Norwegian ancestry, was born and raised in the Tottenville section of Staten Island, New York. The youngest of six children, Hansen was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14. After Gert took...
[Continue reading: Patti Hansen]
Margaux Hemmingway
Margaux Louise Hemingway was born in Portland, Oregon, February 16, 1955, and was the older sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was named for the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Puck and Jack Hemingway (eldest son of Ernest), were drinking the night...
[Continue reading: Margaux Hemmingway]
Lauren Hutton
Lauren Hutton was one of the first “supermodels,” a cover girl and cosmetics spokeswoman since the 1960s who is instantly recognized by her gap-toothed smile. Born Mary Lawrence Hutton on November 17, 1943, in South Carolina and raised in rural Florida, Lauren Hutton embarked on a modeling career in roundabout...
[Continue reading: Lauren Hutton]
Kathy Ireland
Kathy Ireland was born in Glendale, California, the daughter of John Ireland, a labor union organizer, and Barbara Ireland. At age 17, Ireland was “discovered” by an agent for the Elite Model Management company, and by the time she graduated from high school, she was working steadily as a model. Starting...
[Continue reading: Kathy Ireland]
Karen Howard
Karen Howard McHugh
[Continue reading: Karen Howard]
Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre Connick, born March 29, 1965, is an American actress and former model. She was one of Victoria’s Secret main models in the 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to Harry Connick, Jr. Goodacre appeared as herself in an episode (“The One With the Blackout”) of the popular sitcom Friends...
[Continue reading: Jill Goodacre]
Jerry Hall
Jerry Faye Hall was born on July 2, 1956 in Gonzales, Texas, the daughter of Marjorie (née Sheffield) and John P. Hall, a truck-driver. She is of English descent. Hall was raised in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas, where she graduated from North Mesquite High School. She has a twin sister, Terry, and three older...
[Continue reading: Jerry Hall]
Jane Hitchcock
Jane Hitchcock’s remarkable career in modeling began at age 14 when she was chosen as one of two girls from all over America for a scholarship to train at the school of Balanchine for the world’s premier ballet company, The New York City Ballet. She would make her first airplane trip to the wondrous city of New...
[Continue reading: Jane Hitchcock]
Dayle Haddon
Dayle Haddon is a model and actress, presently known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L’Oréal. Additionally, she is credited as author of Ageless Beauty: A Woman’s Guide to Lifelong Beauty and Well-Being. During the earlier part of her career as a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of...
[Continue reading: Dayle Haddon]
Gia
Gia Carangi was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi, who was of Italian, Welsh and Irish ancestry, was considered by some to be the first supermodel. Gia Carangi was also the first to present unusual poses, facial expressions and gestures. She is credited by many at the upper echelons...
[Continue reading: Gia]
Anne Bezamat
Anne’s international modeling career was launched when she was discovered at age twelve and a half, and she grew up surrounded and nourished by designers, photographers, and artists such as Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, Hiro, Patrick Demarchelier...
[Continue reading: Anne Bezamat]
Anna Anderson
Swedish fashion model popular in the US during the late 1970s, early 1980s, represented by the Ford Model Agency. Acted in: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Portfolio (1983).
[Continue reading: Anna Anderson]
Bonnie Berman
Bonnie Berman
[Continue reading: Bonnie Berman]
Carmen Dell’Orefice
A few months shy of her fourteenth birthday in the summer of 1945, Carmen Dell’ Orefice, an introverted, skinny kid of Italian-Hungarian extraction (father a musician, mother a dancer) walked over to the Vogue studios at 480 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan and reported for work. Her first pictures – by the underrated...
[Continue reading: Carmen Dell’Orefice]
Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley (born February 2, 1954) is an American model best known for her three appearances on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in the late 1970s and early ’80s, for her long-running contract with CoverGirl and for being the ex-wife of musician Billy Joel. Brinkley has also worked as...
[Continue reading: Christie Brinkley]
Clotilde
Kristin Clotilde Darnell-born 1951 as Kristin Clotilde Holby in Oslo, Norway, Holby grew up in Larchmont, New York and attended Murray Avenue School and Mamaroneck High School. Later she took courses in apparel design at Rhode Island School of Design and started working as a fabric designer for a textile company. Known...
[Continue reading: Clotilde]
Diane DeWitt
Dianne deWitt’s distinguished career in the fashion field has spanned over two decades. Her professionalism, keen sense of style and knowledge of the industry are results of Ms. deWitt’s years as an international model, both on the runway and in print. Presently as a wardrobe and image consultant, Ms. deWitt...
[Continue reading: Diane DeWitt]
Janice Dickinson
Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1953) is an American model, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. By the 1980s, she was considered a supermodel in the fashion industry, and later expanded her profession to reality television by judging for four cycles on America’s Next Top Model....
[Continue reading: Janice Dickinson]
Karen Bjornson
A ‘Halstonette’ on the Runway Again In a season of chic revivals, the latest is the resurrection of Karen Bjornson’s career. Ms. Bjornson will be remembered as the patrician-looking house model for Halston. She retired in the early 1980’s after marrying Timothy Macdonald, an interior designer,...
[Continue reading: Karen Bjornson]
Kim Charlton
http://www.patrickmcmullan.com/site/search.aspx?t=person&s=Kim+Charlton http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2003/10.10.03/partypictures10.10.03.2.php
[Continue reading: Kim Charlton]
Lisa Berkley
www.iceposter.com/posters/Lisa_Berkley/
[Continue reading: Lisa Berkley]
Nancy Decker
Nancy Decker has her eyelashes dyed every six weeks but otherwise does little to her face except bathe it in moonbeams. This seems reasonable, since she is only 17. She is a rarity, a blazing, natural redhead, discovered in Milwaukee in 1979. Top-Top Photographer Albert Watson says that Decker is a face to watch....
[Continue reading: Nancy Decker]
Nancy DeWeir
At age 15 (1978) Nancy DeWeir was discovered by ad exec Vincent Teschetti ( Vice President of BBD&O) while traveling on the Long Island Rail Road with her mother to have dinner in the city with her father, who worked in the Twin Towers. After being turned away by Wilhelmina, Stewart and Zoli modeling agencies,...
[Continue reading: Nancy DeWeir]
Sean Casey
[Continue reading: Sean Casey]
Christina Ferrare
Author, talk-show host, actress and supermodel Cristina Ferrare has been in the spotlight for nearly four decades. She was first introduced to the fashion world when, at age fourteen, she was discovered as a model. During the 1970s and 1980s, her face graced the covers of Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Good...
[Continue reading: Christina Ferrare]
Esme
[Continue reading: Esme]
Kelly Emberg
Kelly Emberg (born July 2, 1959) is a former model, best known for her relationship with rock star Rod Stewart. Kelly was born in Houston, Texas, and attended Stratford High School where she was a member of the school’s female drill team, the Spartanaires. She did some modeling during high school and was “discovered”...
[Continue reading: Kelly Emberg]
Michelle Eabry
Michelle Eabry modeled for Sportscraft in the early 1990’s. Her career also includes campaigns modeling for Calvin Klein and Anne Klein as well as featuring on the covers of Australian and international fashion magazines. Michelle now works behind the lens as a talented photographer, however there’s no doubt that...
[Continue reading: Michelle Eabry]
Nancy Donahue
Nancy Donahue (born 16 February 1958) is an American fashion model and actress. The daughter of a noted lawyer and a philanthropist mother, Donahue grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. While attending Lasell College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, she was discovered by Mademoiselle magazine after winning a modeling competition....
[Continue reading: Nancy Donahue]
Peggy Dillard
Peggy became a model as the result of being a student, as she explains. Her career took off in a very uncanny way, without a portfolio or an agent. Preparing for shows as a student, she would visit many of the showrooms in the fashion district, and the designers would ask her to do their shows. That is where the press...
[Continue reading: Peggy Dillard]
Terry Farrell
Theresa Lee “Terry” Farrell (born November 19, 1963) is an American actress and former fashion model. She was a featured cast member on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Becker. Farrell is the daughter of Kay Carol Christine Bendickson and Edwin Francis Farrell, Jr. Later, her mother...
[Continue reading: Terry Farrell]
Jacki Adams
In the 1980’s, Jacqueline worked in Manhattan as one of the world’s top models. As a Ford Model, Jacki Adams worked with photographers Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Arthur Elgort, Francesco Scavullo, Patrick Demarchelier, Hiro, & Albert Watson. Five of those years were spent as the exclusive face for...
[Continue reading: Jacki Adams]Read More Posts From Supermodels »