To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), this month we present a special series about women who have marked the history of photography, from great photographers to the most clicked women of recent decades, we tell you a little bit about the lives of those who have contributed to our visual culture. In our fifth article in the series, the chosen one is nothing more than Gisele Bendchen, the most clicked supermodel of all time.
Born in Horizontina, a small town on the Grande do Sul River, to a family of German descendants, Gisele is not only the highest-paid model in the world, but also the most photographed. The girl who dreamed of being a volleyball player was discovered at the age of fourteen by a scout while taking a course to improve her posture.
- As a teenager.
- Gisele was taken to Sao Paulo.
- Where she signed the first contract.
- After many did not.
- His career began to take off.
- In 1996.
- He went to New York for the first time.
- Beginning his international career.
- Three years later.
- The queen of the catwalks made her first cover of Vogue.
- The following year.
- In 2000.
- She reappeared on the cover of the fashion bible.
- This time as “model of the year”.
Gisele Bendchen has become famous all over the world for breaking the stereotype of the model very thin and sick. The curves, sympathy and professionalism of the Brazilian have taken Gisele to a level that has not yet reached any other model: the most photographed. , the highest paid, the one with the highest number of covers in magazines around the world. The girl from the interior of Brazil has worked with the most renowned photographers in the world of fashion, from Mario Testino to Steven Meisel.
His extensive program also includes advertisements, fashion shows and campaigns for renowned brands such as Victoria’s Secret, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce
The model also uses her fame and image to defend many social causes, mainly in Africa, and for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, to which she contributes by donating a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of her line of sandals made in Brazil. In September 2009, Gisele became United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Affairs.
Gisele Saidchen announced her retirement from the catwalks in 2015 to give priority to her family, she is married to soccer star Tom Brady, with whom she has two children, despite this, he continues to do photographic campaigns and dedicate himself to humanitarian causes, especially. those related to the environment.
With an incredible, dazzling and versatile career, the woman who as a child dreamed of playing volleyball became synonymous with contemporary fashion, her legacy in the industry of which she is a part is indisputable, as many experts in the field have said, many still have models to come, but none will reach the level that Bendchen has reached, because it is already the history of fashion , photography.