American models have always been an inspiration for the fashion industry. As they know how to carry them self in any outfit. Even if their looks are not good still they do a marvelous job. Here I will be listing American top models who have spotlight and are apple of eye of everyone.
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Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid is a known American fashion model and television personality. Her acting career started with the short film ‘Virgin Eyes,’ which was released in 2012 and featured her in the role of Andrea. She also rose to prominence as a cast member of the reality television show “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
She is seen in several music videos. She is seen in various episodes of the famous television show “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” which premiered on October 14, 2010. The show is a reality television series that follows several women’s personal and professional lives in Beverly Hills, California.
She has also graced the covers of many magazines and starred in popular music videos. She made an appearance on the American cooking television show ‘MasterChef’ in 2016.
The show, which is based on a British series of the same name, is exceptionally successful in the United States. It’s widely assumed that Katy Perry was the inspiration for the song “Bad Blood.” The song received primarily negative reviews and was characterized as “clichéd” by critics.
However, it was called one of the best songs on the album by the American magazine ‘Entertainment Weekly.’ As of January 2017, the music video had received billions of views around the world. The ‘Grammy Award for Best Music Video’ was also given to it. Hadid’s performance in the famous music video “Pillowtalk,” filmed by Zayn Malik, a well-known British singer, and songwriter, is one of her most recent and essential works. The song was written for his self-titled debut solo studio album. The single was a significant hit along with the music video, debuting at number one in the United States on January 29, 2016.
Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford, also known as Cindy Crawford, was one of America’s first supermodels and is one of the few names to have revolutionized the fashion industry. She was 16 years old when she was discovered and photographed by a newspaper photographer.
She collaborated with the most prominent modeling designers and posed for countless magazines when she was younger to make a name for herself in the glamour industry. Her photograph was well received, and she soon began modeling. At a tender age, she made her mark in Elite Model Management’s Look of the Year contest and placed second. She worked for Victor Skrebneski, a well-known Chicago photographer.
In 1986, she relocated to Manhattan to work for the Elite New York modeling agency. She has established herself as one of the most influential businesswomen in the fashion industry by displaying her ingenuity through her furniture, cutlery, silverware, bed linens, and other products. She is also a philanthropist who takes part in numerous charity activities and raises awareness about various forms of cancer.
Kendall Jenner
Kendall Nicole Jenner is an American actress, Instagram star, socialite, famous sensation who shot to fame with the blockbuster television show ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ that airs on the ‘E!’ cable network. She came into fashion modeling after having immense popularity. By doing an ad campaign for ‘Forever 21,’ her career in modeling skyrocketed. She walked the ramp for almost every luxury brand available, including ‘Prada,’ ‘Givenchy,’ ‘Fendi,’ and ‘Chanel.’
One of the famous and limelight songs of the ‘One Call’ boy band titled ‘Blacklight’ was made transformed a video in 2010 that featured Jenner along with other television stars like Kevin McHale and Ashley Benson. She was photographed for a ‘Teen Vogue’ cover on April 19 of that year. She appeared on the covers of ‘Flavour Magazine,’ ‘American Cheerleader,’ ‘Lovecat,’ ‘Teen Prom,’ ‘GenLux,’ ‘Raine,’ and ‘Looks’ by the end of the year.
Tyra Banks
Tyra Banks is an actress, author, producer, entrepreneur, TV personality, and former supermodel from the United States. She went to ‘John Burroughs Middle School’ before transferring to ‘Immaculate Heart High School’ in Los Angeles, where she graduated in 1991. She was harassed because she was tall and skinny when she was 11 years old.
Kate Moss
Kate Moss carved out a niche in the modeling industry with her diminutive height and size zero figure, which contrasted sharply with many of the curvy supermodels of the time. In 1990, she started her modeling career by posing for black-and-white photos for the British magazine ‘The Face.’ Corinne Day, who shot the images, dubbed the shoot “The 3rd Summer of Love.” She was the face of the Calvin Klein brand at the age of eighteen. She starred in the promotional campaign for the perfume’ Obsession,’ which she modeled alongside Mark Wahlberg.
Her breakthrough came as a result of the commercial, as she was noticed all over the world. Although some admired and complimented her slim figure, the majority dismissed her as anorexic. She made her television debut in the British screen comedy ‘Blackadder: Back & Forth’ in 1999. She portrayed the character of ‘Maid Marian.’
She has collaborated with all of the industry’s most prestigious fashion houses, designers, and photographers, including Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Bulgari, Calvin Klein, Chanel, and Rimmel. She became one of the world’s top fashion icons after successfully placing herself at the forefront of the fashion scene.
Kate Upton
Kate Upton is an actress and model from the United States. She has appeared on the covers of several well-known publications, including Vanity Fair’s 100th Anniversary issue, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, Cosmopolitan, British Vogue, French ELLE, Esquire, and Jalouse. Her first modeling job was for apparel companies such as ‘Dooney & Bourke’ and ‘Garage.’
In the 2010-11 edition of ‘Guess,’ she was the cover girl, and she also featured in the ‘Swimsuit Issue’ of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ She was dressed in one of her creations, the “Bunny Suits.” She was dubbed “The Woman of the Summer” by Esquire magazine. She was spotlighted on the cover of various magazines, which includes Sports Illustrated “Swimsuit Issue” in 2012 and 2013.
During both of the shoots, she had a difficult time. The first shoot, which took place in 2012, received many negative reviews and criticism, while the second shoot, which took place in Antarctica, subjected her to extreme weather conditions and nearly resulted in hypothermia.
Kate has featured in the ‘Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’ four times, once as the ‘Rookie of the Year’ in 2011 and three times as the cover model in 2012, 2013, and 2017. She’s been featured in several well-known American fashions and sports publications, including ‘Complex’ and ‘Esquire.’ She was dubbed “Woman of the Summer” by the latter.
Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz are among the photographers who have photographed her. She has appeared in commercials for well-known brands such as ‘Guess,’ ‘Express,’ ‘Victoria’s Secrets,’ and ‘David Yurman.’
Paris Jackson
Paris Jackson is the late Michael Jackson’s (King of Pop) daughter. She is a model and actress in her own right and being the daughter of a legend. She had to live a controlled life due to her high-profile background, as she was constantly threatened with abduction.
Paris’s father’s untimely death was a significant blow, but it also forced her to stand on her own two feet. She has acted in films and worked as a model. Aside from her inheritance, she has a sizable social media following and a sizable net worth to bear on her father’s legacy. Following her father’s death, she began making public appearances and became a talking point every time she was captured on camera.
Despite the controversies, she has always praised her father and referred to him as a wonderful father. In the documentary Living with Michael Jackson,’ she made her first television appearance. Brooklynn Proulx played her in the 2004 television biopic “Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story.” She will play Nelly, an edgy 20-year-old in the dark comedy about a mild-mannered American businessman (David Oyelowo). He crosses the line to become a criminal in Amazon Studio’s untitled Nash Edgerton movie.
Lana
CJ Perry is a professional wrestler, promoter, dancer, performer, model, and actress from the United States. Her ring name is ‘Lana,’ and she is officially signed to the world-famous professional wrestling organization ‘WWE’. Perry began her acting career in 2008 when she was cast in the film “Benny Future and the Madman from Manchester,” in which she played Arabella.
She also worked in a TV series called “The Millionaire Matchmaker” in the same year. She became a member of the girl group ‘No Means Yes’ in 2009. Perry, Tanu, Kat, and Shea made up the girl group, which was signed to Ne-record Yo’s label. ‘No Means Yes’ disbanded in 2010 after a song called ‘Would You Like That’ and recording two other songs.
Perry began performing as a backup dancer for artists such as Usher, Akon, Keri Hilson, Nelly, Rich Boy, and Pink after her band disbanded. In 2011, she appeared in the action-comedy film ‘Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,’ directed by John Whitesaction-comedy game year, she appeared in TV shows such as “The Game” and “The Fresh Beat Band,” as well as a dancer in the television film “Big Time Beach Party.”
Perry has been cast in the lead role of Alexis in the crime thriller ‘Soul.’ She has performed another lead role the following year in Stephen Reynolds’ action film “Interrogation,” in which she played Becky. She joined the iconic reality television show “Total Divas” in 2016, which follows the lives of female “WWE” wrestlers.
Gia Carangi
Gia Carangi is among the first supermodels to appear in the United States. She began a promising career that was tragically cut short due to her substance addiction and personal issues. She had gained a lot of recognition in just six years as a professional model. Her life has been the subject of many television programs, documentaries, and films.
Angelina Jolie portrayed her in the HBO biopic titled “Gia.” Jolie received an award for her performance in the biopic. Gia Carangi’s career was brief but glamorous. She was able to get her picture in many Philadelphia newspapers.
This gave her hope for a successful career in the fashion industry. At the age of seventeen, she left Philadelphia for New York City. Carangi began leading a lavish and wild lifestyle at the peak of her career. Her repeated trips to nightclubs led to her using cocaine on a daily basis. She developed an addiction to the drug and became a victim of it.
She began to have difficulties at work when she started to walk out of photoshoots and lose control of herself. She would weep because she didn’t have any medication during her shoots, making it impossible for others to keep her under control. Despite a lot of airbrushing in those videos, Carangi was spotted with needle marks in one of ‘American Vogue’s issues.
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton belonged to a wealthy family, which is the owner of the Hilton hotels. She is born with a “silver spoon.” She is also a media mogul, a jet setter, an actress, a model, a party animal, and a blogger. She also owns a fashion line, a perfume line, a nightlife line, and her record label, dubbed “Heiress Records.” In 2005, she published her second book, ‘Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me,’ and launched her second perfume collection, ‘Just Me.’
Also, she was cast in the film’ House of Wax,’ which stars Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray. She started shooting for ‘Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend,’ a British spin-off of the American reality show ‘Paris Hilton My New BFF,’ which premiered in 2009. When she appeared in an episode of ‘Supernatural,’ several viewers were pleasantly shocked.
“Good Time” is the first single from Paris Hilton’s forthcoming second studio album. The single featured rapper Lil Wayne and debuted at number 18 on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Songs chart in the United States. The second and third singles from her forthcoming second studio album, “Come Alive” and “High Off My Love,” was released in July 2014 and May 2015.
