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Model: Peggy Dillard – Vintage

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 […]

Model: Wanakee

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 […]

Raquel Welch

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 […]

Beauty Nina Alu and Iggy Pop

Beauty 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.  

Wonder Woman “Lynda Carter”

Wonder Woman “Lynda Carter”

She is Mexican and Caucasian. She is quoted saying; I grew up in a house filled with music. My mother, who is of Mexican and Spanish descent, used to sing to my English-Irish father, and between the two of them I was introduced to a diverse array of music… Source: http://www.lyndacarter.com/lyndaherstory.html Her daughter Jessica Altman    […]

Liu Wen photographed by Caroline Knopf

Liu 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 […]

Brazilian Model: Adriana Lima

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. […]

Gracie Carvahlo

Gracie 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 […]