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5 unusual facts about Eileen Ford


Barbara Minty

Barbara was signed with power modeling agents Eileen Ford and Nina Blanchard and became an in demand model, gracing the covers of dozens of magazines as well as advertisement in the 1970s.

Catherine de Castelbajac

Eileen Ford then sent her to Paris, where, in October 1976, she met fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac.

Colleen Corby

Two weeks after walking into Eileen Ford's modeling agency (ostensibly to look for a summer job).

Nena von Schlebrügge

She found immediate success and was invited to New York City by Eileen Ford of the Ford Modeling Agency to continue her modelling career.

Veronica Hamel

She began a fashion modeling career after being discovered by Eileen Ford.



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