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Amanda Moore

Amanda Moore's photoGETTY

Nationality:
American
Birthday:
September 10, 1979
Born in:
Pensacola, Florida
Lives now:
New York, NY
Agencies:
IMG
Known for:
My legs, my style
Status:
Bad girl, established, retired (mostly)
Dated:
Kate Young, Katherine Moennig
Friends with:
Carolyn Murphy, Charlotte Ronson, Emily Sandberg, Guinevere van Seenus, Liya Kebede, Milla Jovovich , Tasha Tilberg
Interests:
Basketball, speaking French

Career

Lanvin, 2006

Sep 10, 1979
Born in Pensacola, Florida
1994
Starts college with hopes of becoming a veterinarian
1998
Signs with NEXT models
May 2000
Featured on the cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel
Sep 2000
Debuts at the spring Gucci, Costume National, and Nina Ricci shows in Milan and Paris
2000
Career peaks with a frenzy of magazines covers and runway bookings
2001
Signs fragrance contract with Emporio Armani's Get Together
2001
Becomes the face of Costume National
Oct 2001
Appears on the cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel
2002
Shoots the D&G ad campaign with Naomi Campbell
Jan 2002
Featured on the cover of Italian Vogue, with Carmen Kass and Bridget Hall, photographed by Steven Meisel
2002
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin photographs Moore for Balenciaga
May 2002
Appears in Numéro editorial, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
Jul 2002
Opens the fall Anne Valerie Hash couture show in Paris
2002
Appears in BCBG Max Azria fall ad campaign
2003
Signs cosmetics contract with Yves Saint Laurent
Feb 2003
Opens the fall Balenciaga show in New York
Feb 2003
Closes the Proenza Schouler fall show in New York
Apr 2003
Appears on the cover of Italian Glamour
2003
Patrick Demarchelier photographs Moore for Tommy Hilfiger, with Liya Kebede and Karolina Kurkova
Aug 2003
Appears in i-D editorial, photographed by Robert Wyatt
Aug 2003
Punches a man at a bar in Union Square for making out with her girlfriend, Kate Young, an ex-Vogue staffer
Sep 2003
Walks the spring Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, and Givenchy shows in New York, Milan, and Paris
Dec 2003
Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Robert Wyatt
2004
Appears in the Pirelli calendar
Feb 2004
Walks the fall Proenza Schouler, Helmut Lang, Fendi, MaxMara, Chanel, and Stella McCartney shows in New York, Milan, and Paris
Jul 24, 2004
Named a de facto lesbian style icon by The New York Times, who characterizes her as “uncommonly open about her sexuality”
Aug 2004
Plays bar trivia at Rocky Sullivan’s in New York, in which her team, the Busted Bitches, comes in third place
Jan 2005
Appears on a ModelTV program exposing the life of models
Feb 2005
Disappears from the fall runways, prompting speculation about her retirement
Mar 2006
Remerges into the spotlight with a new haircut (short peroxide crop somewhere between a faux-hawk and a mullet) on the cover of Italian Vogue, shot by Steven Meisel with an accompanying 32-page editorial
2006
Becomes one of the faces of Lanvin, photographed by Steven Meisel
Sep 2006
Appears on the cover of Numéro, photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino
Oct 2006
Returns to the runway, opening the spring Lanvin show in Paris
2006
Signs fragrance contract with Lanvin’s Rumeur, in which Moore is duplicated many times in a design that suggests the numerous “rumors” surrounding her; photographed by Solve Sundsbo
2006
Appears in the winter edition of Dansk

Quoted

“I never wanted to be a model—I was a basketball player. ”

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