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Christy Nicole Turlington (born January
2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California) is an American
supermodel best known for representing Calvin Klein
fragrances since 1987. She grew up in Danville,
California, with a British commercial pilot father and
Salvadoran flight attendant mother.
She has also worked on various campaigns
for Maybelline Cosmetic and Giorgio Armani, has appeared
in several films about the fashion industry and was a
co-founder of the now defunct Fashion Café.
Career: Turlington can lay claim to a long list
of accomplishments in the modeling industry, having had
numerous million dollar contracts with companies like
Maybelline, Chanel and Calvin Klein. Although she is
known as one of the most successful supermodels in
history, Christy has rejected the 'supermodel' label.
She is widely respected in the fashion industry as one
of the friendliest and most professional models in the
business.
In 1988, Christy along with Linda
Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Elle
MacPherson, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour and
Tatjana Patitz became known as the first supermodels.
Photographer Steven Meisel booked Christy, Naomi and
Linda frequently and together they became known as the
"Trinity".
During the 1990s, Christy appeared in Unzipped, a
documentary about fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and
the fashion mockumentary film Prêt-à-Porter by famed
director Robert Altman. Additionally, she was featured
in Catwalk, a documentary covering life on the fashion
runways, by director Robert Leacock. The documentary was
filmed in 1993 and premiered in 1996.
The film followed Christy and her fellow
models Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon, Kate Moss and
Carla Bruni as they jetted around London, Milan, Paris
and New York during Spring Fashion Week. It included
rare footage of what goes on behind the scenes at big
shows including fittings, parties, shopping and
catfights. The film was shot in black and white and
color, and featured many top designers at work like a
young John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace 4
years before his death.
Turlington also appeared in two music videos. Best
friend and fellow model Yasmin Le Bon got her husband
Simon LeBon of Duran Duran to feature Christy in their
'Notorious' video in 1986, as well as the album cover.
In 1990, singer George Michael drew inspiration from
Peter Lindbergh's January 1990 British Vogue cover
(which features Christy, Naomi, Linda, Cindy and
Tatjana) for his 'Freedom' video. The video featured all
top 5 female models along with their top 5 male
counterparts, lip-syncing the song.
More recently, she has become a partner in three
successful business ventures: an ayurvedic skincare line
(Sundari) and two clothing lines produced by Puma:
Nuala, an active women's clothing line; and Mahanuala, a
women's yoga-wear line.
On August 11, 2006 Women's Wear Daily reported that
Christy signed a multiyear contract with Maybelline,
marking her return to the company that made her famous
with its 'Maybe She's Born With It' ad campaign.
Personal life: Turlington has been practicing
Yoga since the early 1990s and is the author of Living
Yoga: Creating A Life Practice (ISBN 0-7868-6806-6).
Owing to this interest in Eastern religions she went
back to school in 1994 and graduated cum laude in 1999
from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New
York University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree with a concentration in Comparative Religion and
Eastern Philosophy. Previously a vegetarian, she has
gone back to being a meat eater. An ex-smoker whose
father died of lung cancer, Turlington is also an
anti-smoking activist.
On June 7, 2003 she married actor/filmmaker Edward Burns
in a ceremony with U2 frontman Bono acting father of the
bride. Burns and Turlington have two children: a
daughter Grace born October 25, 2003 and a son Finn born
February 2006. They have a dog named 'MicSpic' after
Turlington's Hispanic and Burns' Irish heritage.
Trivia:
- Christy Turlington has been on over 500 magazine
covers.
- Her face is used on the mannequins created by
Ralph Pucci for the Costume Institute at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, causing her to be called
the 'Face of the 20th Century'.
- Her unclothed form was used in a PETA campaign
under the motto 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur'.
(see PETA campaigns)
- She climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
- She is the chairperson of the Intercambios
Culturales of El Salvador organisation.
- Christy has been featured in several professional
photobooks including Peter Lindbergh's '10 Women',
Arthur Elgort's 'Model Manual', Herb Ritts
'Man/Woman' and Karl Lagerfeld's 'Off the Record'.
- "I am Christy Turlington I am the word"
is a short story by Tom Junod published in Esquire
magazine in November 1997 (Volume 128, Issue 5).
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