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… Read More »
Iman Abdulmajid
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… Read More »
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…. Read More »
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… Read More »
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…. Read More »
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… 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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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 »
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 famous American model of the… Read More »
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 Schmonn), managed her career. Shields… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
Bonnie Berman
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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,… Read More »
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…. Read More »
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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
Kelly Emberg
Kelly Emberg (born July 2, 1959) 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 Casablancas who brought her to New York City where her print career took off…. Read More »
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. She appeared in the August, 1978 edition and… Read More »
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… Read More »