Laurent threatened to withdraw his advertising from the magazine if it didn't place Naomi on its cover. In August 1988, she became the first black model to appear on the cover of French Vogue, after designer Yves St. When faced with racial discrimination, Campbell received support from her white friends she later quoted Turlington and Evangelista as telling Dolce & Gabbana, "If you don't use Naomi, you don't get us." In December 1987, she appeared on the cover of British Vogue, as that publication's first black cover girl since 1966. By the late 1980s, Campbell, with Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista, had formed a trio known as the "Trinity", who became the most recognisable and in-demand models of their generation. Over the next few years, Campbell walked the catwalk for such designers as Gianni Versace, Azzedine Alaïa, and Isaac Mizrahi and posed for such photographers as Peter Lindbergh, Herb Ritts, and Bruce Weber. In April, just before her 16th birthday she appeared on the cover of British Elle. In 1986, while still a student of the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, Campbell was scouted by Beth Boldt, head of the Synchro Model Agency, while window-shopping in Covent Garden. She had studied dance from age 3 to 16, and originally intended to be a dancer. She tap-danced in 1983 in the music video for Culture Club's " I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and "Mistake number 3", in 1984. In 1978 at age 8, Campbell made her first public appearance in the music video for Bob Marley's " Is This Love". From age three, Campbell attended the Barbara Speake Stage School and at age 10 she was accepted into the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where she studied ballet. On their return to London, she lived with relatives while her mother travelled across Europe with the dance troupe Fantastica. Ĭampbell spent her early years in Rome, Italy, where her mother worked as a modern dancer. Her Chinese heritage comes through her paternal grandmother, whose surname was Ming. Campbell is of Black-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent. Her half-brother Pierre was born in 1985. She took the surname "Campbell" from her mother's second marriage. In accordance with her mother's wishes, Campbell has never met her father, who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant and went unnamed on her birth certificate. Naomi Elaine Campbell was born in Lambeth, South London to Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris on. Campbell is also involved in charity work for various causes. In addition to her modelling career, Campbell has embarked on other ventures, including an R&B studio album and several acting appearances in film and television, such as the modelling-competition reality show The Face and its international offshoots. She was the first black woman to appear on the covers of Time, Vogue France, and British Vogue. Beginning her career at the age of 15, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. Naomi Elaine Campbell (born ) is an English model.
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