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Fernanda Tavares
Tavares in 2015
Born (1980-09-22) September 22, 1980 (age 43)
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
OccupationModel
SpouseMurilo Rosa (2007–present)
Children2
Modeling information
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Hair colorBrown
Eye colorBrown
Agency

Fernanda Tavares (born September 22, 1980) 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. In 1998, at the age of 17, she was already appearing on the covers of fashion magazines – L'Officiel Paris, Deutsch and U.S. Marie Claire and Vogue Paris – having signed up with the Marilyn Modeling Agency in both New York City and Paris. She would later go on to appear in numerous other popular magazines, including ELLE,[2] Cosmopolitan, Allure,[3] and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[4]

Since 1998, Tavares has walked for many notable designers, including Chanel,[4] Emanuel Ungaro, Versace, Blumarine, Chloé, Christian Lacroix, Prada,[4] Salvatore Ferragamo, Valentino, John Galliano, Sonia Rykiel, Yohji Yamamoto, Hervé Léger, Missoni, and Gap. Tavares has helped promote[clarification needed] brands like Versace, Chloé, Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana,[5] Louis Vuitton,[4] Mano, Nine West, Zoomp, and was a top figure in the Ralph Lauren[4] Spring 2000 collection. She signed a $1.3 million deal with perfume company Guerlain and has appeared in the Victoria's Secret catalogs and their 2000 fashion show in Cannes as well as their 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 fashion shows. She has also appeared in anti-fur advertisements for animal rights group PETA.

Tavares hosts Missão MTV, a show modeled after Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that airs on MTV Brasil.

She also enjoys swimming and jogging and she is good friends with fellow Brazilian model, Gisele Bündchen.

She is regarded as the one of many top Brazilian supermodels of the 2000s.

Personal life

She is married to Brazilian actor Murilo Rosa and they have two sons.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Fernanda Tavares - Model".
  2. ^ "HEAVENLY CREATURES". Elle. 20 (5–7). 2005. Brazilians such as the amply curvaceous Caroline Ribeiro, Fernanda Tavares, and (official spokeswoman for the push-up bra) Gisele Bündchen have dominated the catwalk in recent years.
  3. ^ "Versace". Allure. 13 (5–8): 56. 2003. Versace Intensive Revitalizing eye masks were a hit with the show's makeup artists, who smoothed the cooling gel patches under the eyes of models such as Karolina Kurkova, Fernanda Tavares, Amber Valletta
  4. ^ a b c d e Hendrix, Kelsey (25 September 2015). "Yu (Tsai) and Me: Fernanda Tavares". Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  5. ^ Wee, Sui-Lee (23 November 2018). "Dolce & Gabbana's social media crisis in China underlines perils for luxury brands". The Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 30 January 2019. Photo, 2002: Fernanda Tavares with Dolce, Gabbana, Gisele Bündchen, Esther Cañadas, and Naomi Campbell at the unveiling of the Dolce & Gabbana men's fashion collection for the Spring/Summer 2003, in Milan.
  6. ^ Rodrigues, Cristiane (17 March 2017). "Fernanda Tavares celebra 10 anos com Murilo Rosa: 'Momento único'". EGO Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 January 2019.

External links

2000–2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
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