Gisele Bundchen

After winning the prestigious VH1/Vogue Model of the Year award in 1999, she went on to co-host the ceremony in 2000, along with actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.. Vogue named her the "model of the millennium" and has referred to her as the "return of the sexy model".[citation needed] In 2000 she was the fourth model in history to grace the cover of Rolling Stone, when she was named "the most beautiful girl in the world".

Since her debut, she has been the face of a variety of advertising campaigns including several seasons of Christian Dior, Balenciaga, Dolce & Gabbana, Missoni, Versace, Céline, Givenchy, Bvlgari, Lanvin, Guerlain, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Earl Jean, Zara, Chloé, Michael Kors, and Louis Vuitton. Bündchen is also the face of several Brazilian brands like Vivo, Brazil's leading mobile company, Multiplan, Colcci and Credicard. After Brazilian clothier C&A; hired her and started their television commercials, C&A; sales had an increase of 30%.



In May of 2006, Bündchen signed another multi-million dollar deal, this time with American giant Apple Computer. She starred in an advertising campaign to promote the new Macintosh line through the Get a Mac advertisements.

She has her own line of sandals with shoes company Grendene, called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen, which have sold more than 100 million pairs since 2001.  She is also the owner of a hotel in the south of Brazil, the Palladium Executive.

Bündchen consistently works with photographers, like Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mert and Marcus, Rankin, Annie Leibovitz, Karl Lagerfeld, Peter Lindbergh, Mario Sorrenti and Patrick Demarchelier, among others.

Bündchen has also been on the covers of thousands of magazines from all over the globe like Vogue (American, Italian, British, French, Brazilian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese and Spanish), W, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, Allure, i-D, The Face, Arena (magazine), Citizen K, Flair, Time, Vanity Fair, Forbes, Newsweek, Esquire, Veja, GQ and Marie Claire. Gisele has also walked the Victoria's Secret runway, along with Heidi Klum, Tyra Banks, Adriana Lima, and countless other beautiful "angels". She was also seen in Victoria's Secret commercials and ad campaigns, and Victoria's Secret Magazine.
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