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Adriana Lima for Vogue 1999 “Pool Parade” by Ellen Von Unwerth
I love this photo. My fav are the ladies expression in the background. Priceless. One of the best thus far.
Read MoreBook “Skin Deep”
Barbara Summers’ is a former Ford model. Summers traveled to three continents to do research for this book.
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Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage
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 […]
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Model: Wanakee
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 […]
Read MoreA Few Exotic Victoria’s Secret Models
http://youtu.be/Oh6ROu6eC-8
*Tyra Banks
*Selita Ebanks
*Naomi Campbell
*Emanuela de Paula
*Oluchi Onweagba
*Chanel Iman
*Sessilee Lopez
*Noemie Lenoir
*Ajuma Nasenyana
*Arlenis Sosa Peña
*Aminata Niaria
*Jessica White
*Lyndsey Scott
Raquel Welch
She is Spanish Bolivian and English Actress, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She entered beauty contests as a teenager, and worked as a model, waitress, and television weather-girl before making her film debut in 1964. Launched as a sex symbol after her scantily clad appearance in One Million Years BC (1966), she was rarely challenged by later […]
Read MorePaula Patton
She is African and German American or Dutch Paula’s family lived across the street from the 20th Century Fox lot when she was growing up and she was a fan of films from her earliest years. Her mother, who also appreciated good films, was a schoolteacher, and her father was a lawyer. Study film at […]
Read MoreThe Human Stain: Wentworth Earl Miller III
The American actor is the star of the Television series Prison Break, playing Michael Scofield. He was born to a father of African-American, Jamaican, English, German, Jewish and Cherokee ancestry and a mother of Russian, French, Dutch, Lebanese and Syrian descent. Regarding his ethnicity and his experience with racism, he made the comment on an interview: “My […]
Read MoreRita Hayworth aka Margarita Carmen Cansino
Before and After Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino‘s daughter Margarita trained as a dancer from early childhood. At age 12, mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo’s stage […]
Read MoreBright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that […]
Read MoreSalma Hayek aka Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez
Is of Spanish and Lebanese descent, and fluent in Arabic, Spanish, Portugese and English. Studied international relations & drama at college in Mexico City. Father was born in Lebanon and came to Mexico to start a small business where he met her mother. Her Lebanese-Mexican father was a rich businessman and her mother was an […]
Read MoreGasLand Documentary
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”.
Read MoreFlash Dance actress Jennifer Beals
She is African-American and Irish Jennifer Sue Beals was born in Chicago on December 19, 1963 as the second child of Jeanne Anderson and Alfred Beals. Her mother, an Irish-Catholic retired elementary schoolteacher, still lives in Chicago. Her African-American father owned a grocery store on the South Side of Chicago where she spent the first […]
Read MoreCHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN is A world famous Luxury Shoe Designer
His Parents/Family are from Cameroon, Africa. Mr. Louboutin was born in France. Celebrated for his vertiginously high stilettos with their signature lacquer-red soles, Louboutin has achieved cult status with celebrities as well as fashionistas. His eclectic and exotic designs, often incorporating feathers, beads, and sequins, are a constant and dramatic presence on the red carpet […]
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Last Call at the Oasis – Water Documentary Movie
Firmly establishing the urgency of the global water crisis as the central issue facing our world this century, this documentary illuminates the vital role water plays in our lives, exposes the defects in the current system and shows communities already struggling with its ill-effects. Featuring activist Erin Brockovich, respected water experts including Peter Gleick, Jay […]
Read Morethe business of being born
Better to give birth to your baby at the hospital…or in your home? Co-producer/star Ricki Lake initiated the filming of this eye-opening documentary–during which director Abby Epstein happened to become pregnant–to contrast the experiences of women who deliver their children in a hospital environment with those who complete their pregnancies at home with the assistance […]
Read MoreBeauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop
She is Nigerian and Irish. Iggy Pop has been dating Ms. Alu for at least 10 years.They are now married. Nina had originally planned to go into broadcast journalism. Iggy is a songwriter who met Nina when she was a flight attendant.
Read MoreKeeping Up Appearances
This Show is one of my favorite UK shows, it’s absolutely hilarious and entertaining. My mother and I used to watch this consistently. Storyline Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced “bouquet”) continually looks for opportunities to climb the social ladder, though she’s wedged on a rung just below her sister Violet (whose house has a swimming pool, sauna, and […]
Read MoreLiu Wen photographed by Caroline Knopf
Liu Wen is a Chinese fashion model represented by The Society Management and based in New York City. She is the first model of East Asian descent to walk the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, the first spokes model of East Asian descent for Estée Lauder and the first Asian model to ever make Forbes magazine’s annual highest-paid models list. Liu Wen’s modeling career started at a modeling camp to help improve […]
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Brazilian Model: Adriana Lima
Nationality & Country of origin: Brazil Ethnicity: Swiss, African, Japanese and Native American Indian. Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian-born model is of mixed ethnicity. In an interview on Fashion TV she stated that she is of Swiss, African and Native American heritage. While on another interview she mentioned that she also has Japanese heritage. […]
Read MoreGracie Carvahlo
Nationality and Place of birth: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil Meet Gracie Carvalho, the newest Brazilian beauty turning heads and stealing shows all over the world. After debuting at the Rio and São Paulo fall fashion weeks in January of 2008, this 20-year-old newcomer caught the eyes of casting agents, and by the following June she was […]
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