Veruschka

He studied art in Hamburg and then moved to Florence, where he was discovered at age 20 by the photographer Ugo Mulas and became a full-time model. Then the models are not considered desirable height in Paris, but there she met Eileen Ford, head of the prestigious Ford Modeling agency. In 1961, he moved to New York City, but she did not score reservations. To highlight, he returned to Munich and told people that she was really with Russia and changed his name to create a mysterious character, which won her many reservations. He has also received attention when she made a brief but powerful five minute appearance in the 1966 cult film by Michelangelo Antonioni Blowup (Premiere named the sexiest scene of the scene in movie history, even though there is no nudity ).
In the same year, he made his first shot using nothing but body paint, she will continue to do so for years. She worked with Salvador Dali and photographer Peter Beard, who took her to Kenya, where she painted with black shoe polish surreal resemble plants and animals in an attempt to "go native". In its heyday, she earned more than $ 10,000 per day. In 1975, however, departed from the fashion industry because of disagreements with Grace Mirabella, the newly appointed editor in chief of Vogue, who wanted to change their image to make it more relatable and accessible to average women. In 1985, she entered the world of art, putting in a body painting show in Tribeca; on his naked body was painted with different sets of its transformation into wild animals and various archetypes, like movie stars, dandies, gangsters and dirty Elders. Occasionally, it still appears in walkways, for example as a model for customers in the Melbourne Fashion Festival in 2000 in Australia.