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Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a South Sudanese-British model and designer who began her fashion career at the age of 18 in 1995. She has been hailed for her influence on the perception of beauty in the fashion industry.
Oct 20, 2020 · As one of a handful of darker-skinned Black models in the industry at the time, Wek blazed her own trail, lighting the way of a new generation with her trademark gap-tooth smile, endless legs,...
Dec 17, 2015 · Vogue.com's Senior Fashion and Culture Editor. The first movie she ever saw was Back to the Future Part II and she's been waiting patiently for a pair of self-lacing shoes ever...
Oct 31, 2021 · Alek Wek reflects on a life’s work. Alice Birrell 31 Oct 2021. The supermodel chats with Vogue to take stock of a decades-long career, and how she’s channelling her storied past into her fashion future. From her arresting images with greats Irving Penn, Arthur Elgort and Herb Ritts to countless covers and runways, there is only one Alek Wek.
Jan 1, 2014 · Alek Wek is as much a supermodel as she is a girl-next-door. Wek has commanded the runways of fashion designers such as: Chanel; Hermes; Donna Karan; Christian Lacroix and Zac Posen.
Sep 6, 2022 · Since your debut in the mid 1990s, you’ve made fashion history several times over, including when you became the first African “bride” to close a Chanel haute couture show. Now, at 45, what do you...
Feb 9, 2018 · Born in Wau, South Sudan, 40-year-old Alek Wek fled the civil war in her country to London in 1991 at the age of 14. She was discovered in 1995 at an outdoor market in Crystal Palace, London by a...
Sep 1, 2021 · Alek Wek is spinning around the courtyard of a hotel in Brooklyn, her printed dress blurring into abstraction, with a smile as wide as her ears. At 44, the supermodel still holds the same...
Apr 12, 2019 · A refugee turned supermodel, turned activist, and UN ambassador, Alek Wek has squeezed all of life’s lemons and made what may be the antidote the world is needing right now. It has nothing to do with what happens to us, but with what we do with it.
Nov 23, 2015 · Alek Wek. Alek Wek went from dodging bullets in the south of Sudan to becoming one of the world's most sought after models. She talks to Anne Soy about her...
