ALESSANDRA
AMBROSIO Gallery
Alessandra
Ambrosio Gallery
Name : Alessandra Ambrosio
Birth Name : Alessandra Corine Ambrosio
Birth Date : 04/11/1981
Birth Place : Erechim, Brazil
Height : 5' 10"
Sex : F
Nationality : Brazilian
Occupation : Supermodel
Relation : Jayson Lee, Marcelo Boldrini (model)
Claim Fame : The first spokesmodel for Victoria's
Secret PINK line
Alessandra Ambrosio (born April 11, 1981) is a Brazilian-born
female model. One of the faces of Guess? and Victoria's
Secret.
Alessandra Ambrosio was part of the deluge of Brazilian
models that emerged after Gisele Bündchen opened
the floodgates. One of the star models of that group,
of which fellow Victoria's Secret/Guess? Model (and
best friend) Ana Beatriz Barros is a member, the 5'10,
light brown-haired Ambrosio accumulated quite a career
in the late 1990's into the next century. Ambrosio
was born in Exerim, Brazil, a small town in the south.
As an early teen, she enrolled in a modeling class
and subsequently was entered in the Elite modeling
agency's 1996 Look of the Year competition. Though
she did not win, she was offered an Elite contract
one year after.
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Her first modeling job was the cover of the Brazilian
Marie Claire, and Ambrosio followed with other editorial
work, but it was not long after that the Marcianos
at Guess signed Ambrosio for their fall Millennium
campaign in 2000. Her lucrative print career began
with being a Guess? Girl and continued with deals
with Revlon and Victoria's Secret. Ambrosio walked
the VS runway for the first time in 2001 and continued
to be a fixture in subsequent shows. Ambrosio was
also picked to be the spokesmodel for the 2004 Pink
line by Victoria's Secret.
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When Ambrosio was 12 years old, she enrolled in modeling
classes then, began modeling for Dilson Stein at age
15. Winning Brazil’s Elite Model Look started
her modeling career. Her first big modeling job was
the cover of the Brazilian Elle magazine. Elite passed
along some of her Polaroids to Guess which led her
to do the Millennium Guess? campaign along with her
friend and fellow Brazilian supermodel Ana Beatriz
Barros. She has since been in huge demand, working
with big-name brands and appearing in well famous
international magazine covers.
Ambrosio has made several television appearances,
notably a cameo as herself on HBO’s Entourage
along with Izabel Goulart; The Late Late Show with
Craig Kilborn; Late Night with Conan O’Brien;
as guest judge on Project Runway season 2: Team Lingerie
and The Tyra Banks Show where she was a guest twice.
She appeared alongside TV personality, Regis Philbin
in a worldwide commercial for Hummer H2. In 2006,
she had a cameo on the box-office hit movie, Casino
Royale appearing briefly as tennis girl #1.
In 2004, Ambrosio launched her line of swimwear called
Alessandra Ambrosio by Sais, a division of Rosa Cha
and is continuing to expand into other areas of licensing.
Her best known collaboration is with American lingerie
brand Victoria’s Secret. She appeared on the
Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the first
time in 2000, and continues to be a participant in
the subsequent shows. Her most notable walk down the
runway was in 2005 wearing lingerie made entirely
out of candy. In 2004, she was selected as the first
spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret PINK line.
She is currently a contract ‘Angel’ and
spokesmodel for Victoria’s Secret. Her ‘Angel’
status has brought her to the public’s attention
being cited by the popular media as one of the world’s
sexiest women. She was chosen as one of People magazine’s
annual 100 Most Beautiful People in the World, in
May 2007 along with fellow ‘Angels’ Ambrosio
is among the world’s top-earning models.
Ambrosio is currently the face for the UK company
Next and Armani A|X. Ambrosio stars Next’s first
television campaign in 12 years.
Campaigns:
Victoria’s Secret, Revlon, Christian Dior, Giorgio
Armani, Rolex, Oscar de la Renta, Gucci, Escada, Roccobarocco,
Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren
Covers:
Cosmopolitan, ELLE, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie
Claire, Ocean Drive, Vogue, Glamour
Shows:
Victoria’s Secret, Laura Biagiotti, Christian
Lacroix, Byblos, Fendi, Issey Miyake, Kenzo, Christian
Dior, Nicole Miller, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani,
Vivienne Westwood, Oscar de la Renta
