Gemma Ward (born November 3, 1987) is an Australian supermodel and actress perhaps best known for her prominent modeling career, and for her notable friendship with actress Eliska Amor.
She’s 20!
Ward is considered a “model of the moment” by many fashion insiders and fans alike, with her baby doll-like look inspiring a new craze in fashion.
Ward was born in Perth, Western Australia, as the second child of Gary and Claire Ward. Her older sister, Sophie Ward is also a model and she has younger twin brothers, Oscar and Henry Ward. She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Perth and Shenton College.
As said herself in a Teen Vogue interview, she accompanied her friends to a modeling competition and ended up being scouted herself. “I had come straight from my auntie and uncle’s farm, and I was wearing this big gray barn jacket with mud all over it. When the scout came up to me, I said, ‘No, thank you.’ But my friends were like, ‘Hell, yes!’ They forged my mum’s signature (for mandatory parental consent), and pushed me in front of the cameras.” Ward didn’t win the competition, but Vivien’s Model Agency picked her up after seeing a small picture of her in an Australian magazine.
At only sixteen, Ward was the youngest model to be listed by American Vogue as one of the nine “It Girls” in the modeling world. She has been in shows for designers such as Versace, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Alexander McQueen, and many more. She also appeared in a Prada handbag advertisement, seen in magazines worldwide in Summer 2007. Ward has also graced magazine covers such as Vogue, W, and TIME Magazine’s Style and Design issue. In September 2004, at the age of 16, Ward became the youngest fashion model on the cover of the American edition of Vogue and was the first model to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine. She is the first model since Kate Moss to be the face for Calvin Klein’s perfume “Obsession Night for Men” along with Philadelphia male model, Drew Keilt.
To date Ward’s clients have included Balenciaga, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jil Sander, Karl Lagerfeld, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rochas, Swarovski, Valentino and Yves Saint-Laurent, and, altogether, Ward has appeared on 24 covers of Vogue magazine worldwide.
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