Friday, October 10, 2008

Cindy Crawford




Cynthia Ann "Cindy" Crawford
was born on February 20th, 1966. Cindy is an American model and actress. She was discovered at 16 years old by a newspaper photographer during her summer job. The photo and the positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. She entered the John Casablancas Look of the Year contest and was the runner up.


From 1989 to 1995, Cindy Crawford host the MTV's House of Style. In the mid-1990s Crawford starred in famous Pepsi advertising. In 1995 Crawford took her first movie role in Fair Game. The film was fail with expenses of $50 million and $11 million income. Cindy had several other minor acting jobs. But none of them are commercially or critically successful.

Crawford is 5ft 9" tall, she has with brown hair and brown eyes. During the 1980s and 1990s, Cindy Crawford was one of the most popular supermodels, she was known as "Baby Gia" and then appear on magazine covers, runways, and in fashion campaigns.

In July, 1988, she pose nude for Playboy magazine, photographed by Herb Ritts. In October 1998, Crawford appear again in Playboy for a second times with more revealing her nude pictorial.

source: wikipedia

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Linda Evangelista


Linda Evangelista was born to Italian parents and raised in a traditional Catholic family. She wanted to become a model when she was 12 years old. Evangelista got into the modeling industry when she was discovered by Miss Teen Niagara Contest.


Linda Evangelista moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management. Then she moved to Paris. She also appeared in music videos with George Michael.

Evangelista is one of true supermodels that changed the face of fashion in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Along with Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. They are friends that was affectionately dubbed "The Trinity" and is commonly credited as responsible for sparking supermodel mania. The Trinity pushed for better wages for models and for better projects and subsequently. Evangelista was called the founder of the supermodel.

from: wikipedia