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Amber Valletta

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    Amber Valletta View off-the-runway photos
    Nationality
    American
    Birth Date
    February 9, 1974
    Lives Now
    Los Angeles, CA
    Status
    Cover girl, Retired (mostly), Supermodel
    Known for
    Charity work, Eyes, Legs
    Agencies
    DNA
    Dated
    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Friends
    Shalom Harlow, Karen Mulder, Yasmeen Ghauri, Niki Taylor, Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni, Angie Harmon, Stella Tennant
    Children
    Auden (Born 10/00)
    Married
    Hervé Le Bihan , Christian McCaw
    Model Turned
    TV personality (MTV‘s House of Style), Activist (Oceana‘s Seafood Contamination Campaign), Actress (Unzipped, 1995; Hitch, 2005; My Sexiest Year, 2007), Designer

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    Amber Valletta's Career Highlights

    9 FEB, 1974
    Born in Phoenix, Arizona
    1989
    Enrolls at the Linda Layman Agency modeling school
    1991
    Signs contract with Calvin Klein’s Eternity fragrance
    1993
    Becomes the face of Giorgio Armani
    1993
    Walks the Valentino couture show in Paris
    1993
    Lands on the covers of Elle, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar
    1994
    Marries male model Hervé Le Bihan
    1994
    Appears in Calvin Klein Escape ad campaign with husband Hervé Le Bihan
    DEC 1994
    Appears on the cover of British Vogue
    1995
    Becomes the face of Gucci and Versace
    1995
    Organizes charity fashion-show Supermodels Stepping Out Against Hunger
    11 AUG, 1995
    Makes film debut as herself in fashion film Unzipped
    SEP 1995
    Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Shalom Harlow
    1996
    Divorces Hervé Le Bihan
    JAN 1996
    Lands on cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel
    1996
    Lands on the cover of British Vogue three times (February, May, December)
    1996
    Appears in print ads for Versace
    1996
    Co-hosts MTV’s House of Style with friend and model Shalom Harlow
    1997
    Face of Elizabeth Arden in an exclusive worldwide campaign
    MAR 1997
    Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Amber Valletta
    APR 1997
    Lands on the cover of Vogue alongside Carolyn Murphy and Shalom Harlow
    SEP 1997
    Lands on the cover of British Vogue, photographed by Mario Testino
    1998
    Appears in Prada, Armani, Calvin Klein, and Fendi campaigns
    JUL 1998
    Appears on cover of British Vogue
    1999
    Appears in an editorial for Italian Vogue dressed as Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens
    1999
    Gives up alcohol
    MAR 1999
    Lands on the cover of i-D, photographed by Richard Burbridge
    2000
    Pregnant with first child, takes modeling hiatus
    21 JUL, 2000
    Plays role of the ghost that haunts a Vermont lakeside home in What Lies Beneath
    FEB 2001
    Opens and closes the Anna Sui fall show in New York
    JUL 2001
    Opens and closes the Versace fall couture show in Paris
    2003
    Begins dating Christian McCaw
    28 MAY, 2004
    Plays Martina alongside Kate Hudson in Raising Helen
    2005
    Gets punked when a choking man in a restaurant threatens to sue her after she tries to save him
    2005
    Becomes the spokesperson for Oceania’s Seafood Contamination Campaign after a friend gets mercury poisoning
    AUG 2006
    Goes to Meadows rehab center in Arizona for stress-related problems
    2007
    Signs on to play anchorwoman in Days of Wrath
    2007
    Cast as a top international model in My Sexiest Year
    JUL 2007
    Walks in the epic Dior couture 60th-anniversary collection in Paris
    25 AUG, 2007
    Named Vogue's third best dressed of the week in a navy Ossie Clark dress Photo»
    2008
    Renews contract with Stella McCartney
    MAR 2008
    Appears in a W editorial, March 2008. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
    MAY 2008
    Escorts David Yurman to the Costume Institute Gala
    JUN 2008
    Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Tom Craig
    2008
    Steven Meisel photographs Valletta for DSqaured2 with Boyd Holbrook
    2008
    Replaces Mischa Barton as the face of Iceberg for fall, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott
    AUG 2008
    Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Klein
    2008
    Sebastian Faena photographs Valletta for the fall cover of POP
    SEP 2008
    Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
    2008
    Sebastian Faena photographs Valletta for the winter issue of Pop
    2009
    Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographs Valletta for Iceberg
    MAR 2009
    Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Klein
    APR 2009
    Appears in Italian Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Klein
    MAY 2009
    Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
    JUL 2009
    Launches clothing line with L.A. clothing company Monrow Story»
    SEP 2009
    V magazine features Valletta as an up-and-coming actress
    FEB 2010
    Appears in Marie Claire editorial, photographed by Simon Burstall
    2010
    Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott photographs Valletta for the spring cover of LOVE
    APR 2010
    Featured on the cover of Italian Vogue, photographed by Steven Meisel
    MAY 2010
    Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Meisel
    2010
    Replaces Angela Lindvall as the face of Jimmy Choo
    DEC 2010
    Appears in Vogue editorial, styled in Tom Ford
    MAR 2011
    Appears in editorials for Vogue, Italian Vogue and W
    2011
    Featured on the summer cover of i-D, photographed by Craig McDean
    JAN 2012
    Appears in Vogue editorial, photographed by Steven Klein
    MAR 2012
    Appears in Love magazine editorial, photographed by Willy Vanderperre
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