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Yamila Diaz-Rahi

Yamila Diaz-Rahi has modeled extensively in her native Argentina and also in Europe. Her hyphenated last name reflects her heritage: Her father is Lebanese and Spanish, and her mother Spanish. Diaz-…

Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington is the 5'10" model best known for looking gorgeous and pensive in a long-running series of Calvin Klein ads that began in the late 1980s. The ads made her an international…

Claudia Schiffer

Model Claudia Schiffer was one of the best-known blondes in the world for a time in the 1990s. Like Anna Nicole Smith, Schiffer got her first American exposure as a Big Blonde in glossy print ads…

Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista was the hottest high-fashion model around in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when she was frequently on the cover of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. Linda Evangelista's…

Lauren Hutton

Name at birth: Mary Lawrence HuttonLauren Hutton was one of the first "supermodels," a cover girl and cosmetics spokeswoman since the 1960s who is instantly recognized by her gap-toothed smile. In…

Selita Ebanks

Selita Ebanks is something of a rarity: a supermodel born not in Brazil or Germany but in the Cayman Islands. Ebanks grew up on Walker's Road in the capital city of George Town. She began modelling…

Kelly Brook

Name at birth: Kelly Anne ParsonsKelly Brook is a model and television personality from the United Kingdom whose brief 1999 stint on the morning TV show The Big Breakfast propelled her into the world…

Calvin Klein

Fashion designer Calvin Klein is particularly known for his jeans and and for his many provocative underwear advertisements. Klein graduated from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964…

Alessandra Ambrosio

A lithe brunette with a signature navel piercing, Alessandra Ambrosio was one of the many Brazilian models to hit it big internationally in the late 1990s. Alessandra Ambrosio began taking modeling…

Cheryl Tiegs

Cheryl Tiegs was perhaps the most famous American model of the 1970s. A blue-eyed honey blonde with sporty good looks, Tiegs debuted on the cover of Glamour at age 17, and later appeared on the…