#french model

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Anna Karina was a Danish-French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer.

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Rebecca Bagnol

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Anny Duperey for Paco Rabanne, Paris 1969

By Giancarlo Botti

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Pauline Baly

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Lous and The Yakuza ❤️

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Brigitte Bardot ✨Vintage 1950’s

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Laetitia Casta

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Brigitte Bardot on the set of ‘And God Created Woman’ (1956)

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Capucine at a New Years Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills, c.1950s

By Slim Aarons

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Pauline Baly

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Chrystèlle Saint Louis Augustin

'In A Boudoir Mood' Collection

Christian Dior RTW S/S 1998

By John Galliano

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Alla Ilchun (1926-1989)

Chinese-born Kazakh-Russian fashion model.

Alla Ilchun (12.09.1926 - 08.03.1989)

A muse for Christian Dior, who referred to her as "his personal talisman", she was the first prominent Asian woman to model European fashions.

Ilchun was born in Harbin, China in 1926. Her father, Kuantkhan Ilchun, was a railway engineer from a wealthy family in Kazakhstan. Her mother, Tamara, was a Russian opera singer and the daughter of a White Army officer. Due to political unrest in Harbin, with the city passing between the Chinese, Japanese, the Ilchun family fled to France. Her father was caught and sent to the Tokyo.

As a teenager, Ilchun worked as a dishwasher in a Parisian restaurant. During World War II, she joined the French Resistance.

Ilchun attended a model casting in Paris, as a favor to a friend, and was chosen by Christian Dior to work for the fashion house.

She became a very successful model, and a muse for Dior, who referred to her as "his personal talisman". She was the first Asian model in the European fashion world.

While working as a model, she met the photographer Mike de Dülmen. The two married and had one children. After Dior's death, Ilchun worked closely with Yves Saint Laurent.

Died at age 62.