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Asian Fashion Models Biography
The faces of white women and men, mostly from Eastern Europe, stare out from billboards, from the facades of glitzy, glass-fronted malls and from fashion magazines in India. At an international automobile show last month in New Delhi, most of the models were white.
The presence of Caucasian models in Indian advertisements has grown in the past three years, industry analysts say. The trend reflects deep cultural preferences for fair skin in this predominantly brown-skinned nation of more than 1 billion people. But analysts say the fondness for "fair" is also fueled by a globalized economy that has drawn ever more models from Europe to cities such as Mumbai, India's cultural capital.
"Indians have a longing for that pure, beautiful white skin. It is too deep-rooted in our psyche," said Enakshi Chakraborty, who heads Eskimo India, a modeling agency that brings East European models here. "Advertisers for international as well as Indian brands call me and say, 'We are looking for a gori [Hindi for white] model with dark hair.' Some ask, 'Do you have white girls who are Indian-looking?' They want white girls who suit the Indian palate."
Family elders commonly comment on a newborn baby's color, after checking out the gender. One of the best-selling skin creams in India is called Fair & Lovely. A men's version, Fair and Handsome, was launched last year.
"The Indian mind-set prefers light skin. My pictures are routinely Photoshopped to make me look a bit lighter -- a lot lighter, actually," Riya Ray, 23, a dark-skinned Indian model, said with a laugh. "But when I work in Britain and France, my color is praised as exotic. It is a two-way trend: Indian models are going abroad, and foreign models are coming here."
Advertisers say that white female models appeal to them because they are typically less inhibited than their Indian counterparts when it comes to showing skin and posing in lingerie.
International fashion magazines in India, such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire and Vogue, regularly feature white women in their spreads. The fashion features editor of Vogue's Indian edition, Bandana Tiwari, calls the approach "going glocal," combining the words "global" and "local" to describe the new urban Indian consumer.
"When we put the white model in Indian clothes, it is a cultural exchange. It shows India's economic self-confidence," Tiwari said. "Of course, it also caters to the general feeling that 'fair' and 'beautiful' go together. For a rickshaw-puller who earns 2 dollars a day, seeing a fair-skinned woman is an escape, a fantasy."
One of India’s top ramp models Monikangana Dutta who has created waves with her oriental charm on several fashion weeks in India and abroad, will be seen making her Bollywood debut in the upcoming movie Guzaarish alongside Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai.
Looking beautiful like never before Monikangana Dutta, who is from Guwahati started her modeling career in Paris and has appeared in top fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue.
Model Monikangana Dutta, who would debut in Bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Guzaarish', seems to be in no mood to hang up her boots on the ramp for the tinsel town.
"I have not given up modelling. I have been selected as one of the six Victoria's Secret Angels, the world famous brand synonymous with chic women wear," she said.
Monikangana, who earlier appeared in fashion magazines like 'Elle' and 'Vogue', is the first Indian model to be one of the six Victoria's Secret Angels i.e. main models. The others include the likes of Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio and Australian Miranda Kerr.
Coming back to 'Guzaarish', the model-turned-actress refused to divulge details about her character Estella Francis in the movie toplining Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
However, she said she has a dance with Hrithik in the movie for which the director had put her in a dancing school. "The character is very much like what I have gone through in my personal life. When Sanjay sir narrated the character to me, I said I have to do this role," she said.
Monikangana Dutta is a new bollywood movies actress and a super model based in Mumbai, India. She is represented by the IMG Models. Recently, she is working in bollywood movie debut, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. She is resident of Guwahati, Assam and studied in the Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
Young school girl from Assam grew up as “daddy’s girl” but soon found out that if she desired to get the earth under her feet, she has to leave all this behind. After completion of school graduation, Monikangana Dutta moved to Delhi for higher studies and a turning point of Monikangana Dutta’s life came when the Metropolitan Top Model Contest started. In this contest, she was one of the top five. From then, she never looked back and she knew that she would be a triumphant model. Afterward she was invited to go to Paris. Finally Monikangana Dutta become a supermodel after a lot of struggling.
Monikangana is different model from India’s hottest flow of models. She has worked her way to be the most acknowledged and talked about models just after the two years in the ramps. She is a very super hot and sexy model and famous Kingfisher calendar girl.
Monikangana Dutta is also set to model for Victoria’s Secret. The supermodel fondly known as Moni. She is the first Indian to represent the prestigious brand. She is one of the India’s top ramp models who have created waves with her oriental magnetism on a number of fashion weeks in India and abroad.
Monikangana Dutta has worked for Elle, Vogue, and other magazines as well as innumerable fashion shows & brands. Looking gorgeous like never before Monikangana Dutta, who has appeared in top fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue.
“Being signed by IMG is like when you dream of something and you wait for years and years and then suddenly it’s in your hands,” Ms Dutta said. “I’m so excited but very stressed because it’s my first show in Australia and I have to give 100 per cent.”
As for Vogue, “When Vogue called me I couldn’t believe it, it’s every girl’s dream to be on the cover, and there I was with five of the most beautiful girls in the world.”!!
Monikangana Dutta will be shortly in Milan for photo shoot of Victoria’s Secret Angel. Monikangana Dutta is the first Indian to represent the prestigious women’s elegant brand, Victoria’s Secret which is the manufacturer for lingerie, women’s clothing and accessories.
Moni is symbolized by worldwide modeling agency IMG, which also symbolizes names like Bundchen and Naomi Campbell. Moni said, about her Bollywood debut that she was originally not interested in acting. She rejected a number of film offers that had been coming her way. At last, Moni went to the acting school only for a few days before deciding that she was ready to take a fall into Bollywood.
She claimed that her role in Guzaarish was “different” but couldn’t disclose much about the film or her role at this stage. “All I can say is that I play Hrithik Roshan’s love interest in the film. It will be a tough task for me to choose next films after working with a filmmaker of Bhansali’s stature,” she said.
I am Moni Kangana Dutta and I am a Model & Actress based in Mumbai, India. I am currently working on a feature film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. I am not going to say anything about the story. For that, you have to watch the movie and yes, send me some love. I can also use some of your best wishes. Hehehe! ;-)
I have worked for Elle, Vogue, and other magazines as well as countless fashion shows & brands. As for Vogue, “When Vogue called me I couldn’t believe it, it’s every girl’s dream to be on the cover, and there I was with five of the most beautiful girls in the world.”!!
I am represented by the IMG which also represents Gisele Bundchen. “Being signed by IMG is like when you dream of something and you wait for years and years and then suddenly it’s in your hands,” Ms Dutta said. “I’m so excited but very stressed because it’s my first show in Australia and I have to give 100 per cent.”
Simon Lock, founder of AFW and head of IMG models and fashion Asia Pacific. : “Moni is so exotically beautiful, she’s representing the new, more internationally reflective face of fashion,”
Asian Fashion Models Biography
The faces of white women and men, mostly from Eastern Europe, stare out from billboards, from the facades of glitzy, glass-fronted malls and from fashion magazines in India. At an international automobile show last month in New Delhi, most of the models were white.
The presence of Caucasian models in Indian advertisements has grown in the past three years, industry analysts say. The trend reflects deep cultural preferences for fair skin in this predominantly brown-skinned nation of more than 1 billion people. But analysts say the fondness for "fair" is also fueled by a globalized economy that has drawn ever more models from Europe to cities such as Mumbai, India's cultural capital.
"Indians have a longing for that pure, beautiful white skin. It is too deep-rooted in our psyche," said Enakshi Chakraborty, who heads Eskimo India, a modeling agency that brings East European models here. "Advertisers for international as well as Indian brands call me and say, 'We are looking for a gori [Hindi for white] model with dark hair.' Some ask, 'Do you have white girls who are Indian-looking?' They want white girls who suit the Indian palate."
Family elders commonly comment on a newborn baby's color, after checking out the gender. One of the best-selling skin creams in India is called Fair & Lovely. A men's version, Fair and Handsome, was launched last year.
"The Indian mind-set prefers light skin. My pictures are routinely Photoshopped to make me look a bit lighter -- a lot lighter, actually," Riya Ray, 23, a dark-skinned Indian model, said with a laugh. "But when I work in Britain and France, my color is praised as exotic. It is a two-way trend: Indian models are going abroad, and foreign models are coming here."
Advertisers say that white female models appeal to them because they are typically less inhibited than their Indian counterparts when it comes to showing skin and posing in lingerie.
International fashion magazines in India, such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire and Vogue, regularly feature white women in their spreads. The fashion features editor of Vogue's Indian edition, Bandana Tiwari, calls the approach "going glocal," combining the words "global" and "local" to describe the new urban Indian consumer.
"When we put the white model in Indian clothes, it is a cultural exchange. It shows India's economic self-confidence," Tiwari said. "Of course, it also caters to the general feeling that 'fair' and 'beautiful' go together. For a rickshaw-puller who earns 2 dollars a day, seeing a fair-skinned woman is an escape, a fantasy."
One of India’s top ramp models Monikangana Dutta who has created waves with her oriental charm on several fashion weeks in India and abroad, will be seen making her Bollywood debut in the upcoming movie Guzaarish alongside Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai.
Looking beautiful like never before Monikangana Dutta, who is from Guwahati started her modeling career in Paris and has appeared in top fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue.
Model Monikangana Dutta, who would debut in Bollywood with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Guzaarish', seems to be in no mood to hang up her boots on the ramp for the tinsel town.
"I have not given up modelling. I have been selected as one of the six Victoria's Secret Angels, the world famous brand synonymous with chic women wear," she said.
Monikangana, who earlier appeared in fashion magazines like 'Elle' and 'Vogue', is the first Indian model to be one of the six Victoria's Secret Angels i.e. main models. The others include the likes of Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio and Australian Miranda Kerr.
Coming back to 'Guzaarish', the model-turned-actress refused to divulge details about her character Estella Francis in the movie toplining Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
However, she said she has a dance with Hrithik in the movie for which the director had put her in a dancing school. "The character is very much like what I have gone through in my personal life. When Sanjay sir narrated the character to me, I said I have to do this role," she said.
Monikangana Dutta is a new bollywood movies actress and a super model based in Mumbai, India. She is represented by the IMG Models. Recently, she is working in bollywood movie debut, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. She is resident of Guwahati, Assam and studied in the Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi.
Young school girl from Assam grew up as “daddy’s girl” but soon found out that if she desired to get the earth under her feet, she has to leave all this behind. After completion of school graduation, Monikangana Dutta moved to Delhi for higher studies and a turning point of Monikangana Dutta’s life came when the Metropolitan Top Model Contest started. In this contest, she was one of the top five. From then, she never looked back and she knew that she would be a triumphant model. Afterward she was invited to go to Paris. Finally Monikangana Dutta become a supermodel after a lot of struggling.
Monikangana is different model from India’s hottest flow of models. She has worked her way to be the most acknowledged and talked about models just after the two years in the ramps. She is a very super hot and sexy model and famous Kingfisher calendar girl.
Monikangana Dutta is also set to model for Victoria’s Secret. The supermodel fondly known as Moni. She is the first Indian to represent the prestigious brand. She is one of the India’s top ramp models who have created waves with her oriental magnetism on a number of fashion weeks in India and abroad.
Monikangana Dutta has worked for Elle, Vogue, and other magazines as well as innumerable fashion shows & brands. Looking gorgeous like never before Monikangana Dutta, who has appeared in top fashion magazines like Elle and Vogue.
“Being signed by IMG is like when you dream of something and you wait for years and years and then suddenly it’s in your hands,” Ms Dutta said. “I’m so excited but very stressed because it’s my first show in Australia and I have to give 100 per cent.”
As for Vogue, “When Vogue called me I couldn’t believe it, it’s every girl’s dream to be on the cover, and there I was with five of the most beautiful girls in the world.”!!
Monikangana Dutta will be shortly in Milan for photo shoot of Victoria’s Secret Angel. Monikangana Dutta is the first Indian to represent the prestigious women’s elegant brand, Victoria’s Secret which is the manufacturer for lingerie, women’s clothing and accessories.
Moni is symbolized by worldwide modeling agency IMG, which also symbolizes names like Bundchen and Naomi Campbell. Moni said, about her Bollywood debut that she was originally not interested in acting. She rejected a number of film offers that had been coming her way. At last, Moni went to the acting school only for a few days before deciding that she was ready to take a fall into Bollywood.
She claimed that her role in Guzaarish was “different” but couldn’t disclose much about the film or her role at this stage. “All I can say is that I play Hrithik Roshan’s love interest in the film. It will be a tough task for me to choose next films after working with a filmmaker of Bhansali’s stature,” she said.
I am Moni Kangana Dutta and I am a Model & Actress based in Mumbai, India. I am currently working on a feature film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. I am not going to say anything about the story. For that, you have to watch the movie and yes, send me some love. I can also use some of your best wishes. Hehehe! ;-)
I have worked for Elle, Vogue, and other magazines as well as countless fashion shows & brands. As for Vogue, “When Vogue called me I couldn’t believe it, it’s every girl’s dream to be on the cover, and there I was with five of the most beautiful girls in the world.”!!
I am represented by the IMG which also represents Gisele Bundchen. “Being signed by IMG is like when you dream of something and you wait for years and years and then suddenly it’s in your hands,” Ms Dutta said. “I’m so excited but very stressed because it’s my first show in Australia and I have to give 100 per cent.”
Simon Lock, founder of AFW and head of IMG models and fashion Asia Pacific. : “Moni is so exotically beautiful, she’s representing the new, more internationally reflective face of fashion,”
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