Gail O’Neill, the fashion model who worked with brands like Michael Kors and Ralph Lauren, and also served as a TV correspondent for CBS, CNN and HGTV, has died. She was 61.
The model was in her Atlanta home when she died on Oct. 10, her former Click Model agent Stephanie Grill told The Hollywood Reporter. Her cause of death was not immediately known.
O’Neill was discovered by photographer Chuck Baker and his stylist wife Martha, who approached her at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in 1985. She was doing marketing for Xerox at the time, and by the following year, she was on the cover of British Vogue.
It didn’t take very long for her career to take off after that. She landed modeling gigs with famous photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Elgort, Gilles Bensimon, Steven Meisel, Albert Watson, Fabrizio Ferri, Alex Chatelain and Patrick Demarchelier.
She covered American and Italian Vogue,...
The model was in her Atlanta home when she died on Oct. 10, her former Click Model agent Stephanie Grill told The Hollywood Reporter. Her cause of death was not immediately known.
O’Neill was discovered by photographer Chuck Baker and his stylist wife Martha, who approached her at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in 1985. She was doing marketing for Xerox at the time, and by the following year, she was on the cover of British Vogue.
It didn’t take very long for her career to take off after that. She landed modeling gigs with famous photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Elgort, Gilles Bensimon, Steven Meisel, Albert Watson, Fabrizio Ferri, Alex Chatelain and Patrick Demarchelier.
She covered American and Italian Vogue,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He’s been crowned “The King of Models” by The New York Times, but Piero Piazzi, president of the modeling agency Women Management (part of the global giant Elite World Group), has never particularly liked that label.
“It’s an expression that always made me laugh,” he says, before jokingly adding “I don’t believe in monarchy!”
Marpessa Hennink, Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni, Eva Riccobono, Maria Carla Boscono and Lea T are just some of the names Piazzi discovered and represented in the 1980s, an era in which now-household names like Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Kate Moss (Campbell is currently represented by Piazzi) became global superstars and helped to usher in the age of the supermodel.
THR Roma caught up with Piazzi, 60, at the European Parliament headquarters in Rome, where he was being presented with the Fashion Dresses Peace award for To Get There Ets, the non-profit association for...
“It’s an expression that always made me laugh,” he says, before jokingly adding “I don’t believe in monarchy!”
Marpessa Hennink, Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni, Eva Riccobono, Maria Carla Boscono and Lea T are just some of the names Piazzi discovered and represented in the 1980s, an era in which now-household names like Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Kate Moss (Campbell is currently represented by Piazzi) became global superstars and helped to usher in the age of the supermodel.
THR Roma caught up with Piazzi, 60, at the European Parliament headquarters in Rome, where he was being presented with the Fashion Dresses Peace award for To Get There Ets, the non-profit association for...
- 6/21/2023
- by Pino Gagliardi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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