Sao Paulo: Marilyn Agency: Ana Bela

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BIO de Ana Bela - Assunto de Modelo:
"Data de Nascimento: 22/10/1984
Local de Nascimento: SP
Agência: Marilyn
Perfil: negra bela - 1,78 m de altura, olhos castanhos e 45 quilos.
Carreira: Ana Bela começou sua carreira em dezembro de 2000, depois de procurar a agência para um teste. Com seu perfil, logo passou a integrar o casting da Marilyn. Ana estreou no Brasil como estrela da campanha da grife Einstein Jeans (2001), ilustrou editoriais das revistas Capricho, Raça, Io Donna, Vogue Brasil, Elle, Atrevida e Mundo Mix e logo embarcou para a primeira temporada internacional, em Nova York. A beleza negra da modelo ficou registrada em diversas campanhas de mídia impressa: para a Club Mônaco, foi fotografada por Nathanael Goldberg; Rimmel Cosmetic, por David Sims; campanha da Kenneth Cole Reaction, pelo fotógrafo Sandro Sadano; e para a Mac Cosmetic, por Solve Sundsbo. Um dos trabalhos de maior destaque foi a campanha da M. Officer."

PERFIL: A bela no mundo das feras by Daniel Marcusso

Caracas: Garbo y Class: Desiree Cabrera

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Puerto Rico: Amnezzia: Ana Victoria

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Narcissistic Fashion Disorder

As France debates the causes of last year's riots by North African youths, and other European countries contemplate the risks of avian flu virus alongside older pandemics such as HIV-AIDS, it is time for us trot out the sad old story of racism in the global fashion industry. From the great houses to the runways, the failure of imagination and heart among designers, editors, advertisers and agencies has produced one painfully clear result: institutional racism in an industry which continues to neglect beauty and creativity from the poorer southern half of our globe.

To see if anything has changed, we sampled the mainboards of several of the leading Paris agencies. The panel below is representative (the agency will not be named, it uses the same business model as its competitors). Fewer than 1% of the top models in Paris are African or mixed heritage. The numbers in London and Milan are similar. More surpisingly, the best Brazilian agencies have fewer and fewer black models. Only in South Africa do we find significant numbers of black models (for example, Ice Model Management represents a full 20% black faces).

A SAMPLE SKIN SWATCHES FROM A PARISIAN MANAGEMENT

History: The ugly side of the modeling business - racism in the fashion industry

A now classic article on racism faced by black models written by Deborah Gregory and Patricia Jacobs for Essence in September 1993.

"On a chilly afternoon last winter, the atmosphere inside Club USA--one of New York City's hottest nightspots--matched the outdoor temperature, but for a different reason: America's Black supermodels were in revolt. The Black Girls Coalition (BGC), a consortium of fashion models formed in 1988 by supermodel Iman and former model Bethann Hardison (now owner of the modeling agency Bethann Management Co., Inc.) to aid the homeless, had chosen this site for a press conference to speak out on an issue that's been hidden beneath the glamour and glitter of the profession: namely, racism within the fashion and modeling business ..."


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