Black Models Making Waves In The Fashion Industry

Alessandra Ambrosio for Ale by Alessandra Swimwear

Ále’s Swimsuit Looks–After debuting her clothing line for Ále by Alessandra Ambrosio earlier this year, Victoria’s Secret Model Alessandra Ambrosio takes another step as a designer with her swimwear line. One of the world’s hottest bikini models shows off her stuff in the sizzling hot images. Posing at the beach, the dark-haired beauty reveals her svelte physique in the skin-baring styles.

Candice Swanepoel for Victoria's Secret October 2014

Gorgeous. What can I say. Candice Swanepoel for Victoria's Secret October 2014 looks amazing as usual. Victoria's Secret have the most exquisite, sexy and glamorous lingerie in the fashion world. A staple must have even if you have to break your bank savings to own one. Every woman deserves to feel sexy and equally a goddess and owning one Victoria's Secret Lingerie would do just that!

Ajak Deng

Name: Ajak Deng

Nationality: Australia

Mother Agency: FRM Model Management , Victoria Australia

In March 2010 walked for Lanvin, Givenchy, Chloe, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier.

Angelique “Ajak” Deng, was one of the breakout stars of the SS10 Paris shows, booking Chloe, Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Lanvin. An array of editorials has followed — most notably, Interview with Mikael Jansson and V with Amy Troost. Look out for Ajak in the upcoming Fall 2010 Topshop campaign shot by Josh Olins. Born in the Sudan, Ajak now calls Melbourne, Australia home.

Candice Swanepoel for Colcci Jeans 2012 Ad Campaign

Model Candice Swanepoel bathes in gold glitter as she poses topless, with a strategically placed arm, for Brazilian label Colcci.

Adriana Lima for Victoria's Secret Swimwear April 2012

Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the tender age of 13, Adriana entered the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, where her unique beauty, derived from her Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, and Caribbean heritage, won her second place. Moving to New York at age 16, Adriana joined the Elite Model Management and further pursued her modeling career, landing a campaign for the fashion designer Anna Molinari's clothing line. However, it was her appearance in several Guess? campaigns that gained her the recognition that catapulted her to her status as one of the world's top fashion models. Since then, she has appeared in campaigns for Anna Sui Jeans, Bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, Victoria's Secret, BCBG, Keds, and XOXO, and has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She consistently appears in the hyped Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, gaining recognition as one of the Victoria's Secret's Perfect 10. In her spare time, Adriana dedicates her services to help orphans in her native Brazil. She has appeared in the Italian TIM mobile Commercials.

Gaunt model shocks at Milan Fashion Show

Hollow-eyed and gaunt, the skeletal model stalked down the runway at the Gianfranco Ferré fashion show in Milan last night wearing a dress cut in a deep V that revealed her protruding clavicle and flat chest. A flurry of flashbulbs popped as photographers vied to get the best shot and the line of fashion editors sitting front row scribbled furiously on their notepads. If ever there were a case of Emperor's New Clothes at fashion week, it was here.

Did any one of the assembled crowd really think this model - bony cleavage, dark circled eyes - looked good Could they genuinely say that this image was aspirational And ultimately, would the model do what must be her main purpose here: sell these clothes to other women The answer to all of the above should surely be a firm no. But the designers' decision to use such dramatically thin models - and to accentuate their emaciated looks with the use of revealing clothing and dark make-up - suggests the powers that be within the fashion industry think otherwise.

Black Women Models in Fashion

• Tyra Banks - first African-American to grace the covers of GQ, Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, and the Victoria's Secret catalog. Also the host of ANTM