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List of Ford vehicles
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The following is a list of vehicles manufactured by the Ford Motor Company under the Ford marque. For other vehicles produced by Ford Motor Company see List of Mercury vehicles, List of Lincoln vehicles, the following year, Versatile was purchased, giving Ford a complete agricultural lineup. In 1988 Ford Motor Company sold 80% of Ford New Holland Inc. to Fiat, by 1999, Fiat had phased out the use of the Ford name, and badged their tractors as New Holland. E. g. Ford F8, F15, F15A, F30, F60S, F60L, FAT, C11ADF etc. ]
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Supermodel of the World (contest)
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Supermodel of the World is an international modeling contest established by Eileen Ford in 1980. The contest showcases young fashion model entrants from over 50 countries in order to new talent for the fashion industry. The winner of the final event receives a $250,000 modeling contract with Ford Models. The two runners up receive contracts of $150,000 and $100,000 respectively, no event was held in 2003
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, adjacent to the Greater Phoenix Area. The New York Times described downtown Scottsdale as a version of Miamis South Beach and as having plenty of late night partying. Its slogan is The Wests Most Western Town, Scottsdale,31 miles long and 11.4 miles wide at its widest point, shares boundaries with many other municipalities and entities. On the west, Scottsdale is bordered by Phoenix, Paradise Valley, carefree is located along the western boundary, as well as sharing Scottsdales northern boundary with the Tonto National Forest. To the south Scottsdale is bordered by Tempe, the area which would include what would become Scottsdale was originally inhabited by the Hohokam, from approximately 300 BC to 1450 AD. This ancient civilization farmed the area and developed a network of canals for irrigation which was unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. At its peak, the canals stretched over 250 miles, many of which remains extant today, some having been renovated. Under still-mysterious circumstances, the Hohokam disappeared around 1450 or 1500, the areas later occupants, the Pima and Oodham, are thought to be the direct descendants of the Hohokam people. Before European settlement, Scottsdale was a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, some Pima remained in their original homes well into the 20th century. For example, until the late 1960s, there was a traditional dwelling on the southeast corner of Indian Bend Road. Currently, those Pima who live within Scottsdale reside in homes rather than traditional dwellings. Many Pima and Maricopa people continue to reside on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, in the early to mid 1880s, U. S. Army Chaplain Winfield Scott visited the Salt River Valley and was impressed with the region and its potential for agriculture. Returning in 1888 with his wife, Helen, he purchased 640 acres for $3.50 an acre for a stretch of land where downtown Scottsdale is now located. Many of the original settlers, recruited by Scott from the East and Midwest, were educated and had an appreciation for cultural activities. The towns name was changed to Scottsdale in 1894, after its founder, while not in its original building, Cavallieres has been in continuance operation since that time. Between 1908 and 1933, due to the construction of the Granite Reef and Roosevelt dams, Scottsdales population experienced a boom, Scottsdale became a small market town providing services for families involved in the agricultural industry. Although cotton is grown in southern Arizona, Scottsdales cotton boom ended with the loss of government contracts at the end of the war. In 1920, a resort was opened on 12 acres of the property owned by the artist Jessie Benton Evans
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Maud Adams
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Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the daughter of Thyra, a government tax inspector, and Gustav Wikström, a comptroller. She had once wanted to work as an interpreter as she is fluent in five languages, Adams moved to Paris and later to New York City to work for Eileen Ford. At this time she was one of the highest paid and most exposed models in the world and her acting career started when she was asked to appear in the 1970 movie The Boys in the Band, in which she played a photo-shoot model in the opening credits. In the 1970s, she guest-starred in such American TV series as Hawaii Five-O, in short order, she appeared in Norman Jewisons futuristic Rollerball, several European films, and in the steamy obsession thriller Tattoo with Bruce Dern. While portraying a Bond girl has not always indicated continued success as an actress, Adams comments, Looking back on it and its pop culture and to be part of that is very nice. In September of that year she appeared in Playboy in an issue on the Bond Girls. She hosted the Swedish TV show Kafé Luleå in 1994 and played a guest role in the Swedish soap opera Vita lögner in 1998. She guest-starred on That 70s Show in 2000, appearing as a bridesmaid to Tanya Roberts, along with Kristina Wayborn and Barbara Carrera, Adams has remained close to the Bond producers, often attending Bond premieres and other events associated with the series. She also was the president of a company called Scandinavian Biocosmetics. Adamss first marriage, from 1966–1975 to photographer Roy Adams, ended in divorce and she married her current husband, private mediator and retired judge, Charles Rubin, in 1999. Kate Larrabee The Hostage Tower as Sabrina Carver Playing for Time as Mala Chicago Story as Dr. Judith Bergstrom Emerald Point N. A. S
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Carol Alt
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Carol Ann Alt is an American model and actress. Alt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Muriel, an employee and model, and Anthony Alt. She was noticed waiting tables in East Williston, Long Island, Alt is of German, Belgian, and Irish descent. During the 1980s she appeared on over 500 magazine covers, becoming one of the most famous models of her era, Alt graced the covers of Vogue, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Mademoiselle, Elle and Cosmopolitan. She was referred to as The Face by Life Magazine, during the height of her popularity, she was the face of ad campaigns for Diet Pepsi, General Motors, Cover Girl Cosmetics, Noxzema, Hanes, Givenchy and numerous others. She was the first model to produce her own posters and calendars, since 1986 she has appeared in a variety of films, many of which were Italian productions. In 2004 she had a role in Snakehead Terror, a Canadian film. She played Karen Oldham in the adaptation of Peter Benchleys Amazon. She also had a few television roles, including one episode of Wings. She took on a number of projects, including becoming a consultant with the Le Mirador skin-care line. Alt has written two books, promoting her own raw food diet plans and she was the cover girl for travelgirl magazine. She appeared on the cover and in a pictorial in Playboys December 2008 issue. She placed #5 on askmen. coms list of Top 10 Models Of All Time, in 2006 Alt was honored as Grand Marshal at the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City, the largest celebration of German–American Friendship in the United States. She was greeted by thousands of fans alongside Fifth Avenue and she ended up in third place before being fired, but was brought back for the final task of the show and was chosen by finalist Piers Morgan to help him to become the Celebrity Apprentice. Alt raised a total of $40,000 for her charity and she starred in the Italian TV series Caterina e le sue figlie 2 and in the TV movie Piper, both were aired on Canale5 in 2007. In 2009 she was one of the contestants of the Italian version of Dancing with the Stars, shes also filming a new Italian TV series called Piper—The series, a spinoff of the successful TV movie of the same title broadcast on Canale5. In 2008 she founded Raw Essentials, a skin-care and beauty products line with her partners, each installment ends with a segment called Ask Carol, in which she answers questions she receives on Facebook and Twitter. In October 2013, Alt was inducted into the Ride of Fame, a double decker New York City tour bus was dedicated to her and her career
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Caitriona Balfe
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Caitriona Balfe is an Irish actress and model. In 1999, while studying Theatre at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Balfe was offered work as a fashion model in Paris. Balfe has also appeared in the films Super 8, Now You See Me, Escape Plan and Money Monster, Balfe started modeling after she was scouted by an agent while she was collecting money for charity at a local mall. At nineteen, after working as a model in Dublin for a few months, she caught the attention of a visiting Ford Models scout, in a period of three years, she walked in over 250 runway shows. Often credited professionally as simply Caitriona, at the height of her career she was considered to be in the Top 20 of most in-demand models in the world, due to models being considered freelancers under Italian law, her lawyer discouraged her from filing a lawsuit. Against her agency’s advice, Balfe decided to stop working for BCBG until she was returned all the money she was owed, incidents like the aforementioned led to the creation of The Model Alliance. Reflecting on her career, Balfe commented, Modeling wasnt a passion of mine so that made it get old kind of quickly, while living in New York, Balfe played the minor role of an employee of the magazine Runway in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Balfe has appeared in the films Super 8, as the mother, Now You See Me, as Michael Caines characters wife. In 2012 she portrayed Alex #34 in The Beauty Inside, a social film divided into six episodes that narrates the story of a man named Alex who wakes up in a different body every day. In 2013 she starred in the videos for First Fires by British musician Bonobo, and for Chloroform by French band Phoenix. Balfe was part of the main cast of the Warner Bros and she plays a mid-20th-century nurse who is transported back in time to the war-torn mid-18th-century Scottish Highlands. Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Balfe is reason enough to watch, james Poniewozik of Time labelled Balfes portrayal as wry, infectiously engaging. Angelica Jade Bastién of The New York Times called Balfe one of the most stunning actresses on television. In December 2014 Entertainment Weekly named Balfe one of its 12 Breakout Stars of 2014 and she won Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television in 2015 and 2016. Balfe also received two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Outlander, Balfe co-starred in the film Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster and starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. She played the head of PR of a company whose stock bottoms out, causing a man to all of his savings. Balfe was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in the village of Tydavnet, near Monaghan, in a family of seven, in addition to English, she is a Gaeilgeoir and is conversational in French. She is a patron of the organisation World Child Cancer, Caitriona Balfe at the Internet Movie Database Outlander Interview
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Kim Basinger
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Kimila Ann Kim Basinger is an American actress, singer and former fashion model. Following a successful modeling career in New York during the 1970s and she starred in several made-for-TV films, including a remake of From Here to Eternity, before making her feature debut in the 1981 drama Hard Country. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lynn Bracken in the 1997 film L. A. Confidential. For her role in L. A. Confidential, she won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include I Dreamed of Africa,8 Mile, The Door in the Floor, Cellular, The Nice Guys, Basinger was born in Athens, Georgia, on December 8,1953. Her mother, Ann Lee, was a model, actress and her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager, as a U. S. Army soldier, he landed in Normandy on D-Day. The third of five children, she has two brothers, James Michael Mick and Skip, and two sisters, Ashley and Barbara, basingers ancestry includes English, German, Swedish, and Scots-Irish. Basinger has described herself as shy, which had a major effect on her during her childhood. She has said that her shyness was so extreme that she would faint if asked to speak in class, Basinger studied ballet from about age three to her mid-teens. By her mid-teens, she grew in confidence and successfully auditioned for the cheerleading team. At 17, she entered the Americas Junior Miss Scholarship Pageant, although she lost in the state pageant to Sue Whitted, who competed as Georgias Junior Miss, her beauty was profiled in the national program. She had competed at the level for the Breck Scholarship and was featured in an ad for Breck in a joint portrait with her mother. She was subsequently offered a contract with the Ford Modeling Agency. She turned it down in favor of singing and acting, and enrolled at the University of Georgia, but soon reconsidered and went to New York to become a Ford model. Despite earning $1,000 a day, Basinger never enjoyed modeling, saying It was very hard to go from one booking to another and always have to deal with the way I looked. Basinger has said that even as a model, when others relished looking in the mirror before appearing, she abhorred it, not long after her Ford deal, Basinger appeared on the cover of magazines. She appeared in hundreds of advertisements throughout the early 1970s, most notably as the Breck Shampoo girl and she alternated between modeling and attending acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as performing in Greenwich Village clubs as a singer. In 1976, after five years as a girl, Basinger quit modeling
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Candice Bergen
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Candice Patricia Bergen is an American actress and former fashion model. She won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her ten seasons as the character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown. She is also known for her role as Shirley Schmidt on the ABC drama Boston Legal and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Starting Over, and for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gandhi. Bergen began her career as a model and appeared on the front cover of Vogue magazine. She went on to star in The Sand Pebbles, Soldier Blue, Carnal Knowledge and The Wind and she made her Broadway debut in the 1984 play Hurlyburly. From 2000 to 2002, she appeared in three episodes of the HBO series Sex and the City and her other film roles include Miss Congeniality, Sweet Home Alabama, The Women and Bride Wars. In the 2010s, she returned to Broadway to star in the revivals of The Best Man, Bergen was born in Beverly Hills, California. She weighed seven pounds,12 ounces and her mother, Frances Bergen, was a Powers model who was known professionally as Frances Westcott. Her father, Edgar Bergen, was a famous ventriloquist, comedian and her paternal grandparents were Swedish-born immigrants who anglicized their surname, which was originally Berggren. As a child, Candice was irritated at being described as Charlie McCarthys little sister. She began appearing on her fathers radio program at a young age and she said that when she grew up, she wanted to design clothes. She ultimately received a doctorate from Penn in May 1992. She worked as a model before she took up acting. In 1966, Bergen made her screen debut playing a university student in The Group, the same year, she played the role of Shirley Eckert, an assistant school teacher in The Sand Pebbles opposite Steve McQueen. The movie was nominated for several Academy Awards and she was featured in a 1970 political satire, The Adventurers, playing a frustrated socialite. In 1975 she starred with Sean Connery in The Wind and the Lion, Bergen had roles in Western films including The Hunting Party and Bite the Bullet, both of which starred Gene Hackman. Another Western she starred in was the highly controversial Soldier Blue, a worldwide hit and it led to Bergens being voted by British exhibitors as the seventh most popular star at the British box office in 1971. She was the love interest of Ryan ONeal in the Love Story sequel, Olivers Story, in 1982, Bergen appeared in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi in which she portrayed documentary photographer Margaret Bourke-White
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America's Next Top Model, Cycle 15
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The fifteenth cycle of Americas Next Top Model premiered on September 8,2010 and was the ninth season to be aired on The CW network. The promotional song for this cycle is California Gurls by Katy Perry, the episode titles for this cycle were based on the guest judges. The catch-phrase for this cycle is Are You Ready For High Fashion, several changes were made to the show in a bid to place greater emphasis on high fashion, including a lineup of prominent fashion industry guest judges as well as a change in prizes. The prizes for this cycle are, A modeling contract with IMG Models, a fashion spread in Vogue Italia, and both the cover and a spread in Beauty In Vogue, and will be featured on Vogue. it. A US$100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, the following prizes have been removed, A modeling contract with Wilhelmina Models. A fashion spread and cover in Seventeen, all three permanent judges from the previous cycle – Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, photographer Nigel Barker and Tyra Banks herself – remain. The winner was 19-year-old Ann Ward from Dallas, Texas, starting from this season, the guest judge name of the episode was aired and is included in the title. It replaces titles with quotes from contestants and cast, in episode 3, Terra was eliminated after the makeover shoot. Episode 12 was the recap episode, alexander – runway coach Jay Manuel – photo shoot director Rhianna Atwood has been signed to Paragon Model Management in Mexico City. Sara Blackamore has been signed to Ford Models in Los Angeles, Ann Ward has been signed to IMG Models in New York City. Ward also graced the cover of Velvet Magazine in fall of 2011 and has walked for Alex London together with fellow contestant Jane Randall, Alexandria Everett and Hannah Jones. She was also featured in the finale of Americas Next Top Model. Kendal Brown is signed with Wilhelmina Models as of 2011, kayla Ferrel was signed with Donna Model Management in Japan. In 2011, she participated in Americas Next Top Model, Cycle 17 and she also presented the Grammy award to Miranda Lambert at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. Chelsey Hersley has been signed to Passport Model Management in San Francisco, kacey Leggett has taken several test shots. Anamaria Mirdita has taken several test shots, and has modeled for Eryn Brinies Line, esther Petrack was signed with the Israel fashion agency A. D. D. and worked with Grip for its Winter 2010/2011 collection. In December 2011, she became an instructor in IDF. Jane Randall has been signed to IMG Models in New York City and in London and has walked for Alex London along with fellow contestants Ann Ward, Alexandria Everett
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Christie Brinkley
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Christie Brinkley is an American model and actress. Brinkley gained worldwide fame beginning in the late 1970s with three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers through 1981 and she spent twenty five years as the face of CoverGirl, has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with major brands—both fashion and non-fashion. Brinkley went on to work as an actress, illustrator, television personality, photographer, writer, designer, and activist for human and animal rights, Brinkley has been married four times, most notably to musician Billy Joel, several of whose music videos she appeared in. Her fourth marriage, to architect Peter Cook, ended in a much-publicized 2008 divorce, with a career spanning more than three decades, magazines such as Allure, Playboy, and Mens Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time. Her financial holdings in 2008 were worth an estimated US$80 million, in February 2012, she was ranked third in the Daily Mail list Worlds 20 richest models. Brinkley was born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan, the daughter of Marjorie and her family moved to Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, where her mother Marjorie later met and married television writer Don Brinkley in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Don adopted Christie and her brother Gregory Donald Brinkley, during this time, the family lived in Malibu and then the Brentwood neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Brinkley was educated at Paul Revere Junior High School and attended Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles from 9th to 12th grade, after graduation in 1973, she moved to Paris, France, to study art. Brinkley was discovered in 1973 by American photographer Errol Sawyer in a post office in Paris and he took her first modeling pictures and introduced her to John Casablancas of Elite Model Management agency in Paris. Brinkley stated later, I was basically a surfer girl from California, I never looked like a model. Multiple appearances on the cover of Glamour soon followed, along with a record 25-year contract with cosmetics brand CoverGirl, in 2005, CoverGirl again signed Brinkley, using her in ads in magazines and TV commercials for mature skin products. Brinkley was featured exclusively in the first Sports Illustrated Calendar and also released two of her own exclusive calendars to unparalleled success and she has held major contracts with Chanel No. 19, Prell, MasterCard, Breck, Diet Coke, Anheuser-Busch, healthy Choice, Max Factor, Nissan, Noxema, Revlon, Clairol, Borghese Cosmetics, Danskin, Nu Skin, Yardley of London, Halston, Vogue Patterns, Gottex and Black Velvet, among others. Brinkley has been photographed in six continents in more than 30 countries, in 2011, she appeared as herself in the documentary, King of the Hamptons, which was produced by filmmaker, Dennis Michael Lynch. The film premiered at the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival, on April 8,2011, in New York, Brinkley made her stage debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running musical Chicago. Brinkleys appearance on NBCs Mad About You was the broadcasters highest rated episode since the finale of The Cosby Show. She hosted Celebrity Weddings InStyle, the highest rated special in Lifetimes history, Brinkley made further television appearances, including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Specials and music videos for beau Billy Joel and Mick Jones Just Wanna Hold. Brinkley appears with Chuck Norris in a series of cable TV infomercials promoting Total Gym home fitness equipment
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Bebe Buell
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Beverle Lorence Bebe Buell is an American singer and former fashion model, and Playboy magazines November 1974 Playmate of the Month. She is the mother of actress Liv Tyler, whom she had with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler in 1977, in 2001, Buell wrote an autobiography titled Rebel Heart, An American Rock and Roll Journey. The book was a New York Times bestseller, the paperback was issued in 2002. Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the daughter of Dorothea Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, as her father was not at home at the time of Buells birth, her mother waited until he got back before naming her daughter. The nurses in the hospital took to calling her Baby Buell, Buell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17, and relocated to New York City at age 18. She was Playboy magazines Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue, in 1981, Buell recorded a four song EP on Rhino Records, produced by Rick Derringer and Ric Ocasek, with the Cars serving as her band on two tracks. The rock band the Power Station began in 1984 when her then-boyfriend John Taylor pulled some famous friends together to provide backing for another of Buells musical efforts and she also formed the band the B-Sides in 1980 but they disbanded in 1985. She founded another band called the Gargoyles in 1985, and released a couple of singles, a few large record companies were showing interest, but they disbanded when the paternity of her daughter Liv became publicly known in 1991. She withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s, Buell managed her daughter Liv, helping to launch her career as a successful international model and actress. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen, after Buells daughter left home in 1997, Buell returned to music to record a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 2000. She released her first recording in ten years with a single Air Kisses for the Masses in May 2009 and completed recording of a full-length 12-song album and it can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Buell is playing a series of shows in the New York City area to promote the single. In September 2011, Buell released Hard Love, a rock album influenced by grunge. The album was produced by Bebes husband James Wallerstein of the critically acclaimed proto-grunge band Das Damen, the 11-track record features original songs alongside covers of Gang of Fours I Love a Man in Uniform and Baby Baby by the English punk rock band the Vibrators. Buell has dated many musicians, beginning with Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills when she was 16 and she has dated Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, and Steven Tyler, but she rejects the label groupie. From 1972 to 1979, Bebe Buell had a longterm, on and off, in 1976, Buell became unexpectedly pregnant from her brief relationship with Steven Tyler. Rundgren and Buell ended their relationship shortly after Livs birth. At age nine, Liv found out that she was Steven Tylers biological daughter, in 1992, Buell married for the first time
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Amanda Bynes
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Amanda Laura Bynes is an American former actress. After appearing in commercials and in plays, Bynes rose to prominence as a star in the late 1990s and early 2000s on the Nickelodeon series All That. From 2002 to 2006, she starred in the sitcom What I Like About You on The WB and she has also starred in several films, including What a Girl Wants, Shes the Man, Hairspray, Sydney White, and Easy A. In 2012, Bynes announced that she was retiring from acting, Bynes was born in Thousand Oaks, California, the youngest of three children of Lynn Bynes, a dental assistant and office manager, and Rick Bynes, a dentist. Her father is Catholic, and is of Irish, Lithuanian, Bynes maternal grandparents are Canadians from Toronto, Ontario. Bynes attended a camp, and began professionally acting at the age of 7. During her childhood, she appeared on stage in versions of Annie, The Secret Garden, The Music Man. Bynes rose to prominence with her various roles in All That for seasons three through six and she later became a regular member of Nickelodeons Figure It Out. At the age of 13, she began starring in her own comedy show. She also made her debut in Charlottes Web 2, Wilburs Great Adventure. Amandas film career took off over the two years, with a role in the romantic comedy Lovewrecked and a starring role in the comedy Shes The Man. She also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fairs July 2003 edition, Bynes was named one of Teen Peoples 25 Hottest Stars Under 25 in 2006. Later that year, she starred in Shes the Man, a based on William Shakespeares Twelfth Night. Bynes appeared in romantic comedy, Love Wrecked. In 2006 release the film Shes the Man but released after it, showing in cinemas outside of the United States in 2005 and 2006, Bynes next role was Penny Pingleton in Hairspray. The film was a critical and commercial success, Hairspray went on to become Amandas most successful film at the time. Bynes was featured on the Hairspray soundtrack, which went on to get a Grammy nomination, Bynes next role was in another comedy, Sydney White, released on September 21,2007. In August 2007, Bynes teamed up with Steve & Barrys to create her own line called Dear, consisting of apparel
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Brooke Burke
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Brooke Burke-Charvet, better known by her maiden name, Brooke Burke, is an American actress, dancer, model, and television personality. She is known for Rock Star, winning the season of Dancing with the Stars. Brooke Lisa Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona and her mother is of Portuguese background but was adopted and raised Jewish. Her father is of French and Irish descent and left the family when she was 2 and she was thereafter raised by her Armenian stepfather in her mothers Jewish religion, and is raising her children Jewish although she also celebrates Christmas. She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson where she was homecoming queen in 1989, burkes initial claim to fame was her hosting of Wild On. on the E. network from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, Burke competed in the TV show host edition of The Weakest Link and was voted off in the second round. In 2005 and 2006, she hosted the CBS summer reality show, Rock Star, Burke, with Derek Hough as her partner, won season 7 of Dancing with the Stars. She later replaced Samantha Harris as co-host of the program and she began hosting season 10 of Dancing with the Stars alongside Tom Bergeron. On February 22,2014, it was announced that she would not return to the show for its 18th season, in 2009, she hosted NBCs pre-show for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards with Tiki Barber and Nancy ODell. In August 2010, she hosted the season of the TV Land series Shes Got the Look. She co-hosted the 2011,2012, and 2013 Miss America pageants with Chris Harrison and she once again served as the co-host of Miss America for its 2016 pageant. Burke-Charvet was a participant on The New Celebrity Apprentice but eliminated after 12th tasks, on November 25,2008, Brooke Burke & her partner Derek Hough won the competition, beating Super Bowl Champion Warren Sapp & his partner Kym Johnson. She is tied with Kristi Yamaguchi and Nicole Scherzinger for the most weeks at the top of the leaderboard with 8 out of 10 weeks, Brooke Burke has appeared in mens magazines such as Maxim, Stuff, Playboy, and FHM. In 2007, she was listed as one of Blenders hottest women of film, in 2007, Burke started a company, Baboosh Baby, which offers wraps for pregnant women. The companys website features a blog from Burke about her children, burkes first book, The Naked Mom, A Modern Moms Fearless Revelations, Savvy Advice, and Soulful Reflections, was published February 1,2011, by New American Library. It features her reflections on motherhood, Hollywood, romance, and she was the voice and face of Rachel Teller in Electronic Arts video game Need for Speed, Underground 2, and asks the People and Places questions in the video game Trivial Pursuit Unhinged. Burke starred as a character in the Burger King advergaming title PocketBike Racer. Burke has fronted infomercials promoting a Swiss ball video home fitness workout named Gunnar Petersons Core Secrets, the infomercials have screened in New Zealand and Australia
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America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6
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The sixth cycle of Americas Next Top Model premiered on March 8,2006, which would be the last cycle to air on UPN before merging with The WB to create The CW. The catch-phrase for this cycle was Fairy Tales Come True, the prizes for this cycle were, A modeling contract with Ford Models. A fashion spread and cover in Elle Magazine, a US$100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics. The international destination during this cycle was Bangkok & Phuket, Thailand, the winner was 20-year-old Danielle Evans from Little Rock, Arkansas. This first call-out does not reflect their performance, episode 10 was the recap episode. She has been on the cover of True Love, Clam, Onyx Style and she has appeared in Essence, Jewel and Arise magazine and has modeled for Red and Lulu. She also appeared in a commercial for McDonalds and she can be seen in the music video Girlfriend by Sergey Lazarev. Sara Albert had some test shoots with Elite Models Management and appeared in the cover and she has since left the industry, and is now married, took the name of her husband and now goes by Sara Hallmark and lives in Washington, D. C. She is currently working at Hogan Lovells as an law firm associate, furonda Brasfield has a contract with VMH Models in Vancouver that she received through the model scouting firm ModelScouts. com. She had her own show, Model Me TV and she has also appeared in a few ads and numerous runway shows. She also appeared in one episode of Cycle 10 and she has since left modelling and now works as a real estate agent. Gina Choe has taken a few test shots, is currently in school and she is signed with Ford Models Miami under the Lifestyle division. Jade Cole has opened up a company, the Biracial Butterfly Productions. She has also featured in several ads for Nellys Apple Bottoms Clothing Line. Joanie Dodds has been featured in several magazines and she appeared in one episode of Cycle 8 posing for photograph with contestant Renee Alway and she later appeared in Cycle 10. She was also a guest judge on Vietnamese Modeling Project, its format is related to ANTM and she has been signed to Elite Model Management in New York, Über-Warning Models and Elite Model Management in Hong Kong. Also a licensed contractor, Joanie was co-host of DIY Networks Run My Renovation for four seasons, Danielle Evans has collected all of her prizes and appeared in campaigns with Sephora, Tory Burch and Akedemiks. She was signed with Ford Models and has had her contract renewed multiple times
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Daiane Conterato
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Daiane Conterato is a Brazilian fashion model. She is represented by Ford Models Brasil in São Paulo, The Society Management in New York, Elite Milan in Milan, Elite Paris in Paris, Traffic Models in Barcelona, Conterato made her runway debut at the fall 2006 Prada show. During 2006, she appeared on the cover of LUomo Vogue and in editorials in V, French Vogue, the New York Times T style magazine, during the Spring 2007 fashion weeks, she opened the Alexander McQueen show and also walked for Chanel. During 2007, she appeared in advertisements for Marc Jacobs, Miss Sixty, Rebecca Taylor and in editorials in Vogue Italia, British Vogue, in March 2007, she was selected as one of the top ten new models by Marie Claire bookings editor Amy Argento. During Spring 2008 fashion weeks, Conterato opened the Alexandre Herchcovitch and Christopher Kane shows and she also walked in Spring 2008 couture shows including Armani Privé, Christian Dior, Givenchy, and Jean Paul Gaultier. During Fall 2008 fashion weeks, she opened for Ann Demeulemeester and also walked for Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Dries van Noten, Givenchy, during 2008, she appeared on the cover of Tank Magazine and in an editorial in Elle. During Spring 2009 fashion weeks, she opened for Alexandre Herchovitch and Proenza Schouler, Daiane Conterato at the Fashion Model Directory Diane Conterato at Models. com Daiane Conterato photos at Style. com
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Anderson Cooper
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Anderson Hays Cooper is an American journalist, television personality, and author. He is the anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City studio, however, Cooper often broadcasts live from CNNs studios in Washington, in addition, he is a major correspondent for 60 Minutes. From September 2011 to May 2013, he served as host of his own eponymous syndicated daytime talk show. Cooper was born in New York City, the son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, fashion designer, writer. He is also a descendant, through his mother, of Civil War brevet Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, through his Vanderbilt line, he is a second cousin, once removed, of screenwriter James Vanderbilt. As a baby, he was photographed by Diane Arbus for Harpers Bazaar, at the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on September 17,1970, appearing with his mother. At the age of nine, he appeared on To Tell the Truth as an impostor, from age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macys. Coopers father suffered a series of attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery. Cooper considers his fathers book Families to be sort of a guide on. how he would have wanted me to live my life, and so I feel very connected to him. Coopers older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22,1988, at age 23, Anderson cites Carters suicide for sparking his interest in journalism. Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival, Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate. Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own, Cooper was educated at the Dalton School, a private co-educational university preparatory day school in New York City. At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early and he contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote Africa was a place to forget, Cooper went on to attend Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College, and was inducted into the Manuscript Society, majoring in political science and graduating with a B. A. in 1989. During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency, after Cooper graduated from Yale University, he tried to gain entry-level employment with ABC answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to Channel One, after reporting from Burma, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year to study the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi
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Wilhelmina Cooper
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Wilhelmina Cooper was a Dutch model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967. Born Gertrude Behmenburg in Culemborg, the Netherlands, she was known simply as Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina grew up in Oldenburg, Germany and she moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1954. She became one of the most famous models of the 1950s and 1960s, during her career as a model she was on the cover of 255 magazines. She also holds the record for most covers on American Vogue, according to her obituary in Time magazine, During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman. 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, in 1965 she married Bruce Cooper, former executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1967 they founded Wilhelmina Models, which became the leading model agency alongside Ford Models, years before Elite Model Management. Coopers agency played a role in launching the career of Naomi Sims. Sims began her career in the mid-1960s but despite a breakthrough appearance in the New York Times fashion supplement in 1967. Sims approached Cooper and told her that she would send out copies of the Times supplement to agencies and that Cooper would receive a commission on any work Sims received from this. Within a year, Sims was earning US$1000 a week, in 1968 she appeared on the cover of the Ladies Home Journal, on 1 March 1980, Cooper died of lung cancer at the age of 40 in Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut. Cooper was portrayed by Faye Dunaway in the 1998 movie Gia, which tells the story of Gia Carangi, in American sitcom Ugly Betty, adapted from Colombian telenovela Betty La Fea, the antagonist Wilhelmina Slater is named as a tribute to Cooper. Her nickname, Willy, and the fact that she became a businesswoman in fashion after being a model were attached directly to the character. Wilhelmina Models Wilhelmina Cooper at Find a Grave
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Kate Cordsen
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Kate Cordsen is an American photographer and contemporary artist. She received a BA in the history of art and East Asian Studies from Washington, Cordsen has an MPP from Georgetown University and studied Chinese and Japanese Art History at Harvard University and photography at the International Center of Photography. In the late 1980s Kate Cordsen worked for Ford Models and she walked the runway and did print advertisements for many fashion designers including the Japanese avant-garde artists Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake and Yohji Yamamoto. Cordsen credits this time as a model as both the beginning of her education in photography and as formative in understanding Japanese aesthetics, known for large format landscapes, Cordsen produces ethereal and ambiguous images that evoke ideas of fragmented memories and temporality. Her landscapes are, at first glance, simply meditative, but reveal impassioned and dramatic depths upon second and she often combines 19th century chemical methods with traditional film and digital technologies. Kate Cordsens landscapes are a study of both photography and painting. The final result is that her pieces possess a certain aesthetic that seems attainable only through the act of painting, from 2015, Cordsen has worked exclusively in cyanotype and gum bichromate, two of the earliest forms of photography. Using primarily found objects, she composes her large-format photographs through a process that requires both physical, painterly dynamism, and chemical precision. Kate Cordsens work explores the tension between chance, accident, and control
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Courteney Cox
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Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, producer, and director. Cox also starred in the FX series Dirt and she owns a production company, called Coquette Productions, which was created by Cox and her then-husband David Arquette. Cox also worked as a director on her sitcom Cougar Town, Cox was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of businessman Richard Lewis Cox and his wife Courteney. She has two sisters, Virginia and Dottie, and an older brother, Richard, Jr. Her parents divorced in 1974 and her then married businessman Hunter Copeland. Cox appeared in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteens Dancing in the Dark as the woman pulled onstage at the St. Paul Civic Center to dance with Springsteen. Her early film roles include Masters of the Universe, Cocoon, The Return and she played Jewel Jagger, the hard-as-nails assistant of Larry Burrows, in Mr. Destiny. In 1994, shortly before the debut of the sitcom, Friends, Cox appeared with Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura, Pet Detective and as Jerry Seinfelds girlfriend, Meryl, in the Seinfeld episode, The Wife. In 1995, she was cast in Toad the Wet Sprockets music video, the song is also on the Friends soundtrack. Later in 1994, Cox was asked to audition for the part of Rachel Green on a new sitcom, Friends, she was cast as Monica Geller, instead. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Cox became the highest-paid TV actress of all time, between seasons five and six, Cox married David Arquette, and changed her name to Courteney Cox Arquette. An in-joke reference to this is made in the credits of the episode The One After Vegas. The dedication For Courteney and David, who did get married – a reference to Monica, Cox also appeared in the high-profile Hollywood films, Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3, as reporter Gale Weathers. She met her husband, David Arquette, who played her love interest Dwight Dewey Riley. Both Cox and Arquette reprised their roles from the Scream trilogy in 2011s Scream 4. The film was released in theaters April 15,2011 and her other films include Ace Ventura, Pet Detective with Jim Carrey, The Runner,3000 Miles to Graceland, and The Shrink Is In. In late 2003, Cox and Arquette produced one season of the reality television series Mix It Up, the lifestyle show, which aired on the We cable channel, struggled with low ratings and was not renewed for a second season. A few years later, Cox signed a deal with ABC Studios to star in her own series and she voiced Daisy in the animated film Barnyard
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Yaya DaCosta
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Yaya DaCosta is a Cuban American actress and model. She was the runner-up in Cycle 3 of Americas Next Top Model, in 2015, she began starring in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med as Nurse April Sexton. DaCosta was born on November 15,1982, in Harlem, New York, in addition to English, she can speak Portuguese, French, Spanish, and conversational Japanese. She attended the elite Northfield Mount Hermon School during her school years before attending college where she majored in Africana Studies. On June 26,2012, DaCosta married independent film producer, in September 2013, she gave birth to their son, Sankara. As of November 12,2015, DaCosta has filed for divorce from Alafia, after finishing second on Cycle 3 of Americas Next Top Model, DaCosta went on to have a successful career. DaCosta only appeared once in the two during the competition. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Fructis, Lincoln Townhouse, Oil of Olay, Radioshack, Seda, Sephora, DaCosta began acting in 2005 after guest-starring in an episode of the UPN sitcom Eve. She then starred opposite Rob Brown, Antonio Banderas and Alfre Woodard in the 2006 dance film Take the Lead, DaCosta had supporting roles in the independent films Honeydripper and The Messenger. She appeared in the ABC soap opera All My Children in 2008 as Cassandra Foster, the First Breeze of Summer was presented from 2008 to 2009 by the historic Negro Ensemble Company. In 2009, she had a role as Nico Slater. In 2010, DaCosta had supporting roles in the comedy-drama film The Kids Are All Right, during the same year, she appeared in the magazines Vogue, LOfficiel and on the cover of W. In 2013, she appeared as Carol in the historical drama The Butler, starring Forest Whitaker. DaCosta received high praise for her performance, in 2015, DaCosta began starring in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med as April Sexton, an ED nurse. Yaya Dacosta at the Fashion Model Directory Yaya DaCosta at the Internet Movie Database
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Charlotte Dawson
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Charlotte Dawson was a New Zealand–Australian television personality. She was known in New Zealand for her roles as host of Getaway and her death by suicide attracted Australian-wide news coverage. Dawson grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, after being adopted at birth and she dropped out of high school at age 16 to model in Europe and with Ford Models in New York City. A decade later she relocated to Australia where she became a face on the Australian fashion scene. In 1997, she became beauty and fashion director for Womans Day, while working for Australian agencies Camerons and Priscillas as an agent, she decided to try her hand at TV. She became a researcher at Nine Network and worked on such as Money. Shortly after she became editor for the networks Today program, filing weekly reports on local and international fashion news. Magazines such as Vogue, Elle, She, Dolly, Cleo and Mode tracked Dawsons progress, Dawson returned to Auckland in 2002 where she had presenting roles on TVNZs chat show Hows Life. and Primes Getaway and Charlottes Lists. In 2008, she was a host on FOX8s Australias Next Top Model for the Live Finale of the show, as a last minute replacement for regular host Jodhi Meares. In 2007, she settled out of court with the Womans Day magazine and she also hosted the Foxtel series Runway to L. A. In 2012 she appeared as one of the celebrity contestants, raising money for her chosen charity, august 2012 saw a new period of media unrest for Dawson, following an interview with New Zealands Herald on Sunday about her thoughts on her former home. New Zealand is small, nasty and vindictive, a tiny country at the end of the earth, she said. Dawson was briefly married to Olympic swimmer Scott Miller from 1999 to 2000 and she said her depression began from the time of abortion. Everything Scott had done was leading up to moment and nothing could stand in his way, so it was decided that we would terminate the child. Who needed a developing foetus when a medal was on offer. In 2012, Dawson was admitted to St Vincents Hospital in Sydney after attempting to commit due to a much publicised battle with Twitter trolls. Dawson was rushed to hospital after being found in a state by a former Australias Next Top Model finalist. Dawson was made the target of an online campaign of harassment in part due to her involvement with an anti-cyber-bullying initiative Community Brave
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Kristine Debell
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Kristine DeBell is an American actress. Born in Chatham, New York, DeBell began her career as a model with Ford Models. She later moved into acting, debuting as the star of an X-rated film version of Alices Adventures in Wonderland at the age of 22 and she was on the April 1976 cover of Playboy, photographed by Suze Randall. Subsequently, she moved to film and television. Her most prominent film roles included playing A. L. a camp counselor, alongside Bill Murray in the comedy Meatballs and Jackie Chans girlfriend in The Big Brawl. She appeared in a number of television pilots through the 1980s, individual episodes and series, including The Young and the Restless, B. J. and the Bear and Night Court. Kristine DeBell at the Internet Movie Database Kristine DeBell at the Internet Adult Film Database Kristine DeBell at the Adult Film Database Meatballs movie website
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Lana Del Rey
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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer, songwriter, and model. Her music has been noted for its style, its preoccupation with themes of tragic romance and melancholia. Del Rey received further recognition after her major-label debut Born to Die peaked at two on the United States charts and was the fifth best-selling album of 2012. Three of the EPs tracks were featured in her short film Tropico, in 2014, Del Rey released her third studio album, Ultraviolence, which received positive critical and commercial reception, it became her first number-one record in the United States. In 2015, following a North American tour with Courtney Love and Grimes, Del Rey released her studio album. It also received critical and commercial response, the album had the fourth highest first week sales by a female artist in 2015. Del Rey is set to release her studio album, titled Lust for Life. She has one sister, Caroline Grant, and one brother. Her paternal grandfather, Robert England Grant, Sr. was a Kidder, Peabody & Co. investment banker, a president for Plough, Inc and Textron. Del Rey grew up in rural Lake Placid, New York, and attended a Catholic elementary school and for one year and she began singing in her church choir when she was a child, where she was the cantor. At age fifteen, she was sent to Kent School by her parents to deal with her rampant alcohol abuse, her uncle, before becoming a singer, Del Rey wanted to be a poet. As a child, her father wrote country songs for personal enjoyment, while her mother was interested in singing, during this time, Del Reys uncle taught her how to play guitar, and she realized could probably write a million songs with those six chords. Shortly after, she began writing songs and performing in nightclubs around the city under various names such as Sparkle Jump Rope Queen and Lizzy Grant, I was always singing, but didnt plan on pursuing it seriously, Del Rey said. The following fall, she enrolled at Fordham University where she majored in philosophy, Del Rey said she chose to study the subject because it bridged the gap between God and science. I was interested in God and how technology could bring us closer to finding out where we came from, according to Del Rey, she had trouble making friends in boarding school and college, and said, that was when my musical experience began. I kind of people for myself. After college, she moved to Brooklyn, where she resided for four years. On April 25,2005, a compact disc was registered under Elizabeth Woolridge Grant with the United States Copyright Office
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Carmen Dell'Orefice
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Carmen DellOrefice is an American model and actress. She is known within the industry for being the worlds oldest working model as of the Spring/Summer 2012 season. She was on the cover of Vogue at the age of 15 and has been modelling ever since and her daily motto is to enjoy herself, at no-one elses expense. DellOrefice was born in New York City to parents of Italian and Hungarian descent and they had an unstable relationship characterized by frequent break ups and reconciliations. DellOrefice lived in homes or with other relatives during her parents clashes. At the age of 13, while riding a bus to ballet class and her test photos, taken at Jones Beach, were a “flop” according to DellOrefice. In 1946, her godfather introduced her to Vogue and the 15-year-old signed a contract for $7.50 an hour. She became a model of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld who shot her first Vogue cover in 1946. She appears in the December 15,1947 issue of US Vogue as Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Cinderella along with model Dorian Leigh, actors Ray Bolger, DellOrefice and her mother struggled financially, and her modeling income was not enough to sustain the family. With no telephone, Vogue had to send runners to their apartment to let DellOrefice know about modeling jobs and she roller-skated to assignments to save on bus fares. She was so malnourished that famed fashion photographers Horst P. Horst and Cecil Beaton had to pin back dresses, DellOrefice and her mother were accomplished seamstresses and made extra money making clothes. One of their customers was Dorian Leigh, DellOrefice later became best friends with Leighs younger sister, model Suzy Parker. Together they were bridesmaids at Leighs second wedding to Roger W. Mehle in 1948, in 1947, DellOrefices rate was raised to $10–$25 per hour. She appeared on the October 1947 cover of Vogue, at age 16 and she was also on the November 1948 cover of Vogue. She worked with the most famous photographers of the era, including Irving Penn, Gleb Derujinsky, Francesco Scavullo, Norman Parkinson. DellOrefice was photographed by Melvin Sokolsky for Harpers Bazaar in 1960, the image titled Carmen Las Meninas has been collected internationally. Sokolsky also photographed her for the classic Vanity Fair lingerie campaign in which DellOrefice obscures her face with her hand and she was painter Salvador Dalís muse. Despite her early successes, modeling agent Eileen Ford declined to represent her and her thin frame required medical attention, Doctors prescribed shots to start puberty, and her new curves brought her work in catalogs modeling lingerie at $300 per hour
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Janice Dickinson
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Janice Doreen Dickinson is an American model, photographer, author and talent agent. Initially notable as a model, she has been described by herself. One of the most successful models of the 1970s and 1980s and she opened a modeling agency in 2005, which was documented in the reality television series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Jennie Marie. Her mother was of Polish descent and her father was of Scottish and Irish ancestry and she was raised in Hollywood, Florida with her elder sister, Alexis, who became a real estate agent, and her younger sister, Debbie, who also became a model. Dickinson has been open about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered as a child and teenager, and how her father used to sexually abuse one of her sisters. Of her childhood with her rageoholic pedophile of a father, Dickinson stated, Because I wouldnt give in and let him have sex with me, I was told that I looked like a boy and wouldnt amount to anything. In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model after winning a competition called Miss High Fashion Model. At a time when blue-eyed blondes dominated the scene, Dickinson was turned down several times by modeling agents, including Eileen Ford. She was discovered by the fashion photographer Jacques Silberstein when his girlfriend, actress Lorraine Bracco, Wilhelmina Cooper became Dickinsons first agent. Her modeling pursuits led her to Paris, France, where her exotic looks secured her reputation within the European fashion industry. She returned to New York City in 1978, and spent the several years working steadily, earning $2,000 per day. Dickinson eventually signed with Ford Models to land a major ad campaign for a new JVC camera, Dickinson, who had not forgotten Fords initial rejection, was intent on revenge. She soon became one of twenty Ford models to defect to John Casablancass upstart Elite Model Management, by the 1980s, Dickinson was considered a supermodel, as she possessed the kind of name and face recognition that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve. She has appeared on the cover of Vogue 37 times, Dickinson looked for ways to sustain her relevance within the fashion industry as she aged, becoming a fashion photographer. In 2008, she launched her own line on HSN. In 2009, Dickinson recorded a song entitled Crazy, which was written, while Dickinson claims to have coined the term supermodel in 1979, and to be the first supermodel, the word already was known in the 1940s. The writer Judith Cass used the term in 1942 in her Chicago Tribune article Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show, in 1943, author Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in his book So You Want to Be a Model
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Dovima
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Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba, later known as Dorothy Horan, and best known as Dovima, was an American model during the 1950s. Born in New York City, Dovima was discovered on a sidewalk in New York by an editor at Vogue, the gown was the first evening dress designed for Christian Dior by his new assistant, Yves Saint-Laurent. Dovima was reputed to be the model of her time. She had a role as an aristocratic-looking, but empty-headed, fashion model with a Jackson Heights whine, Dovima gave birth to a daughter named Allison on July 14,1958, in Manhattan. Allisons father is Dovimas second husband, Allan Murray and she died of liver cancer on May 3,1990 at the age of 62
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Karen Elson
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Karen Jill Elson is an English model, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Elson was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and attended North Chadderton School as a child and she began working as a model as a teenager and was discovered at age 16 by Debra Burns, the owner of Boss Model Management in Manchester. Elsons success came when Steven Meisel shot her for the cover of Italian Vogue on her 18th birthday and she has walked the runways of many top designers including Marc Jacobs, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, YSL, Alexander McQueen, Dior and Gucci. She has appeared in campaigns for dozens of designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Paul Gaultier, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Christian Dior, Burberry. Her list of covers include multiple international editions of Vogue as well as W, Dazed & Confused, Numéro, British Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Lula, Foam Magazine. In 1998 she won the title of Model of the Year at the VH1 Fashion Awards, photographed by Steven Meisel, she was presented on the September 2004 cover of American Vogue as one of the Models of the Moment. In 2005, Elson won the British Fashion Award for Best Model, in September 2008 Elson was on the cover of British Vogue – shot by Nick Knight – as Fashions Red Queen. It was then announced that Elson was the new face of British department store John Lewis for autumn/winter 2008/09, in the autumn of 2009 she appeared on billboards internationally for H&M. In 2010, American fashion brand St. John announced that Elson would be replacing Angelina Jolie as the new face of their company, in 2011 she was replaced by Kate Winslet. For the Tom Ford 2009 spring eyewear advertising campaigns Elson and male model Jon Kortajarena were photographed, for the first time, Elson is currently the face of YSL Opium perfume. She appears in the autumn/winter 2010/11 ad campaign of Louis Vuitton along with Natalia Vodianova and Christy Turlington and she was shot by Mert and Marcus for Roberto Cavallis autumn 2011 campaign. Karen appears in the Steven Meisel autumn 2011 Lanvin campaign, the accompanying promotional video shows her dancing with Raquel Zimmerman to Pit Bulls I Know You Want Me. Karen appears with her twin sister Kate Elson in the 2011 H&M Holiday campaign. She is also the face of Banana Republics 2011 Holiday Collection, Elson has appeared in many short films and videos, including the music video for the White Stripess Blue Orchid, directed by Floria Sigismondi. Elson has been featured in commercials for Kose cosmetics and she has also appeared in the short film Lay Down Lean, a project by the experimental filmmaking team the Belles of the Black Diamond Field. Lay Down Lean, by the Belles of the Black Diamond Field. Elson has contributed to Nick Knights fashion site SHOWstudio. com since 2002 and she also contributed to Knights project Moving Fashion with a black and white video of herself in a sequined gown, perched upon a swing. The images were accompanied by Elson playing the autoharp and singing a verse of Marlene Dietrichs Falling in Love Again, on 9 May 2011, it was announced that Elson has designed her own line of shoes, bags and jewellery for fashion brand Nine West. The items became available in the autumn of 2011, in August 2012, Elson was one of eight British models chosen to walk during a segment at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
