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Pirelli Calendar

Pirelli Calendar

Overview
The Pirelli Calendar has become an annual publication that belies its origin in 1964 as merely a trade calendar published by the Pirelli
Pirelli
Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy.-History:Founded 1872 in Milan by Giovanni Battista Pirelli, Pirelli initially specialised in rubber and derivative processes. Effectively, Pirelli's activities are still primarily focused on the production of tyres and cables...

 company's UK subsidiary.

The calendar is famous for its limited availability because it is not sold and is only given as a corporate gift to a restricted number of important Pirelli customers and celebrity VIPs. The Pirelli Calendar is perhaps the world's only prestigious and exclusive "girly" calendar, featuring pictures generally considered glamour photography
Glamour photography
Glamour photography is a genre of photography whereby people, usually female, are portrayed in such a way as to emphasize attractiveness and charm...

 including artistic nudes.

Publication was discontinued after the 1974 issue as an economising cut back in response to the world recession from the oil shock
1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo" in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military" during the Yom Kippur war; it lasted until March 1974...

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The Pirelli Calendar has become an annual publication that belies its origin in 1964 as merely a trade calendar published by the Pirelli
Pirelli
Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy.-History:Founded 1872 in Milan by Giovanni Battista Pirelli, Pirelli initially specialised in rubber and derivative processes. Effectively, Pirelli's activities are still primarily focused on the production of tyres and cables...

 company's UK subsidiary.

The calendar is famous for its limited availability because it is not sold and is only given as a corporate gift to a restricted number of important Pirelli customers and celebrity VIPs. The Pirelli Calendar is perhaps the world's only prestigious and exclusive "girly" calendar, featuring pictures generally considered glamour photography
Glamour photography
Glamour photography is a genre of photography whereby people, usually female, are portrayed in such a way as to emphasize attractiveness and charm...

 including artistic nudes.

Publication was discontinued after the 1974 issue as an economising cut back in response to the world recession from the oil shock
1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo" in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military" during the Yom Kippur war; it lasted until March 1974...

. It was resurrected 10 years later and has been published regularly since then.

Appearance on the calendar has become a mark of distinction for those photographic models that are chosen, as well as for the photographer
Photographer
A photographer is a person who takes photographs using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to make a living whilst an amateur photographer does not earn a living and typically takes photographs for pleasure and to record an event, place or person for future enjoyment.A...

s commissioned to produce the images used. Over the years the supermodels and celebrities who have appeared have included Sienna Miller
Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Miller is an American-born English actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in G.I. Joe, Alfie, and Factory Girl.-Early life:...

, Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is an English supermodel.-Early life:Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell , is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent...

, Eva Riccobono
Eva Riccobono
Eva Riccobono is an Italian model.- Biography :Riccobono was born in 1983 in Palermo, the largest city in Sicily. Her father is Sicilian and her mother is German. She has three older sisters and a brother who died when she was four...

, Malgosia Bela
Malgosia Bela
Małgosia Bela is a Polish fashion model and actress.Bela became a successful runway and editorial model in the late nineties, appearing on the covers of many international editions of Vogue, including Vogue Italia and Vogue Paris...

, Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program...

, Sonny Freeman Drane, Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Katherine "Kate" Ann Moss is an English model. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns. She is also notorious for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle...

, Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford is a former American model. Known for her trademark mole just above her lip, Crawford has adorned hundreds of magazine covers throughout her career. She was named #3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s...

, Selma Blair
Selma Blair
Selma Blair is an American actress. After numerous supporting roles in the 1990s, she starred in the film Cruel Intentions and the short-lived TV series Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999. She has since had notable roles in Hollywood feature films such as Legally Blonde , The Sweetest Thing , and...

, Lauren Bush
Lauren Bush
Lauren Pierce Bush is a fashion model, , and designer. She is the daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush . A niece of former President George W. Bush she is a granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush.-Biography:...

, Elsa Benitez
Elsa Benítez
Elsa Benítez is a Mexican model.-Career:Benítez began modeling after winning an international model search in Costa Rica in 1995. She subsequently began modeling in Mexico, the United States and Europe...

, Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Casta
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta is a French model and actress.-Personal life and background:...

, Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress, best known for her role in the hit romantic comedy She's All That and her "Your Brain on Drugs" PSA.-Early life:Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Thomas H...

, Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-born American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer...

, Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch-Frisian model and currently one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.- Early life :...

, Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel is a German model who is an actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer...

, Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Italian film actress and an international sex symbol. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance....

, Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez , better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jamón, Jamón, La Niña de tus ojos, and Belle époque. She has also starred in several American films such as Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona...

, Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy is an American actress and recording artist. She has starred in films such as Just Married; Clueless; Girl, Interrupted; 8 Mile; Sin City; The Dead Girl; Uptown Girls; Happy Feet; Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun.-Early life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Murphy's parents divorced when...

, Amy Smart
Amy Smart
Amy Lysle Smart is an American television and film actress and former fashion model.-Early life:Smart was born in Topanga, California, the daughter of Judy, a museum worker, and John Smart, a salesman...

, Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...

, Karolina Kurkova
Karolína Kurková
Karolína Isela Kurková is a Czech model, best known as a former Victoria's Secret Angel, and an aspiring actress. Mario Testino said of Kurková, "The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment." Vogue editor Anna...

, Caroline Trentini
Caroline Trentini
Caroline Trentini , also known as Carol Trentini, is a Brazilian fashion model.- Early life :Trentini was born in Panambi, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Trentini is the youngest daughter of Lourdes and the late Jacó Trentini, who died when she was one year old. Her older sisters are Franciele and Élen...

, Raica Oliveira
Raica Oliveira
Raica Oliveira is a Brazilian model known for her work with numerous companies, including Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint Laurent, Vogue, Chanel, Lancome, Victoria's Secret, Pepe Jeans, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, JLO, H&M, Elle, Marie Claire, TNG, Ann Taylor and XOXO...

, Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
Adriana Francesca Lima is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...

, Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Her last name is spelled Ambrósio, but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work....

, Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan
Kathryn Bridget Moynahan is an American model and actress. She is known for her supporting roles in films such as Coyote Ugly , The Recruit , I, Robot and Lord of War .-Early life:...

, Shannyn Sossamon
Shannyn Sossamon
Shannon Marie Kahoolani Sossamon is an American actress, musician, dancer, DJ, and former model. She is perhaps best known for her roles in A Knight's Tale, The Rules of Attraction, 40 Days and 40 Nights and One Missed Call as well as her starring role on CBS's vampire drama Moonlight.-Early...

, Mena Suvari
Mena Suvari
Mena Alexandra Suvari is an American actress, model, fashion designer and spokeswoman, best known for her role as Angela in American Beauty , as well as the comedies American Pie and its sequel American Pie 2 .-Early life:Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of Candice, a Greek...

, Monet Mazur
Monet Mazur
Monet Happy Mazur is an American actress, model and musician.-Personal life:Mazur was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of a former fashion model mother and Ruby Mazur, an illustrator who has worked in the record industry and at one time was the manager of Billy Joel. Mazur has four...

, Aurelie Claudel
Aurélie Claudel
Aurélie Claudel is a French model. She is one of three children and has two brothers. She comes from a relatively prominent family . She is a descendant of the famous French sculptress Camille Claudel.She was approached in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris by Dawn Wolfe at the age of 13...

, Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares
Fernanda Tavares is a Brazilian model.-Biography:Born in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Tavares was appearing in local shows at the age of nine, and at just 13 she won the "Elite Look of the Year" contest. A year later, she was invited by agents to go to São Paulo to pursue a modeling career...

, Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian model.-Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling...

, Frankie Rayder
Frankie Rayder
Francesca "Frankie" Rayder is an American model who has appeared in the Victoria's Secret fashion show for four years and in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice. She has an extensive portfolio of covergirl appearances for numerous high fashion magazines and was once a VH1/Vogue Fashion...

, Angela Lindvall
Angela Lindvall
Angela Lindvall is an American model and occasional actress.-Career:Lindvall was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma to Randall Lindvall, a pharmacist, and Laura Rasdall, a medical technologist and massage therapist. She was raised in Lee's Summit, Missouri and attended Lee's Summit High School...

, Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi...

 and Yamila Díaz
Yamila Diaz
Yamila Díaz-Rahi is an Argentine model.-Background:Díaz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina of Lebanese and Spanish descent. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a health care manager...

.

The 2009 Pirelli Calendar fotoshooting was made in the Botswana
Botswana
The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

 Okavango Delta
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta , in Botswana, is the world's largest inland delta where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert instead of draining into the sea...

 in a luxury Elephant-Camp during first week of May 2008.

Photographers and locations

Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Nicole Turlington is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped...

, Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is an English supermodel.-Early life:Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell , is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent...

, Farrah Summerford, Nadja Auermann
Nadja Auermann
Nadja Auermann is a German model and actress. Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. A fashion columnist wrote of her ice maiden visage and pole vaulter's legs....

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Year Photographer Location Models
1964 Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman (photographer)
Robert Freeman is a celebrated photographer and designer, most famous for his album cover photos for the The Beatles and his design work on the end credit sequences of their first two films and the related film posters and advertising materials....

 
Majorca, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

 
1965 Brian Duffy
Brian Duffy (photographer)
Brian Duffy is a celebrated British photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s and 1970s and his creation of the iconic "Aladdin Sane" image for David Bowie.-Early life:...

 
South of France 
1966 Peter Knapp  Al Hoceima
Al Hoceima
Al Hoceima is a city and port in the north of Morocco and in the center of the Rif Mountains. The Al Hoceima city region has a population of 395.644...

, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under . Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the...

 
1967 no calendar
1968 Harry Peccinotti  Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian Republic , is a country located in North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and Libya to the southeast. Tunisia is located southwest of the island of Sicily and south of Sardinia. Its size is almost 165,000 km² with an estimated population of just...

 
1969 Harry Peccinotti Big Sur
Big Sur
Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the central California coast where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. The name "Big Sur" is derived from the original Spanish-language "el sur grande", meaning "the big south", or from "el país grande del sur", "the big country...

, California
California
California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

 
1970 Francis Giacobetti  Paradise Island
Paradise Island
Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas, located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of New Providence. It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis....

, The Bahamas 
1971 Francis Giacobetti Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width, amounting to 11,100 km2. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harboring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

 
1972 Sarah Moon  Villa Les Tilleuls, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 
1973 Brian Duffy London
London
[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, England
1974 Hans Feurer  Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar...

 
1975-1983 no calendars
1984 Uwe Ommer  Bahamas 
1985 Norman Parkinson
Norman Parkinson
Norman Parkinson, CBE was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer.-Biography:Parkinson was born in London, and schooled at Westminster School. He began his career in 1931 as an apprentice to the court photographers Speaight and Sons Ltd...

 
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is the second largest Scottish city, after Glasgow, and the seventh-most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas....

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 
1986 Bert Stern
Bert Stern
Bertram Stern is an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer.-Marilyn Monroe:His best known work is arguably The Last Sitting, a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death, taken for Vogue. Stern published Marilyn...

 
the Cotswolds
Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England", an area across and long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point in the Cotswolds range is Cleeve Hill at , to the north of Cheltenham...

, England
1987 Terence Donovan
Terence Donovan (photographer)
Terence Donovan was a celebrated British photographer and film director, perhaps best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s, or for the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love"....

 
Bath, England
1988 Barry Lategan
(choreographed by Gillian Lynne
Gillian Lynne
Gillian Barbara Lynne , CBE is a British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director, television director and choreographer noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the iconic musicals Cats and the current longest running show in Broadway history, The Phantom of the Opera.- Early...

)
London, England
1989 Joyce Tennyson  the Polaroid
Polaroid
Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarize light.-Patent:The original material, patented in 1929 and further developed in 1932 by Edwin H. Land, consists of many microscopic crystals of iodoquinine sulfate embedded in a transparent nitrocellulose polymer...

 Studios, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 
1990 Arthur Elgort
Arthur Elgort
Arthur Elgort is a fashion photographer, who has become especially known for his work as a Vogue photographer.-Career:Arthur Elgort was born and raised in New York, where he studied painting at Hunter College...

 
Seville
Seville
Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level. The inhabitants of the city are known as Sevillanos or...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

 
1991 Clive Arrowsmith
Clive Arrowsmith
Clive Arrowsmith is a London-based photographer.He has worked for many fashion publications and is the only photographer that has twice been given the commission to shoot the Pirelli Calendar. He currently shoots advertising, celebrity, beauty and fashion photography in the UK and internationally...

 
France
France
France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

 
1992 Clive Arrowsmith Almería
Almería
Almería is the capital of the province of Almería, Spain. It is located in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea.-History:The name "Almería" stems from Andalusian Arabic المرية Al-Mariyya: "The Mirror", comparing it to the "The Mirror of the Sea".The city was founded by caliph Abd ar-Rahman...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

1993 John Claridge  Seychelles
Seychelles
Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar...

 
1994 Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts
Herbert Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture...

 
Paradise Island
Paradise Island
Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas, located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of New Providence. It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis....

, the Bahamas
1995 Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon was an American photographer. Avedon capitalized on his early success in fashion photography and expanded into the realm of fine art.- Photography career :...

 
New York, United States
1996 Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh
Peter Lindbergh is a German fashion photographer.Lindbergh was born in Lissa, Surrey and grew up in Duisburg. He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer...

 
El Mirage, California, United States
1997 Richard Avedon New York, United States
1998 Bruce Weber
Bruce Weber (photographer)
Bruce Weber is an American fashion photographer and occasional filmmaker. He is most widely known for his ad campaigns for Calvin Klein, Pirelli, Abercrombie & Fitch, Revlon, Gianni Versace, and Ralph Lauren, as well as his work for Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone...

 
Miami, United States
1999 Herb Ritts Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...

, United States
2000 Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz
Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.-Early life and education:...

 
Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck may refer to:* Rhinebeck , New York* Rhinebeck , New York* Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome* Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad* New York State Sheep and Wool Festival, held in Rhinebeck, New York...

, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

 
2001 Mario Testino
Mario Testino
Mario Testino is a Peruvian fashion photographerThe eldest of seven children born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, Testino attended at the Universidad del Pacifico, the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and the University of San Diego. In 1976, Testino moved permanently to London...

 
Naples
Naples
Naples in Italy, is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

 
2002 Peter Lindbergh Hollywood, United States Amy Smart
Amy Smart
Amy Lysle Smart is an American television and film actress and former fashion model.-Early life:Smart was born in Topanga, California, the daughter of Judy, a museum worker, and John Smart, a salesman...

, Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy is an American actress and recording artist. She has starred in films such as Just Married; Clueless; Girl, Interrupted; 8 Mile; Sin City; The Dead Girl; Uptown Girls; Happy Feet; Riding in Cars with Boys and Spun.-Early life:Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Murphy's parents divorced when...

, Julia Stiles
Julia Stiles
Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...

, Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook
Rachael Leigh Cook is an American actress, best known for her role in the hit romantic comedy She's All That and her "Your Brain on Drugs" PSA.-Early life:Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Thomas H...

, Erika Christensen
Erika Christensen
Erika Jane Christensen is an American actress whose film appearances include Traffic , Swimfan and The Perfect Score , among others...

, Selma Blair
Selma Blair
Selma Blair is an American actress. After numerous supporting roles in the 1990s, she starred in the film Cruel Intentions and the short-lived TV series Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999. She has since had notable roles in Hollywood feature films such as Legally Blonde , The Sweetest Thing , and...

 
2003 Bruce Weber Campania
Campania
Campania is a region of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,595 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...

, Italy
Sienna Miller
Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Miller is an American-born English actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in G.I. Joe, Alfie, and Factory Girl.-Early life:...

, Eva Riccobono
Eva Riccobono
Eva Riccobono is an Italian model.- Biography :Riccobono was born in 1983 in Palermo, the largest city in Sicily. Her father is Sicilian and her mother is German. She has three older sisters and a brother who died when she was four...

, Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum
Heidi Samuel is a German model who is an actress, television host, business woman, fashion designer, television producer, artist, and occasional singer...

, Mariacarla Boscono
Mariacarla Boscono
Mariacarla Boscono is an Italian model.-Early life:Boscono was born in Rome, Italy. She spent most of her early life travelling because of her father's work. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was born, but after her mother became pregnant they moved to Rome. She spent a couple of years in...

, Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian model.-Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling...

, Valentina Stilla, Filippa Hamilton, Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Her last name is spelled Ambrósio, but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work....

, Jessica Miller
Jessica Miller
Jessica Miller is a pair skater who represented Canada in international competition for much of her career. She skates with Ian Moram. They teamed up in 2002. Miller previously competed for the United States with Jeffrey Weiss and Kevin Garrett...

, Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova is a Russian model, actress and philanthropist who now permanently resides in the United Kingdom.-Early life:...

, Karolina Kurkova
Karolína Kurková
Karolína Isela Kurková is a Czech model, best known as a former Victoria's Secret Angel, and an aspiring actress. Mario Testino said of Kurková, "The proportions of her body and her face, as well as her energy level, make her a model who could fit almost into any moment." Vogue editor Anna...

, Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl
Sophie Dahl is an English author and former model. She is the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were the author Roald Dahl and the actress Patricia Neal...

, Bridget Hall
Bridget Hall
Bridget Hall is an American model.Hall was born in Springdale, Arkansas. At the age of 10, she was modeling in Dallas, Texas where she was living in the suburb of Farmers Branch, Texas, where she briefly attended R. L. Turner High School. Shortly after, she moved with her mother Donna Hall to New...

, Lisa Seiffert, Yamila Diaz Rahi)
2004 Nick Knight
Nick Knight (photographer)
Nick Knight is a British photographer and Director of SHOWstudio.com. He is known for his personal, experimental vision, resulting in work that exists outside the conventions of fashion photography.-Career:...

 
London, England
2005 Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather brought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...

 
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America. The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1822 during the Portuguese colonial era, and...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

Filippa Palmstierna Hamilton
Filippa Palmstierna Hamilton
Filippa Palmstierna Hamilton, also known as Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna, , is a Swedish-French supermodel.Hamilton was born in Paris and raised in Biarritz, France. She was discovered age 15 on the streets of Paris by French photographer Marc Hispard. She secured her first major advertising...

, Julia Stegner
Julia Stegner
Julia Stegner is a German model.- Biography :Stegner, the daughter of the Central European sales manager for a large American company and an accountant, was raised in an animal-loving household with many dogs alongside her older sister, who currently works in film production...

, Eugenia Volodina
Eugenia Volodina
Eugenia Volodina is a Russian model.-Career:Volodina's modeling career began in 1998 when she attended an open call at a Russian casting agency. Although she didn't win, she was invited to take part in a Parisian modeling agency in 2000. Soon after, she was sent to Paris, where Volodina began to...

, Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell is an English supermodel.-Early life:Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell , is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent...

, Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian model.-Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling...

, Michelle Buswell
Michelle Buswell
Michelle Buswell is an American model.- Biography :Buswell was born in 1983 in Orange Park, Florida. After two years of studying nursing, she was discovered in 2002 while staying at a hotel where a modeling convention was taking place...

, Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima
Adriana Francesca Lima is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...

, Erin Wasson
Erin Wasson
Erin Wasson is an American model and occasional stylist and designer. She is of Irish ancestry.-Career:Wasson has graced the covers of numerous fashion magazines, including French, German, Spanish and Australian Vogue, Flair, Numero, Allure, Esquire and Elle, and walked international runways for...

, Diana Dondoe
Diana Dondoe
Diana Dondoe is a Romanian model. She was discovered in Bucharest, Romania by Giani Portmann, a Romanian modelling scout. Dondoe resides in Paris, France...

, Liliane Ferrarezi
Liliane Ferrarezi
Liliane Ferrarezi is a Brazilian model.The daughter of a broker and a housewife, she was born at Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and has a brother and a sister....

, Marija Vujovic
Marija Vujovic
Marija Vujović; born 19 May, 1984 in Titograd, Yugoslavia, now Podgorica, Montenegro) is a Montenegrin model.She has been featured in campaigns for a Dolce & Gabbana fragrance and Yves Saint Laurent's Rive Gauche....

, Valentina
Valentina
Valentina is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the Roman name Valentinus, which is derived from the Latin word "valens" meaning "healthy, strong". Valentina may refer to:- As a sole name :* Valentina , Valentina is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of the Roman name...

2006 Mert Alas
Mert and Marcus
Mert and Marcus are Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, fashion photographers. Their work and style is heavily influenced and shaped by the photography of Guy Bourdin and also the use of digital manipulation which they have pioneered the use of...

 and
Marcus Piggot
Mert and Marcus
Mert and Marcus are Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, fashion photographers. Their work and style is heavily influenced and shaped by the photography of Guy Bourdin and also the use of digital manipulation which they have pioneered the use of...

 
Côte d'Azur Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez , often nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S...

, Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Katherine "Kate" Ann Moss is an English model. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She is known for her waifish figure, uncommonly short height for a fashion model, and appearances in many advertising campaigns. She is also notorious for her high-profile relationships and party lifestyle...

, Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Caroline Bündchen is a Brazilian model, occasional film actress and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program...

, Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova
Natalia Vodianova is a Russian model, actress and philanthropist who now permanently resides in the United Kingdom.-Early life:...

, Karen Elson
Karen Elson
Karen Elson is a British model and singer. Her trademarks are her red hair and her eyebrows, which fashion photographer Steven Meisel once persuaded her to shave off.-Career In Fashion:...

 and Guinevere van Seenius
2007 Inez van Lamsweerde and
Vinoodh Matadin 
studio set Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez , better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress. She gathered critical acclaim as a young actress for films such as Jamón, Jamón, La Niña de tus ojos, and Belle époque. She has also starred in several American films such as Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona...

, Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Italian film actress and an international sex symbol. In 1961, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress for Two Women, becoming the first actor to win an Academy Award for a non-English-speaking performance....

, Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon is a French model and actress. Her father is director Jacques Doillon and her mother is actress Jane Birkin....

, Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi...

, Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts is a British-Australian actress. Watts began her career in Australian Television, where she appeared in commercials and series, including the soap opera Home and Away, the award winning mini-series Brides of Christ and the family sitcom Hey Dad..!...

2008 Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier
Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather brought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...

 
Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city in China, and one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 20 million people. Located on China's central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality of the People's Republic of China with province-level...

, China
China
China is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....

Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn is an English model and singer. Deyn has been hailed as "the fashion industry's next great supermodel".-Early life:Deyn is from Failsworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester...

, Lily Donaldson
Lily Donaldson
Lily Monica Donaldson is a British model. She is the daughter of photographer Matthew Donaldson and wife Tiffany.-Career:...

, Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes is a Dutch-Frisian model and currently one of the Victoria's Secret Angels.- Early life :...

, Catherine McNeil
Catherine McNeil
Catherine McNeil is an Australian fashion model. At fourteen years old, she won a model search contest hosted by Girlfriend....

, Gemma Ward
Gemma Ward
Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian model and actress.-Early life:Gemma Ward was born on 3 November 1987 in Perth, Western Australia, the second of four children to Gary and Claire Ward. Her older sister Sophie is also a model and she has younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry...

, Sasha Pivovarova
Sasha Pivovarova
Sasha Pivovarova is a Russian model and artist. Pivovarova is perhaps best known for her consecutive 6-season run with Prada.- Modeling career :...

, Coco Rocha
Coco Rocha
Mikhaila Rocha , known professionally as Coco Rocha, is a Canadian fashion model.-Early life:Rocha was born in Toronto, Ontario, but moved to Richmond, British Columbia at a very young age. Her family is in the flying industry. Her mother, Juanita Rocha, is a flight attendant and her father is a...

, Caroline Trentini
Caroline Trentini
Caroline Trentini , also known as Carol Trentini, is a Brazilian fashion model.- Early life :Trentini was born in Panambi, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Trentini is the youngest daughter of Lourdes and the late Jacó Trentini, who died when she was one year old. Her older sisters are Franciele and Élen...

, Mo Wandan, Du Juan
Du Juan
Du Juan is a Chinese fashion model. A former Miss China 2003, Du made her runway debut in Spring 2006, walking for prominent designers such as Valentino and Jean-Paul Gaultier....

 & Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man-yuk is a Cannes Best Actress, Berlin Best Actress, five-time Hong Kong Film Award and five-time Taiwan Golden Horse winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983...

2009 Peter Beard  Okavango Delta
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta , in Botswana, is the world's largest inland delta where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert instead of draining into the sea...

, Botswana
Botswana
The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Citizens of Botswana are called "Batswana" , regardless of ethnicity. Formerly a British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...

Mariacarla Boscono
Mariacarla Boscono
Mariacarla Boscono is an Italian model.-Early life:Boscono was born in Rome, Italy. She spent most of her early life travelling because of her father's work. Her parents lived in Thailand before she was born, but after her mother became pregnant they moved to Rome. She spent a couple of years in...

, Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy
Daria Werbowy is a Polish-born Canadian-Ukrainian model.-Personal life:Born in Warsaw, Poland, Werbowy holds both Canadian and Polish citizenship. When she was three years old, Werbowy's Ukrainian parents moved to Mississauga, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has a brother named...

, Malgosia Bela
Malgosia Bela
Małgosia Bela is a Polish fashion model and actress.Bela became a successful runway and editorial model in the late nineties, appearing on the covers of many international editions of Vogue, including Vogue Italia and Vogue Paris...

, Randal Moore, Lara Stone
Lara Stone
Lara Stone is a Dutch model.-Early life:Stone is the daughter of a Dutch mother and a British father. She grew up in the small Dutch town of Mierlo, but dropped out of school to pursue a modeling career in Paris.-Career:Stone was first approached by an agent in the Paris Metro, at age 12...

, Emanuela De Paula
Emanuela de Paula
Emanuela de Paula is a Brazilian model. She has been the face of UK retailer Next for the past two seasons and can be seen in the 2009 Pirelli Calendar.- Biography :...

, and Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana is a Brazilian model.-Early life and discovery:Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. In 1996 she made it to the finals of the Elite Model Look when she was just 13 and in the following year she moved from Southern Brazil to Milan, Italy, to start her modelling...

2010 Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson is an American fashion photographer.Richardson was born in New York City, raised in Hollywood and Ojai, California, and is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson. He attended Hollywood High School and Nordhoff High School in Ojai. He was shy as a teenager and at some times...

 
Trancoso, Bahia
Trancoso, Bahia
Trancoso is a small town in the municipality of Porto Seguro in the state of Bahia, Brazil. It was the landing point of the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Alvares Cabral in Brazil, on April 21, 1500. It was founded by the Jesuits Priest, on 1583, with the name of Saint John Baptist of the Indians.The...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

Catherine McNeil
Catherine McNeil
Catherine McNeil is an Australian fashion model. At fourteen years old, she won a model search contest hosted by Girlfriend....

, Eniko Mihalik
Enikő Mihalik
Enikő Mihalik is a Hungarian model, who rose to prominence after placing 4th in the Elite Model Look 2002, and is also known for her work with Dutch photography team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Enikő currently lives in New York....

, Ana Beatriz Barros
Ana Beatriz Barros
Ana Beatriz Barros is a Brazilian model known for her work with Guess?, Bebe, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLo fashion line.-Early life and family:...

, Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007 and for dating British actor Orlando Bloom. She was the first Australian addition to the Victoria's Secret campaign and was the face of Australian fashion chain Portmans and David Jones Limited...

, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a British model. She is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. Her largest success came in 2008, when she was put on the cover of Vogue, accompanied by models Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn, for the November issue.-Modelling career:In 2003, Huntington-Whiteley...

, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Daisy Lowe
Daisy Lowe
Daisy Rebecca Lowe is an English fashion model who has modelled for editorial photo shoots and commercial advertising campaigns and has worked as a runway model...

 and Lily Cole
Lily Cole
Lily Cole is an English model and actress.-Biography:Cole was born in Torquay, England, and raised in London with her sister Elvie. Cole was educated at the St Marylebone church school for girls, and completed her sixth form studies at Latymer Upper School, an expensive independent school in...


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