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They're beautiful, that's obvious. But they have something else: presence, or maybe allure, fascination or magic. Whatever it is, it hits the instant one sees Naomi Campbell in a yellow totem gown, a Nefertiti of the '90s. Or Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek...
...himself to Paris, and lured a number of top models away from rival agencies. Six months ago, the Fords -- Eileen runs the business with her husband Jerry -- opened an office in Paris, headed by their daughter Katie. The Fords scored a major coup in July when they announced that Naomi Campbell would be represented by Ford for all her Paris work; Elite will continue to handle her New York assignments...
...Pillard contend that Elite was entitled to handle the job since the agency represents Campbell in New York. At one point they even fired their star model, but soon reconciled. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this," fumes Pillard. "I spent three years trying to shove Naomi down S.I.'s throat." The Fords insist that since the photo shoot was in Europe, Ford France was entitled to handle the assignment...
...What is particularly unusal about Naomi is her ability to attack the same subject from many different points of view," says Norm Carlin, who studied with Pierce in the Biology Department at exocrine biology--she's remarkably well-versed in a number of different areas...
...that's where you'll find Naomi Pierce...