| Linda Evangelista |
Linda Evangelista, August 12, 2004. |
| Date of birth |
May 10, 1965 (1965-05-10) (age 44) |
| Place of birth |
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada |
| Height |
5 ft 9.5 in (1.77 m) |
| Hair color |
Dark brown |
| Eye color |
Blue-green |
| Measurements |
86.5-61-89 (EU); 34-24-35 (US)[1] |
| Weight |
55 kg (121 lbs) |
| Dress size |
36-38 (EU); 6 (US) |
| Shoe size |
41 (EU); 10 (US); 8 (UK); 25½ (JP) |
| Agency |
DNA Model Management (mother agency) |
Linda Evangelista (born May 10, 1965) is a Canadian model.
Early life
Evangelista was born to Italian-Canadian parents and was raised in a working-class, traditional Roman Catholic family in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, where she attended Denis Morris secondary school. [2] She knew she wanted to become a model when she was 12 years old. Evangelista got into the modelling industry when she was discovered by a talent agent at the 1978 Miss Teen Niagara Contest.
Career
Evangelista later moved to New York City and signed with Elite Model Management there. She then moved to Paris, France, to further her career. She also appeared in music videos with George Michael.
Evangelista uttered the quote, "We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day"[3] (often misquoted as: "We don't get out of bed for less than..." or "I don't get out of bed for less than...") Spoken in Vogue (1990) to Jonathan van Meter, talking about money and how she and a few other models were calling the shots and changing the game.
In the late 1980s, she cut all her hair off to brandish a little-boy-style haircut and was promptly cancelled from all the important runway shows that season. This was the first of many dramatic hairstyle changes. Within months, she appeared on magazine covers everywhere and many women emulated the hairstyle.
In 2007, she signed a multiple-year exclusive contract with the cosmetics company L'Oreal Paris. It was announced in early 2008 that she would be featured in the Prada Fall 2008 campaign seen in magazines internationally.[4]
She is signed to DNA Model Management in New York City, and Models 1 in London.
Miscellaneous
- Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld once said of her, “There is not another model in the world as professional as she is.” He also said, when comparing models, that Evangelista was the “top of the tops”.
- In 1990 and 1992, she appeared in George Michael's music videos Freedom '90 and Too Funky.
- In 1996 she won the VH1 Fashion Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
- In 2005 she was honoured as a World Style Icon at the Women's World Award held in Germany.
- When she is not on the catwalk she is an advocate for AIDS and breast cancer awareness. She has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.
- In 2005 New York-based AID for AIDS honoured Linda with its annual HERO Award for her commitment in helping to eradicate the disease throughout the world.
- In August 2007, Evangelista appeared in a Harper's Bazaar spread with The Simpsons.
Personal life
Evangelista was married to Elite executive Gerald Marie from 1987 to 1993. She has also dated actor Kyle MacLachlan (1992-1998), French football player Fabien Barthez (1998-2000), Italian oil mogul Ugo Brachetti Peretti (2003-2004), and former Formula One driver Paolo Barilla (2005).
Throughout her career, Evangelista has expressed her desire to have children. [5] In 1999, she suffered a miscarriage after six months of pregnancy (the father was Barthez).
To her delight, on October 11, 2006, she gave birth to a boy, Augustin James. While pregnant, Evangelista appeared on the August 2006 issue of Vogue magazine. She was the first non-actress/singer model to appear on Vogue in over a year.
She also plays the accordion, and was a cigar smoker before she gave up smoking and drinking altogether.
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