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 age… Read More »
Tara Shannon
Tara Shannon is the Forest Gump of Modeling. Her knack for being at the forefront of a trend is uncanny. What a career. She did it all: Covers, editorial, couture, runways, advertising, catalogues, commercials, television, movies, music video’s. She was Ring Mistress for Cirque du Soleil AND trained with them in Canada; she was on… Read More »
Shelley Smith
Shelley 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 the Network Stars,” (1979),… Read More »
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 an adhesive cosmetic product that allows… Read More »
Michelle Stevens
Top cover girl of the 70s, Michelle Stevens-Childs, has a new attitude: “All the glamour and fame that came with modeling was so exciting to me in my early 20s, but eventually I felt I had to get a real life. So I got married, moved to the country, had two kids and started my… Read More »
Lise Ryall
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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 to her in Vogue in May explaining how a 1976 photo… Read More »
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… Read More »
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 of high school in… Read More »