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Wilhelmina Cooper was a Dutch-American model and the founder of Wilhelmina Models. She appeared on the covers of 27 or 28 American Vogue magazines and was portrayed by Faye Dunaway in Gia.
Wilhelmina Cooper, née le 1 er mai 1939 à Culemborg, aux Pays-Bas, et morte le 1 er mars 1980 à Greenwich, Connecticut, est un mannequin. Elle commence sa carrière à l'agence Ford et en fonde sa propre agence, en 1967 à New York, Wilhelmina Models.
Wilhelmina Cooper was a supermodel and businesswoman who founded Wilhelmina Models Inc. in 1967. She appeared on the covers of Vogue and other magazines 28 times and was one of the few women to appear on Fortune alone.
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11 oct. 2015 · Wilhelmina Cooper was a Dutch model who appeared on 255 magazine covers and founded Wilhelmina Models in 1967. She was portrayed by Faye Dunaway in the movie Gia and inspired the character Wilhelmina Slater in Ugly Betty.
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She’s born Gertrude Behmenburg in 1939 in Holland but she grows up in Germany. Come the end of the war, she’s six years old. She sets out with her little brother to get the day’s food ration for the family. Skipping down the street they encounter a group of Canadian soldiers. It’s VE Day, they’re celebrating and they’ve had way too much booze. Thei...
At 37-24-36 and 159 pounds, she is some way away from the waif-like figure expected of a model. This is brought home to her in no uncertain terms by Patricia Stevens (who will rechristen ‘Winnie’ as ‘Wilhelmina’), a booker at another agency who approaches her at the 1959 International Trade Show in Chicago. She takes ‘Winnie’ downstairs to a coffee...
Following a year in Paris and with a L’Officiel cover to her credit, Wilhelmina returns to the US and takes New York by storm. She is booked weeks, even months in advance. In 1964, in a series called Private Lives of High Fashion Models, the New York Journal American reports that Wilhelmina has ‘risen to the top of the heap of the 405 girls who wor...
In her first years in New York Wilhelmina dates many men. Of the city’s playboys, she says: In 1964, she meets Bruce Cooper, an associate producer of The Tonight Show, and in February 1965 they get married. When Eileen Ford pushes work towards the next generation of models and Wilhelmina’s bookings start to dry up, the couple respond by setting up ...
The best source of I’ve come across is Michael Gross’s book, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. To see more pictures, take a look at Wilhelmina on Facebook and at Wilhelmina Cooper, from Model to Model Agencie.
Wilhelmina was one of the biggest models of the early 1960s, appearing on 255 magazine covers and earning $100,000 a year. She also faced discrimination, diets, and a tragic end to her life.
Wilhelmina Models is a public modeling and talent agency founded in 1967 by Wilhelmina Cooper. It represents models, celebrities, artists, musicians, and athletes worldwide, including Nicki Minaj, Niall Horan, Normani, and Billie Eilish.
Since its founding in 1967 by Dutch supermodel Wilhelmina Cooper, Wilhelmina Models has earned its prestigious standing as an industry leader by providing full-spectrum model management for women, men and fitness models, as well as entertainers and musicians.
