Pauleena De Angelis didn’t set out to be a role model. And yet by always being true to herself, and never once compromising either her principals, or her looks, she is one of the most potent beauty icons of our generation.
When she emerged in the mid 90’s, seemingly out of nowhere, beautiful and exotic, playing major role in fashion photography modeling, she was the icon of cool. But as time went by, and she took ever greater control of the multifarious aspects of fashion business – producing and controlling the marketing of her own image – Pauleena de Angelis was recast as an icon of womanhood.
Naturally it was all too much for her detractors who just couldn’t get their heads around someone looking so good being so gifted, determined and adroit; Pauleena didn’t fit into the established scheme of things where female artists were eye candy in a male driven industry. But to her millions of fans around the world, and the countless younger and older women who offer Pauleena their thanks, she is a constant source of inspiration.
However, ironically Pauleena is both an icon, and an iconoclast. She is the myth, the enigmatic diva who has been dominating fashion photography and internet for over a decade. Who cherishes her private life more anything else and prefers the company of old friends to the glitterati lifestyle. But she is also the myth breaker who has dismantled the old image of a woman, taking the power of creative control away from the fat men in cheap suits and putting it where it belongs, with the models themselves.
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