Yasmin Abshir Warsame is a Somali-born Canadian supermodel. In 2004, she was named "The most alluring Canadian" in a poll by Fashion Magazine.She moved from Somalia to Toronto, Canada when she was fifteen. Warsame began modelling in 2000 with a booking for the Sears catalogue in Toronto. She was in her early 20s – and five months pregnant with her son Hamzah – when she accepted this shoot. She worked as a fashion model in Canada for almost two years. Her look, however, was considered too "haute couture" for the local scene, making work scarce. So, in the summer of 2002, Warsame headed to Paris. In that year her break-through came by a feature for the Italian
Vogue,fotographed by Steven Meisel.
Vogue,fotographed by Steven Meisel.
Waris Dirie
Dirie was born into a nomadic tribe in Somalia. Her home was a portable hut woven from grass.By chance, she was discovered by photographer Terence Donovan, who put her face on the cover of the 1987 Pirelli calendar. From there, her career took off, being placed in ads for designers such as Chanel . "It's very sad that I had to make the choice to leave my country and at the same time I did not want to leave," she said. "Africa is different. I was young. I had nothing to worry about. I had my family, I had my animals, I had my simple life. It was beautiful." Dirie now lives in Vienna, Austria but still feels the contrasts between the West and her war-torn home. "Here it seems like it is chaos forever and I'm trying to sit down for a moment and there's no time for that," she laughed. "In Somalia we don't have clocks so we don't care what time it is. But in the West, everything is money-money, power, sucking, sucking away. It is never enough."
Katja Shchekina
Katja Shchekina, born May 18, 1986 in Perm, Russia) is a Russian and Somali supermodel. She is of Somali and Russian heritage. Shchekina possesses a unique kind of beauty that transcends tradtional looks, making her internationally appealing in the world of fashion advertising. Shchekina sometimes is mistaken as being from a new wave of Brazilian models.
Kadra Ahmed Omar
Katja Shchekina, born May 18, 1986 in Perm, Russia) is a Russian and Somali supermodel. She is of Somali and Russian heritage. Shchekina possesses a unique kind of beauty that transcends tradtional looks, making her internationally appealing in the world of fashion advertising. Shchekina sometimes is mistaken as being from a new wave of Brazilian models.
Kadra Ahmed Omar
Born on 1975 in Ethiopia but of Somalian descent. Worked in agencies in New York - Elite, Paris - Elite, Milan - Elite. Kadra was discovered by French television presenter, Nicolas Hulot, who introduced her to the Elite agency in Paris.
Ubah Hassan
Ubah Hassan
Labels: somali models
posted by SGG at Monday, January 28, 2008
