1. Linda Evangelista is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential models of all time, and has been featured on over 700 magazine covers.
73 Facts About Linda Evangelista
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Unlike her colleagues, Linda Evangelista chose not to diversify into other ventures outside of modelling.
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Linda Evangelista retired from her career in 1998 and made a comeback three years later, this time working only sporadically.
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Linda Evangelista was born into a strict working-class Catholic family on May 10,1965, in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Linda Evangelista's father worked for General Motors following his emigration in 1957, and her mother is a bookkeeper.
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Linda Evangelista is the second of three children, with two brothers.
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At the age of 12, Linda Evangelista attended a self-improvement course in a modelling school, where she was taught things such as poise and etiquette and advised to attend a modelling course.
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In 1981, Linda Evangelista took part in the Miss Teen Niagara beauty pageant; while she did not win it, she caught the eye of a representative from Elite Model Management.
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At the age of 16, Linda Evangelista flew to Japan to work as a model, but an unpleasant experience involving nudity during an assignment made her want to stop modelling altogether.
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Linda Evangelista subsequently returned to Canada, and two years went by before she decided to try her hand at modelling again.
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Linda Evangelista moved to New York City in 1984 upon signing with Elite, where she met the modelling agent John Casablancas, who compared her likeness to the model Joan Severance.
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Linda Evangelista appeared on a total of more than 700 covers worldwide.
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In 1985, Linda Evangelista began working with Karl Lagerfeld, the head designer of the fashion house Chanel, to whom she would become a muse.
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Linda Evangelista first appeared in a Versace ad campaign in 1987.
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Linda Evangelista has represented a diverse array of other companies and non-fashion brands like Visa, American Express, Pizza Hut, De Beers, and Elizabeth Arden.
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In 1986, Linda Evangelista met the photographer Steven Meisel, with whom she forged a friendship.
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From that point on, they began working together on many professional collaborations, and Linda Evangelista became Meisel's muse in the process.
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Linda Evangelista became known as one of the five supermodels, a group of star models who reached the pinnacle of success during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Linda Evangelista appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show where she served as a judge for an Elite model search competition, and chose Leslie Bibb as the winner, who later became an actress.
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Also in October 1990, Linda Evangelista stunned the fashion world by having the hairstylist Oribe dye her naturally brown hair platinum blonde.
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Model Tyson Beckford recounted in an interview that Linda Evangelista was instrumental in getting higher rates for models.
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Linda Evangelista then starred in the 1991 documentary Models: The Film, directed by Lindbergh.
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And, an episode of the MTV show House of Style devoted a segment to Linda Evangelista, which was filmed in Paris.
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The most talked about and most controversial of those billboards was one that showed Linda Evangelista seated among seven older Sicilian women.
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Linda Evangelista then appeared in the music video for George Michael's "Too Funky" song, in which she parodied her modelling persona.
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Linda Evangelista was said to have started the trend for thin eyebrows, which later coincided with the arrival of the Neo-Hippie fashion trend in the fall of 1992.
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Linda Evangelista made headlines in 1993 when she travelled to Australia with Claudia Schiffer for a 5-day tour, which included a news conference and a televised fashion show, as part of the grand opening of a department store.
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In 1995, the hairstylist Garren of New York changed Linda Evangelista's look by giving her an asymmetrical bob similar to mod hairstyles of the 1960s.
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Linda Evangelista later landed an endorsement deal with Clairol worth over $5 million.
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In 1996, Linda Evangelista was one of the ten subjects of Lindbergh's book 10 Women, on whose cover she appeared.
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Linda Evangelista was the cover model for the inaugural issues of Vogue Taiwan and Vogue Korea.
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In 2001, Linda Evangelista made a noteworthy return to the modelling world, and appeared on the cover of the September issue of Vogue.
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Linda Evangelista walked the runway for Jean Paul Gaultier's debut collection at Hermes.
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In 2006, Linda Evangelista appeared on the cover of the book In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine along with model Kristen McMenamy, photographed by Meisel.
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Linda Evangelista appeared in the September 2008 issue of Vanity Fair for a feature story on the supermodels titled "A League of Their Own".
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Linda Evangelista was photographed by Lagerfeld for Chanel's spring 2012 eyewear ad campaign.
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In May 2012, Linda Evangelista was on the cover of Vogue Italia after a three-year hiatus from the magazine.
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Linda Evangelista was then featured in the book Vogue: The Editor's Eye as one fashion's model-muses.
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Linda Evangelista was photographed by Lagerfeld for the July 2013 cover of Vogue Germany, where she was styled to look like vintage actress Anna Magnani, and posed with Lagerfeld's pet cat Choupette.
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In 2014, Linda Evangelista was present at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Linda Evangelista was one of several models on the cover of Vogue Japan's September 2014 issue, which marked the magazine's 15th anniversary.
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Linda Evangelista has remained the recordholder for the most Vogue Italia covers.
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In October 2014, it was announced that Linda Evangelista had signed on to be a guest judge on the ninth season of the reality television series Australia's Next Top Model.
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Linda Evangelista was chosen by Canadian department store Hudson's Bay as the face of the spring 2015 campaign for its luxury clothing section called The Room.
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In June 2015, Linda Evangelista was a chairwoman for the FiFi Awards, where she presented the awards for both men's and women's prestige fragrance of the year.
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In October 2015, Linda Evangelista appeared on the cover of a book showcasing the work of hat designer Philip Treacy titled Philip Treacy: Hat Designer.
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The cover photograph of Linda Evangelista was mentioned by Treacy as being "the most precious thing I own".
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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of British Vogue, a photograph of Linda Evangelista originally taken in 1991 was chosen as the cover image for the book Vogue 100: A Century of Style, released in February 2016.
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Also that month, Linda Evangelista appeared on the cover of the book Age of the Supermodel, which features photographs taken by photographer Donna DeMari during the haute couture collections in Paris in 1991.
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Linda Evangelista worked as fashion stylist for a photo spread titled "A Model Journey" in the September 2016 issue of Harper's Bazaar, which was based on her early years as a model.
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In September 2016, Linda Evangelista reunited with Turlington and Campbell to appear in a campaign for the Elephant Crisis Fund.
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In November 2016, Linda Evangelista was named Creative Director and Vice President of the Erasa Skin Care brand.
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Linda Evangelista is featured in the four-part Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models.
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The September 1991 issue of Vogue had a photo spread titled "Wild At Heart" that featured Linda Evangelista, photographed by Lindbergh.
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Linda Evangelista influenced a number of female celebrities as either an inspiration or as a beauty icon.
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Linda Evangelista has drawn praise and accolades from many of the fashion industry's elite.
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Philip Treacy said, "Linda Evangelista is the ultimate model of the past 50 years".
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Linda Evangelista doesn't pretend or aspire to do anything else.
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Linda Evangelista could be out of a Cecil Beaton picture, she could be out of a Guy Bourdin picture.
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Meisel, to whom Linda Evangelista is his "muse", considers her "extraordinarily photogenic".
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Linda Evangelista is an enormous influence on all the photographers and stylists.
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Linda Evangelista was referred to as "the supermodel's supermodel" by Marcus Chang of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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Linda Evangelista was one of the icons in the Viva Glam campaign for the Mac AIDS Fund.
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Linda Evangelista supports the Elton John AIDS Foundation and is an advocate for LGBT concerns.
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In 1987, Linda Evangelista married Gerald Marie, who was the head of Elite Model Management's Paris office.
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Linda Evangelista dated actor Kyle MacLachlan, whom she first met on a photoshoot for Barneys New York in 1992.
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Linda Evangelista became pregnant but miscarried, six months into the pregnancy.
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In October 2006, Linda Evangelista gave birth to a son but refused to name his father, sparking rumours.
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In late June 2011, Linda Evangelista filed court papers that revealed her son was fathered by billionaire Frenchman Francois-Henri Pinault, whom Linda Evangelista had dated for four months in late 2005 and early 2006.
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In September 2021 Linda Evangelista explained why she had withdrawn from public life and not been working.
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Linda Evangelista initiated legal action against CoolSculpting's owner Zeltiq Aesthetics, a subsidiary of Allergan, seeking $50million in damages for emotional distress and lost income.
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In 2023, Linda Evangelista revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2018.
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Linda Evangelista received chemotherapy and underwent a bilateral mastectomy; the cancer returned in 2022 in her pectoral muscle for which she received chemotherapy.