John Casablancas, the brash upstart who transformed the modeling business in the late 1970s when he founded the Elite agency and turned its young beauties — including Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bundchen and Naomi Campbell — into celebrities, died July 20 in Rio de Janeiro. He was 70.
Mr. Casablancas, who lived in Miami, had cancer, said his executive assistant, Lorraine Caggiano.
When Mr. Casablancas ventured into the modeling business in the early 1970s, the most influential agents were Eileen Ford and Wilhelmina Cooper, who took an old-school approach that included providing chaperones for their models and tucking them into bed at a reasonable hour. Read More...
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$2 Million Jon Scheyer Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Jonathan James "Jon" Scheyer (born August 24, 1987) is an American former basketball player, currently an assistant coach of the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team. Scheyer led his high school team to an Illinois state basketball championship as a high school All American, and was one of the starters on the 2009–10 Duke Blue Devils that won the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship, as a college All American. Read More...
Kim Won Joong never thought of becoming a model when he first started high school. But little did the boy know, Kim would be the first Asian model, not even male but ‘The First’ of the Asian heritage to grace the runway of Prada.
Now a model and a designer, Won Joong, has undoubtedly come a long way from his hometown in Busan, South Korea. With his godly figure and impeccable fashion taste, the Asian model has definitely marked the fashion scene. Read More...
