- Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 - July 15, 1997) was an accomplished Italian designer of both clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol, Ancient Roman and Greek art as well as modern abstract art; he is considered one of the most colorful and talented designers of the late 20th century. Gianni was the founder of famous fashion tag Versace. The first boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. - Santo Versace
Santo Versace is the president and co-chief executive officer of Gianni Versace SpA, based in Milan, Italy. He was born on December 16, 1944, in Reggio Calabria to Antonio Versace, a wholesaler, and Francesca Olandese, a dress maker and shop owner. By age six, Versace joined his father and continued to work after school and summers with him until he attended university. When not in school, he helped care for his younger sister, Donatella Versace. - Dick Versace
Dick Versace (born April 16 1940 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina) is a former basketball coach and National Basketball Association executive. He is also the first person of Puerto Rican descent to have coached an NBA team. His parents were Colonel Humbert Joseph Versace and Marie Teresa Rios, a famed Puerto Rican author. The 1960s television sitcom, "The Flying Nun" was based on one of her books. He has coached both at the collegiate level and in the NBA. - Humbert Roque Versace
Captain Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace (July 2, 1937-September 26, 1965) was a United States Army officer of Puerto Rican-Italian descent who was awarded the United States' highest military decoration - the Medal of Honor - for his heroic actions while a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War. He was the first member of the U.S. Army to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions performed in Southeast Asia while in captivity. - Allegra Versace
Allegra Versace (born in Milan on June 30, 1986) is the daughter of designer Donatella Versace and ex-male fashion model Paul Beck. - Donatella Versace
Donatella Versace (b.1955) is a prosperous fashion designer from Italy, also responsible for establishing the Versace imperium and the owner of a great deal (about one fifth)of the overall capital of the company. Presently, she is the CEO of the Versace corporation and manages the fashion line. - Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich /Milica Jovović, Ukrainian: Мілла Йовович/Mіlla Jovovič (Born Milica Nataša Jovović on December 17, 1975)) is an Ukrainian-born supermodel, actress, musician, singer, and fashion designer. Jovovich has been described by Paul W.S. Anderson, director of her film "Resident Evil", … - Caroline Trentini
Caroline Aparecida Trentini is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Panambi, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Trentini is the youngest daughter of Lourdes and the late Jacó Trentini, who died when she was one year old. Her older sisters are Franciele and Élen. Although she had never worked before, Trentini's mother got a job as a public employee when her husband died and raised her daughters single-handedly. - Irina Lazareanu
Irina Lazareanu is a Canadian supermodel. Romanian-born Lazareanu got her ‘big break’ through her acquaintance with supermodel Kate Moss (who at the time was the girlfriend of notoriously drug-troubled Pete Doherty). - Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian supermodel. Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look Contest when she was just 13. The following year she moved from Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling career. In 1999, at the age of 16, she appeared in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue. - Raquel Zimmermann
Raquel Zimmermann (born May 6, 1983 in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian supermodel of German origin. She attended a modeling school at the age of 14 and soon afterwards made her way to Japan. She modeled for a number of years but it was only in recent years that her icy look really became noted and appreciated by fashion designers. Raquel has campaigned for such brands as: Chanel, Prada, Balenciaga, Hermes, Gucci, Dior, Chloe, Max Mara, Versace, … - Natasha Poly
Natasha Polevshchikova, generally shortened to Natasha Poly (born July 12, 1985), is a Russian supermodel. Poly was first discovered after attending a model search competition in Moscow, which she consequently won. Her professional modeling career started in 2004. Poly has appeared in many ad campaigns including Gucci, Lanvin, D&G, Louis Vuitton, Roberto Cavalli, Sonia Rykiel, Nine West, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana. - Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes (born January 23, 1985) is a Dutch supermodel. She was born in the town of Oostermeer, in Friesland, The Netherlands and is signed by DNA Models. Kroes has made the covers of "Time", "Vogue", "Harper's Bazaar", and "Numero". She also appears regularly in the Victoria's Secret catalog and was featured in their fashion show in 2005 and 2006. Kroes has also been in campaigns by Gucci, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Escada, … - Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958), better known as Madonna, is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. She is noted for her ambitious music videos and stage performances as well as using political, sexual, and religious themes in her work. In 2000, The Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time, … - Erin Wasson
Erin Wasson grew up in Irving, Texas, wanting to be either a basketball star or a model. The decision was made for her when she won the Fashion!Dallas Kim Dawson model search during her junior year in high school. From there, she landed jobs in local advertisements, and soon went on to bigger things. After appearing in ads for Gucci, she was involved in her first campaign for Dolce & Gabbana in 2002. - Eugenia Volodina
Eugenia Volodina (born September 17, 1984 in Kazan, Russia) is a Russian supermodel. Volodina's modeling career began in 2000 when she was fifteen years old. As her first step into the modeling industry, she attended an open call at one of Russia's most prestigious casting agencies. She was soon sent to Paris, where Volodina began to establish her career. Increased attention came in 2002 when fashion photographer Steven Meisel featured her in Italian "Vogue". - Bridget Hall
Bridget Hall is an American supermodel. She was born on December 12, 1977 in Springdale, Arkansas. At the age of 10, she was modeling in Dallas, Texas where she was living in the suburb of Farmers Branch, Texas, where she briefly attended R. L. Turner High School. Shortly after she moved with her mother Donna Hall to New York City to pursue her modeling career. - Behati Prinsloo
Behati Prinsloo {born May 16, 1989) is a Namibian supermodel. She has walked fashion shows for Prada, Paul Smith, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Versace, and many others. Although Prinsloo is from Namibia, she is Caucasian and does not appear African at all in her looks. Prinsloo is mainly represented by Storm Models in London, and D Management Group in Milan. - Bianca Balti
Bianca Balti (born May 25, 1984) is an Italian supermodel. She was born in Lodi, in the Lombardy region of Italy. At the beginning of her career she was rejected by numerous agencies, such as Elite Model Management, for being "too average and common" looking. In spite of that she did not abandon her dream of becoming a model and was discovered about a year ago in a supermarket where she was jobbing to finance her studies by Bruno Paulette, a scout of Modelschule. - Inguna Butane
Inguna Butane, sometimes simply known as Inguna, is a Latvian model. She has been in ad campaigns for Armani Jeans, Bergdorf Goodman, Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, L'Oréal, mark, Neiman Marcus, and Victoria's Secret. Her runway work includes Fendi, Alexander McQueen, Viktor and Rolf, Yohji Yamamoto, Alice Roi, Baby Phat, Belstaff, Gucci, Versace, and Oscar de la Renta. She is currently signed with Mother New York. - Caroline Winberg
Caroline Winberg (born March 27, 1985) is a Swedish supermodel. Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna, Sweden as the daughter of Thomas and Camila. Caroline enjoyed a relatively normal childhood and was something of a tomboy in her youth. In fact, it was en route to soccer training that a scout spotted the 15-year-old teenager and suggested that she consider a career in modeling. Though Caroline always harbored dreams of becoming a professional soccer player, … - Dewi Driegen
Dewi Driegen (born in Amsterdam, Holland on September 15, 1982), is a Dutch model. She is a quarter Indonesian from her mother's side. Driegen was discovered at the age of thirteen by an Elite Model Management Amsterdam modeling scout but decided to stay in school. After her 18th birthday though, she began modeling in Paris and Milan in shows such as Valentino and Versace. - Jacquetta Wheeler
Jacquetta Wheeler is an English supermodel. Her father, Stuart Wheeler, worked as an entrepreneur, and mother Tessa was a successful photographer. As a child, Wheeler lived a comfortable, moderately affluent lifestyle with her family in England. At the age of fifteen, she was discovered by Italian fashion designer Stephan Jansen. Jansen asked Wheeler to go to Milan and appear in his fashion show. - Iselin Steiro
Iselin Vollen Steiro (born 15 September, 1986) is a Norwegian supermodel. She grew up in Harstad in the northern part of Norway. Iselin was discovered in 1999 while Christmas shopping with her parents in London. In fact, she was scouted "twice" on the same trip. The first scout was turned down by her mother who answered "over my dead body"," when asked if Iselin would be interested in modeling. The second scout sent a letter to a local agency in Norway, … - Tanya Dziahileva
Tanya Dziahileva, is a Belarusian top model known for "elfish" and "alien" looks. Since her first major season (spring 2006), she has been in shows such as Chanel, Dior, Hermès, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Versace, Prada, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein. She has appeared on the cover of Russian Vogue and, to date, has appeared in ads for brands such as Christian Dior, Lanvin, Yves Saint-Laurent and Jean-Paul Gaultier. - Tasha Tilberg
Tasha Tilberg is a Canadian supermodel. She was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Tilberg has appeared in advertisements for Alberta Ferretti, Bloomingdale's, Comma, Fendi, Esprit, Gucci, Mango, Missoni, Moschino, Versace and Versus and she has walked in fashion shows for, among others, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Anna Molinari, Balenciaga, Blumarine, Dolce & Gabbana, DKNY, Fendi, Versace, Genny, Iceberg, Jil Sander, Les Copains, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Missoni, Moschino, … - Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian supermodel. Tavares was born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, and she was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year." A year later she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career. In 1998, at the age of 17, she was already appearing on the covers of fashion magazines - "L'Officiel Paris", … - Kristen McMenamy
Kristen McMenamy (born December 13, 1966 in Easton, Pennsylvania) is a supermodel. She is famous for her unconventional androgynous gender identity. Her modelling career mainly spanned the years 1985 to 1998, when she worked for many of the world's top designers and international fashion houses (such as Chanel, Valentino and Versace). She has also worked with many of the top fashion phographers, including Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, and Karl Lagerfeld. - Audrey Marnay
Audrey Marnay (born October 14, 1980 in Chartres, France) is a supermodel. Audrey Marnay began modeling at the age of fifteen. From then on she appeared on many magazine covers such as Vogue and Elle, and in advertisements from Versace to Calvin Klein. She is known for her natural, spontaneity and cute freckled face. She's been photographed by the greatest ones, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Paolo Roversi and Peter Lindbergh. - Beverly Peele
Beverly Peele is an African American supermodel. She was a top fashion model in the 80s and 90s. When she rose to fame, she was nicknamed "Baby Naomi". Peele has graced over 250 magazine covers worldwide including Vogue, Mademoiselle, ELLE and Cosmopolitan. Peele has walked for all the top fashion designers, and has been featured in ads for the likes of Ralph Lauren, Donna Karen, Versace and Prada, among others. In an episode of "The Tyra Banks Show", … - Bruno Santos
Bruno Santos is considered one of the emerging model sensations that hail from Brazil in the recent years. He is the only male model who was selected to carry out two campaigns simultaneously for two competing fashion houses, Versace and Giorgio Armani. Bruno grew up with three brothers and one sister, and held many jobs since the age 12, including construction and farmwork. He was an engineering student before he became a model, … - Gianne Albertoni
Gianne Albertoni is a Brazilian model. She was discovered as a model when she was only 13 by the photographer Sérgio Duarte. Four months later in Milan, she took the big fashion shows by storm like Versace, Armani, Prada, Fiorucci. It caused a scandal with the established models like Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell because of her youthful age and height. (13 years and 180cm.) At the age of 18 Gianne was the very first Terra Girl. - Querelle Jansen
Querelle Jansen is a Dutch supermodel. Her real name is Lisette Jansen; Querelle is her professional name, chosen by an agent who had been looking for a model to name after her favourite literary character, Jean Genet's Georges Querelle. Querelle's androgynous features and austere aura have landed her a series of editorials with several mainstream publications, including "Vogue" Italia and Paris, "Numéro", "i-D", "Mixt(e)", … - Antonio D'Amico
Antonio D'Amico (born 1959 in southern Italy, raised in Milan) has been a model and an Italian fashion designer. His life so far has been marked by his relationship with the world famous designer Gianni Versace. They met in 1982 and eventually embarked on a long-term relationship that lasted 11 years, until Versace's untimely death. During that time he worked as designer for the Versace sports line. - Mariana Weickert
Mariana Weickert (born in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, 17 February, 1982) is a Brazilian supermodel of German ascent, affiliated to Ford Models. She regularly models in cities such as Paris, Milan, London and New York, for such high fashion houses such as Alexander McQueen, Sonia Rykiel, Bottega Veneta, Marc Jacobs, Ana Molinari, Narciso Rodrigues, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Versace and Armani, among others. Weickert, has also made the cover pictures in many magazines, … - Hana Soukupová
Hana Soukupová is a Czech supermodel. Soukupová was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). Because of her height, she began playing basketball for local team. Soukupová has begun to work as a model in Prague when she was 13. Ever since then Hana has become one of the world's most busiest models. Soukupová is currently ranked number fifteen on models.com. - Heather Stewart-Whyte
Heather Stewart-Whyte (born 25 September 1969) is a British supermodel. Born in England, Stewart-Whyte had some success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She garnered several runway shows for Versace, Armani, Saint-Laurent, and Lagerfeld. She also appeared several times for Victoria's Secret. Heather also landed several magazine covers, such as "Vogue Paris", and the UK editions of "Elle" and "Marie Claire". - Chotiros Suriyawong
Chotiros "Amy" Suriyawong is a Thai actress and university student. During the 2007 Subhanahongsa Awards on February 17, Chotiros wore a revealing black dress that attracted media attention, proved to be controversial and resulted in Chotiros being disciplined by her university. The ankle length dress had a revealing 3 inch wide front slit that started at her left hip and curved upward to her cleavage exposing the left half of Chotiros's body. - Małgosia Bela
Małgosia Bela is a Polish fashion model and actress. Bela quickly became a successful runway and editorial model in the late nineties, appearing on the covers of many international editions of "Vogue", including "Vogue" Italia and "Vogue" Paris. Lanvin, Valentino, Jil Sander, and Versace enlisted her in their advertising campaigns. With spring 2001 as her final significant catwalk season, Bela prompted instead for an acting career, … - Kate Nauta
Kate or Katie Nauta (born in Salem, Oregon, on April 29, 1982) is a fashion model and actress. She grew up in Woodburn, Oregon, where she lived until 2000. Nauta started modelling at age 15. At 17 she was the US winner of the Elite Model Look contest, and is now managed by Mode Models International. She has modelled for Versace (Sport and Versus), L'Oreal, DKNY, and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. as well as doing advertisements for, among others, Motorola.
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