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Agyness Deyn Profile |
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Birth Date: February 16, 1983
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Birth Place: Littleborough, Manchester, UK
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Birth Name: Laura Hollins
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Agyness Deyn is an English model and singer. Deyn has been
hailed as "the fashion industry's next great supermodel".
Deyn is from Failsworth in the Metropolitan Borough of
Oldham, Greater Manchester. The daughter of a nurse,
Lorraine, and second of three children she attended All
Saints RC High School, as well as Bacup and Rawtenstall
Grammar School and Sixth Form in Waterfoot, Rossendale.
Deyn's name was apparently coined to further her modelling
career after she consulted her mother's friend, a numerology
expert who advised her of the most 'fortuitous' way to spell
the name 'Agnes'. It was reported that her mother Lorraine
and sister Emily have both changed their surname to Deyn,
while Lorraine has changed the I in her first name to Y.
Deyn's working life started serving part-time aged 13, at a
fish and chip shop in Ramsbottom. Even at an early age she
had an eye for style and by 17 she had already had her head
shaved. "I’ve had short hair since I was 13, and when I was
17, I had a skinhead." In 1999, she won the Rossendale Free
Press "Face of '99" competition, aged just 16. She then
moved to London, working in a fast-food restaurant during
the day and a bar at night but admits: "It didn’t quite
work." During this time she says she was also at college in
Hull, studying drama and music. |
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Is a member of a band named "Lucky Knitwear".
The Face & Figure of fashion giants Burberry, Giorgio Armani
and Galliano, she even has a handbag/purse named after her -
Mulberry's Putty-colored Agyness bag. [2008]
Voted British Fashion Council Model of the Year. [2007]
Became an overnight supermodel when she landed on the
November 2006 cover of Italian "Vogue" magazine, a striking
portrait photographed by Steven Meisel.
Discovered browsing in London's Kentish Town district.
On 19th February 2008 appeared on the cover of the TIME
magazine Style & Design issue.
Is the professional muse of designer Christopher Bailey of
Burberry Prorsum label.
Is employed by the agencies DNA, Viva and Why Not.
Has over taken Kate Moss as the most glamorous face of
fashion since 2007. |
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since October 22, 2009