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, Francesco Scavullo, Albert Watson, John [...]

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 Campbell and Tyra [...]

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 others. A series of billboards in Time [...]

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 Hansen to a party hosted [...]

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 she was conceived. In addition [...]

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 fashion by becoming a Playboy bunny [...]

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 in 1984, Ireland was featured [...]

Karen Howard

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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 in 1994.
She directed one [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 many top fashion and beauty magazines, [...]

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 [...]

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 and Andy Warhol, just to name a few. During that time [...]

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).

Bonnie Berman

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 Clifford Coffin – show [...]

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 an actress, illustrator, photographer, [...]

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 as Clotilde, Darnell became [...]

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 focuses her attention on the needs and [...]

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. She subsequently opened her own modeling agency, which was documented as The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.
Janice [...]

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, and becoming a mom.
With her daughters, Laura, 20, and Maggie, [...]

Kim Charlton

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http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2003/10.10.03/partypictures10.10.03.2.php

Lisa Berkley

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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. Nancy, who makes [...]

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, she [...]

Shaun Casey

Shaun Casey was a model active from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. By 1987 she had given up modeling for all but a few favorite clients.
In the late 1970s, Casey was associated with famous hairstylist, John Sahag, who created a stir by cutting her hair extremely short and bleaching it white for a Helmut [...]

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 Housekeeping, among others.   Following [...]

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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” by John [...]

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