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. Following this, Vela moved to New [...]

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 minister, performed [...]

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 Bergman and the Italian director [...]

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 of the few Puerto Rican families that [...]

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 City and [...]

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 Arabia, and has two brothers, Elyas and Feisal, [...]

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 a decade.
McGrotha was [...]

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 of [...]

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, but raised in London, England and in the countryside in Sussex. [...]

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 that their daughter could [...]

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 modeling career. [...]

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, Hanes, DeBeers, Fendi Furs, Weathervane, Royal Silk.
Juli worked with Jaques [...]

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 of [...]

Vibeke Knudsen

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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).

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