Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista (Ontario, may 10, 1965) is a Canadian supermodel. ==Biography[ Edit] == Evangelista was raised in a Catholic Italian emigrants family. At a young age she had the ambition to become a model. Her breakthrough came in 1978 when she competed in the ' Miss Teen Niagara Contest ' and was scouted by a modeling agency. At that time she was fifteen years. Although they did not win this contest, this was the reason for a successful modeling career. This began in New York, where she got a contract with Elite Model. But soon held Evangelista the in America for seen and she departed to Paris to develop. After waiting three years got Evangelista Finally, after she had her hair cut short-reluctantly-by the famous Barber Julien Dy's, a large contract for the American edition of Vogue. This look was such a success that they worldwide six months on end at all to see was Vogue-covers.

Evangelista then worked for all the major designers and cosmetics companies, including Calvin Klein, L ' Oréal, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, Thierry Mugler,Vivienne Westwood, Givenchy and Christian Dior. They realized early on that the key to success her outward variety concerned. Time and time again she changed her hairstyle and hair color in appearance, which played an important role. This went so far that Evangelista was asked to her head at the end of a show from the wings to her latest hairstyle to show and with it was in all the newspapers.

Like fellow top model Helena Christensen, who played in a music clip of Chris Isaak, was Evangelista appeared in two clips of George Michael: Freedom ' 90 and Too Funky. Evangelista also does a lot of charity work. Along with Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell they formed ' The Trinity ', which many did for breast cancer research. Both grandmothers and a friend of Evangelista were already died of this disease.

Famous sayings by her are: "We don't wake up for less then $ tenthousend a day"[1]  and as reaction to the song Madonna Vogue : "We don't we are Vogue, Vogue".Evangelista is still active as a model and gave in an interview to answer the question how long they still wanted to be employed as a model: "I never stop". ===Private Life[ Edit] === Between 1987 and 1993 she was married to Elite-boss Gerald Marie. In 2003, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Evangelista had a relationship with Andre Rau, footballer Fabien Barthez and actor Kyle MacLachlan. She's been engaged with restaurateur Peter Morton.

On 11 October 2006, she was in New York a son, after previously having had a miscarriage. [2]  It remained for a long time unknown who the father was. In July 2011, however, it was known that François-Henri Pinault, the husband of actress Salma Hayek, the father is. [3]