Before Brazilian-born Gisele Bundchen gained world-wide international fame, the fashion industry favored a the "Heroin Chic" look, which some health and social experts regarded as "unhealthy" and "unattainable" for the average woman.
Around that time, 13-year Bundchen attended a modeling course with her two sisters upon the assistance of their mother. The next year, she was spotted in a Sao Paulo shopping mall by a modeling agency. In 1996, at 16, she moved to New York to begin her modeling career. She made her debut in New York's prestigious Fashion Week.
People immediately took to the tall, long flowing locks of light brown hair with tan skin, a pronounced nose, and freckles. She added a certain element of sex appeal that hadn't been seen on international fashion runways since Elle Macpherson, who was once dubbed "The Body."
In fact, when her big break came in 2000, when she was chosen to model for Alexander McQueen, McQueen himself dubbed Bundchen "The Body." Like Macpherson, Bundchen skyrocketed to stardom. Rolling Stone Magazine coined her "The most beautiful girl in the world." She appeared on the covers of hundreds of magazines, including the French edition of Vogue, whose cover read "A Girl Called Gisele." The U.S., Vogue used her image to proclaim, "the return of the sexy model."
Around that time, 13-year Bundchen attended a modeling course with her two sisters upon the assistance of their mother. The next year, she was spotted in a Sao Paulo shopping mall by a modeling agency. In 1996, at 16, she moved to New York to begin her modeling career. She made her debut in New York's prestigious Fashion Week.
People immediately took to the tall, long flowing locks of light brown hair with tan skin, a pronounced nose, and freckles. She added a certain element of sex appeal that hadn't been seen on international fashion runways since Elle Macpherson, who was once dubbed "The Body."
In fact, when her big break came in 2000, when she was chosen to model for Alexander McQueen, McQueen himself dubbed Bundchen "The Body." Like Macpherson, Bundchen skyrocketed to stardom. Rolling Stone Magazine coined her "The most beautiful girl in the world." She appeared on the covers of hundreds of magazines, including the French edition of Vogue, whose cover read "A Girl Called Gisele." The U.S., Vogue used her image to proclaim, "the return of the sexy model."