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really ambitious. Naomi's idea is good - I'd do an
agency for Black girls because there aren't enough
of them on the runway
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DUNN
teenage
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Jourdan Dunn
reportedly doesn't appreciate being described as
the supermodel discovered shopping in Primark.
"I was mucking about with sunglasses - my
friend was shopping," she insists
She was 17 at the time and in and among the
'no-name' labels of the high street clothing
store, now, two years later she's seems equally
comfortable with brands such as Louis Vuitton,
Valentino and Prada. In fact she
recently became the first Black model on Prada's
catwalk in Milan since Naomi Campbell
(1997), which isn't bad for the teenager from
Greenford in West London.
Her discovery, not that she was ever lost, is
similar to that of the fiery Naomi Campbell who
was spotted as a teenager shopping for trinkets in
London's Covent Garden. It's not the only thing
she shares with the veteran catwalk queen. She
commented in The Observer magazine recently that
she'd like to go into business and set up an
agency for Black models as suggested by Campbell.
Apparently a remark she'd made during London
Fashion Week in February 2008 about catwalks being
very 'white' caused a stir as it would.
Non-industry watchers would be hard pressed to
conjure up Black British names other than Campbell
earning top-dollar on the catwalk. Tyra Banks
is 80s/90s and American, Iman pre-dates her
and Noemie Lenoir the face on M&S
billboards is French.
Despite the shortage Dunn, who is signed to the
Storm modelling agency, will continue to provide
inspiration for years to come.
In-between shoots abd jetting half-way across the
world, the 19-year-old lives with her mother and
two younger brothers in west London.
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