The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten Marianela Nuñez, Royal Ballet, London, UK

The Royal Ballet of London looks for dancers in the farthest corners of the earth.  In Marianela Nuñez, they found one in just such a corner. 😊  

Marianela Nuñez came from distant Argentina to join the Royal Ballet's Upper School in 1997 at the age of fifteen, eventually becoming a principal dancer in five short years.  Among her roles with the Royal Ballet are Swanhilda in Coppélia, the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, Lise in La fille mal gardée, Mitzi Caspar in Mayerling, Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country, and many, many more.

Fun fact: Ms. Nuñez has lived in Britain for so long, she's since become a British citizen. 

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Nayara Lopes, Philadelphia Ballet, Philadelphia, PA

Nayara Lopes comes to Philadelphia by way of Brazil.

 

An alumna of the School of Theatre Dance Guaira in her home country of Brazil, she came to America and trained at the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York.   She joined the Philadelphia Ballet for our 2016-17 season as a member of the corps de ballet, was promoted to soloist for the 2018-19 season, and was then promoted to first soloist for the 2019-20 season. It was in December 2021, at the near end of the pandemic - following a matinee performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker - that Ms. Lopes was promoted to principal dancer.

Among the roles she has performed since becoming a principal dancer in the Philadelphia Ballet are the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the title role in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella.

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Alexandra Huffman, Portland Ballet, Portland, ME

If you were expecting a new post in my latest series of beautiful dancers on this Friday the 13th, you're lucky! 😀

Alexandra Huffman is a company dancer with the Portland Ballet in Maine.  Her dance education includes training at the Carmel Academy of Performing Arts and the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. 

As a dancer with the Portland Ballet, Ms. Huffman has a long career ahead of her.

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Olga Esina, Vienna State Ballet

Olga Esina is originally from Russia, but she's best known as a dancer in Austria.

Born and raised in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). she studied at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in her hometown and was a member of the Mariinsky Theatre Ballet.  In 2006 - at the age of twenty - Ms. Esina she joined the Vienna State Ballet ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper as a soloist and was promoted to first soloist four years later.

Her repertoire in Vienna includes roles, such as Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Princess Aurora in Peter Wright's version of The Sleeping Beauty," the  title role in ballets such as in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, and Anna Karenina," Bella in Roland Petit's Die Fledermaus, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, among many, many others.

Ms. Esina has also performed in France, Argentina,  Germany,  Spain, and the United States as well.  You might see her this coming January 1, when PBS airs the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Year's concert, along with performances from - you guessed it - the Vienna State Ballet.

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Aurélie Dupont, Paris Opera Ballet

Aurélie Dupont is a legend in French ballet.

She joined the Paris Opera Ballet at the age of sixteen in 1989 and and became a première danseuse i the company seven years later.  In 1998, after she danced the role of Kitri in the Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's production of Don Quixote, she was promoted to star dancer.

Mme. Dupont would go on to dance leading roles in La Bayadère, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, and The Four Temperaments, among others, as well as the Paris Opera Ballet's revival of Nureyev's version of The Sleeping Beauty. 

Mme. Dupont formally retired from the Paris Opera stage following a performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon in May 2015, but in 2016 she became the director of dance for the Paris Opera Ballet, a position she would hold for six years.

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Rania Charalambidou, Montgomery Ballet, Montgomery, AL

From Montgomery, by way of Nicosia.

 

Originally from Nicosia, Cyprus, Rania Charalambidou has found a sweet home in Alabama with the Montgomery Ballet.  Ms. Charalambidou is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in New York City with a bachelor of arts degree in dance education.

Having danced with numerous companies across the United States, Rania Charalambidou now dances with the Montgomery Ballet as a principal.  Among the roles she's danced, both as a principal and a soloist, are Princess Vasilissa in Firebird, the Summer Fairy in Cinderella, and the title role in Scheherazade.

Ms. Charalambidou is also co-founder of 35°33° Dance Company back home in Cyprus.  The company takes its name from the island's latitude and longitude, respectively.

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Eva Burton, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland, OR

A member of the Oregon Ballet Theater company since 20210, Eva Burton became a principal dancer for OBT in 2020.

The Los Angeles-born Ms. Burton has a repertoire that includes ballets choreographed by George Balanchine, Helen Pickett, August Bournonville, and Jiří Kylián, among others.  Ms. Burton has performed the title role in Cinderella and made her OBT principal debut as Princess Aurora in Christopher Stowell’s production of The Sleeping Beauty. 

The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten: Coco Alvarez-Mena, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago. IL

Many people in Chicago eventually move to Miami. Coco Alvarez-Mena did the opposite.

Coco Alvarez-Mena is a first-generation Cuban-American who studied dance in her hometown and later at the University of Southern California's Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, being part of the inaugural graduating class.in 2019.

Ms. Alvarez-Mena joined the corps de ballet of the Oregon Ballet Theatre after USC, spending three seasons with the company. Her repertoire includes William Forsythe's In the Middle Somewhat Elevated and Trey McIntyre's In Dreams.

Ms. Alvarez-Mena has been with the Joffrey company since 2022.

New Series: The Beauty of Dance, Part Ten!

Once again, as I do at the end of every even-numbered year, I look at beautiful women in dance - ballet, modern, whatever.  And, as always, when it comes to looking for beautiful dancers, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. 😁

Dance itself is one of the loveliest forms of high art, as many people come to realize at this time of year when they go to see The Nutcracker.  And we need some high-art diversion at this time of year . . . especially this year, in light of last moth's election results. 😟 

Oh yeah, about that . . . even though I have tried to keep politics out of this blog since I stopped featuring female politicians here, I have to address a female news anchor I featured her way back in 2008 . . . I featured Mika Brzezinski, who had just joined MSNBC and become Joe Scarborough's morning-news cohost, and later his wife.  After she and Scarborough visited the President-elect - the man I prefer to call Dr. Sinister - at his castle in Florida, I should remove that post.  But, because it's from 2008, I won't.  I do want to stress, though, that I am pleased with what she did and I am not happy about the fact that I got her wrong.  Given the decline and possible fall of the mainstream media in this 203rd decade of Christendom, I am seriously beginning to question whether I should include women in the news media on this blog going forward.

But enough of that for now.   I'll back tomorrow with my first post of this new dance series.  First, though, I have to acknowledge the passing of dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison, who died last month at 81 and whom I featured in an earlier Beauty of Dance series.  RIP.     

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Trifecta!

Behold, three of the most beautiful women of the modeling profession in the 1980s.

 

Together here, in this moody (and lovely) picture are, from left, Wanakee Pugh, Eva Voorhees and Beverly Lee.

I found this picture in social media just as I was finalizing my choices for this retrospective month.

I last featured Wanakee Pugh in August 2023;  Eva Voorhees in June 2020; and, Beverly Lee twice earlier this year. 

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Roshumba Williams

While Roshumba Williams has never tried to put her reputation as a model behind her, she has gone on to a lucrative media career as an on-camera host for numerous cable TV shows about style and design and as a red-carpet interviewer.  And she still models from time to time. 

In fact, this picture of her posing in a strapless outfit - which I knew I had to save once I saw it - is from a recent photo session.  😍

I last featured Roshumba Williams in February 2023.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Margrit Ramme

Margrit Ramme was never a household name; she began her modeling career before 1980, and the sixties and seventies were a time when very few models were known by name.  That hasn't stopped me from finding numerous examples of her portfolio. 

And so once again here are two pictures of Margrit Ramme, whom I last featured here twice before this year.  The color photo below is from a 1969 Helena Rubenstein makeup ad.

The black-white photo above is a headshot from, it appears, the early seventies.  I think it was Peter beard who took this picture.

I'm sure I'll be featuring Margrit Ramme again in 2025. 😊 

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Rosemary McGrotha

Rosemary McGrotha was one of my major model crushes back in the eighties, and she remains one of my favorite cover girls.  Here she is again in a headshot from December 1986. 

I think this picture is from an issue of New Woman magazine.

I last featured Rosemary McGrotha here in April 2023.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Beverly Johnson

Extraordinary, ethereal, eternal (pardon the alliteration) beauty.  Beverly Johnson is just that.

And she knows how to display her beauty, as these various photos show. Never the same hairstyle twice, no diminishing of her loveliness.

 And did you notice what these three pictures have in common?

In each one, she's sporting outfits that emphasize her broad, beautiful shoulders! 💕

This blogger got to see Beverly Johnson in person in February 2024, when she did her one-woman show about her life and career.  Sadly, I didn't get to meet her afterwards.

I last featured Beverly Johnson in August 2023.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Maria Hanson

Maria Hanson is best known for her Maidenform undergarment ads, of course, but she's just as attractive when she's fully clothed. 😊 

 

And, unlike the picture of Dawn Gallagher that I just featured, I know that this picture is from a JC Penney catalog - from a 1981 catalog, to be more precise.

I last featured Maria Hanson on this blog in August 2023. 

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Dawn Gallagher

I've gotten to know Dawn Gallagher as a result of 1980s models discovering me and my blog.  Her career goes all the way back to the early part of that decade, and this picture is one of the earliest examples from her portfolio.

As I recall, this is from a JC Penney catalog.

I last featured Dawn Gallagher on this blog in January 2017.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Juli Foster

One of these days I'm going to find a picture of Juli Foster smiling.

I'm sorry . . . 

. . . this isn't the day. 😄

The black-and-white picture of Juli Foster is from March 1980, while the color photo is undated.

I last featured Juli Foster in July 2023.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Claudia Cron

Claudia Cron is a model I've had the wonderful pleasure of meeting in person, at an art show at which she was one of the artists - she's a print artist these days. 😊

This picture of Claudia Cron is from 1978.  I last featured her here in July 2023.

The Beauty of Retrospect, November Model Edition: Alda Balestra

Alda Balestra began the seventies as a bubbly teenage beauty contest winner.  She ended that decade as one of the sexiest models in Italy.

As the 1979 photo above so clearly demonstrates.  😍

She also demonstrated in the late seventies with equal clarity that she could convey elegance with a little playfulness added in, as the 1978 photo for Christian Dior below shows.

I last featured Alda Balestra in December 2021.

The Beauty of Retrospect: November Model Edition!

Another special series.  Come December, I will feature beautiful dancers, as I do every other December, but for this month, I will look back on models I have featured before on this blog.

Back tomorrow with my first post.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: the Walsh Sisters

A two-fer!

 

 

Alex and Gretchen Walsh are sisters from Nashville who are both competitive swimmers.  Alex, above, has competed in numerous races employing different swim strokes, having taken silver medals in medleys at the 2022 World Championships in Melbourne and won three golds at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru - in the 200-meter backstroke, the 200-meter medley, and the 4×200-meter freestyle relay.  Her sole Olympic medal is a 200-meter medley silver from Tokyo.

Her younger sister Gretchen (below) is just as tough a competitor in the pool. 

Gretchen Walsh holds the world record holder in the 100-meter butterfly, 4×100 medley relay, and mixed gender 4×100 medley relay. She won the silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and there she managed to set the Olympic record in the 100-meter butterfly in the semifinals with a time of 55.38.   And if that weren't enough, she won six gold medals at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest - thw 4×100-meter mixed medley, the 100-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter mixed freestyle, the 4×100-meter freestyle, the "splash and dash" 50-meter freestyle, and the 4×100-meter medley.

That's it for this series of beautiful athletes.  Back soon.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Katie Moon

Katie Moon doesn't cross the line. She leaps over it.

The Ohio-born-and-raised Ms. Moon is a champion pole vaulter who has won Olympic gold in Tokyo and Olympic silver in Paris.  She also won back-to-back World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in 2022 and Budapest in 2023.

And she's obviously very happy about her success.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Kylee McKeown

Kylee McKeown is an Australian swimmer who has won five Olympic gold medals and a lot of medals in between.

She won back-to-back gold medals in both the 100m and 200m backstroke in the 2020 (no, 2021) Tokyo Olympics and the 21024 Paris Olympics, along with a fifth gold medal in the 4x100m medley in Tokyo.  

Among Ms. McKeown's other medals were golds in the 100m and 200m backstroke at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Jasmine Jones

 Jasmine Jones is a track star whose specialty is the hurdles.

Ms. Jones, who turns 23 at the end of November, hasn't competed a great deal on the international level, but the University of Southern California hurdler got off to a good start at the 2024 Paris Olympics.  SHe came in fourth there in 400m hurdles with a time of 52.29 seconds - both a personal best and an American collegiate record.  She also won a gold medal in the 100m hurdles at the 2019 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships in San José, Costa Rica.

Fun fact: Jasmine Jones is the daughter of Henry Jones, a star football player for the Buffalo Bills.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Jessica Hull

Australian runner Jessica Hull is an up-ands-coming star in track and field.

 

Ms. Hull, who turns 28 this month, first earned notoriety in the 2023 World Cross Country Championships in her home country (in Bathurst, New South Wales)  by winning a bronze medal in the mixed-relay race.  She went on to win silver in the 1500m race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Keely Hodgkinson

Keely Hodgkinson is a middle-distance track runner from Britain.

Her specialty is the 800-meter race, and she's won several gold medals in that event, both in the Olympics and in the European Championships. In addition to winning the 800-meter race at the European Championships in Munich in 2022 and in 2024 in Rome, Ms. Hodgkinson won that race at the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Becky Downie

British gymnasts don't fare too much in Olympic competition against the Americans, the Romanians, the Chinese, and the Russians.  That means most gymnastic fans outside Britain know about Becky Downie. 

 

She has won the gold medal in the uneven-bars competition at the European Championships, first in Sofia in 2014 and then in Bern in 2016. She also won the gold medal in the uneven bars and the team gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. 

Although Ms. Downie has never been an Olympic champion, she has been given a medal considered more prestigious in the U.K. - a medal as a Member of the Order of the British Empire, the same award the Beatles got in 1965.  And even thought the British Empire today is currently down to Bermuda, a few islands in the Caribbean, and the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic,  it's still a big deal.

Fun fact:  Ms. Downie's sister Ellie is also a gymnast and has also been given an MBE medal.

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Rushell Clayton

Rushell Clayton is a Jamaican track star who specializes in the hurdles.

Her best race is the 400-meter hurdles.  She won the bronze medal in that event in the World Championships twice - in 2019 in Doha and in 2023 in Budapest - as well as at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.  Ms. Clayton has also competed in the Olympics.  

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

As Puerto Rico belongs to the United States but is not part of it because it hasn't yet been admitted to the Union (our country is called the United States of America, not the United States and Territories of America), the island territory sends its own team to the Olympics. And one of its recent stars is track star Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.

 

Ms. Camacho-Quinn, who was born in South Carolina to a black father and a Puerto Rican mother, specializes in the hurdles and competed for the University of Kentucky.   She became the first Puerto Rican athlete of African heritage to win a gold medal in the Olympics, in the 100-meter hurdles at he Tokyo Olympics in 2020 (no, 2021).  She won the bronze in the same event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Simone Biles

Why is Simone Biles considered the greatest female gymnast of all time?

Maybe it's because she won 23 gold medals in the World Gymnastics Championships, six of them all-around medals and five of them team medals, the other twelve on various apparati, and because she won seven Olympic gold medals, two of them all-around and two of them team, with three apparatus medals.

Yeah, that must be it.

And she won three of those gold medals in Paris at the age of 27.  It is now truly "women's" gymnastics.

Oh yes, she's also married.  Football player Jonathan Owens of the Chicago Bears is the lucky guy. 

The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven: Julien Alfred

Saint Lucia is an island country in the Windward Islands that is a realm of the British Commonwealth.  It's smaller than the land area of the five boroughs of New York City,  and its population is slightly larger than that of Fargo, North Dakota.  So, in such a small country, it's little wonder that sprinter Julien Alfred looms large. 

Julien Alfred became the first Saint Lucian athlete in history to win an Olympic gold medal, winning it at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 100-meter dash event, It was the first Olympic medal for Saint Lucia. Ms. Alfred then won a silver medal in the 200-meter race. 

 

To say that Ms. Alfred is a national heroine in Saint Lucia is like saying that Christmas is just another day on the calendar. 😊

New Series: The Beauty of Sport, Part Seven!

I don't normally start a new year on this blog with a special series, but as there were so many wonderful female athletes at the Paris Olympics this year, it made sense to start another series of beautiful athletes right now.  The first post in the series appears tomorrow. 😊

The Beauty of Retrospect: Catherine Roberts

These two pictures of Catherine Roberts, whom I last featured here in Marchj 2024, are from the more recent photos in her portfolio.

Bear in mind that Catherine Roberts has been modeling since the early seventies, so the fact that she is still going strong as a model says a lot about her enduring, classic beauty.

That's it for retrospectives . . . for now.  A new round of new photos is coming soon to kick off this blog's nineteenth year.

The Beauty of Retrospect: Lisa Moberg and Margrit Ramme

Lisa Moberg (now MacKenzie) and Margrit Ramme are two of the hottest models ever to come from northern Europe (Lisa is from Sweden, Margrit is from Germany).  Imagine if they worked together.

Well, they did.

Yes, they they are in a very steamy lingerie ad - or maybe that steam is actually dry ice.😄 That's Lisa on the left, Margrit on the right.

Here they are in opposite poses, in which they've slipped into something more presentable. 

 

Gorgeous.  But then, you already knew that.

I last featured Lisa in February 2021, and I last featured Margrit in March 2024. 😊 

The Beauty of Retrospect: Beverly Lee

After featuring two pictures of Beverly Lee  in March 2024, I am featuring four pictures of her here today.  😀

Above is Beverly sporting a casual look.  Below, she turns on the full glamour in an elegant Adolfo number in a fashion show. 

 

And you thought she just modeled for catalogs and advertisements! 😀

Below, Beverly goes on location, apparently to a charming small town with historic buildings that house boutiques, and poses in this photo by Tony Palmieri.

Finally, I have this photo of her modeling a Givenchy outfit. I'm going to guess from the staircase railing that this was taken in Givenchy's hometown of Paris. 😁

Beverly Lee looks great in any pose, under any circumstances.

Beautiful Women: Eighteen Years

This time last year, I said I was unlikely to come up with a hundred new subjects for the eighteenth year of this blog, but guess what - I managed to come up with a hundred subjects after all.  Go figure.

I'm not going to make any promises for how many subjects I will or will not have going into my nineteenth year here, but I just might make it to that magic number of 100.  For now, though, here's a list of the women I've featured in the past year, and the same standards apply; I identify their vocations, and where I don't know their nationalities, I leave that blank.  A new round of A-Z subjects for the next year of this blog begins in October.  I plan to close out September with retrospective posts.

Jade Anderson, American actress   

Margareta Arvidsson, Swedish model  

Carol Asmann, fashion model  

Marianne Assouline, French actress  

Paula Atherton, American jazz saxophonist and vocalist  

Shirley Bassey, British singer  

Shari Belafonte, American actress  

Sophie Bell, American actress  

Cheryl Bentyne, American jazz singer  

Suanne Braun, South African stage actress

Deborah Brener, fashion model  

Andrianna Brown, American media personality  

Dasha Burns, American broadcast journalist  

Ana Cabrera, American broadcast journalist 

J.C. Cadena, American actress  

Erin Cahill, American actress  

Debra Chevalier, fashion model  

Melanie Collins, American sportscaster  

Alanna Dachille, American actress  

AprilAnn Dais, American actress  

Emily DiDonato, American fashion model  

Carol Duboc, American jazz and R&B singer  

Anny Duperey, French actress  

Lauren Egan, American journalist  

Martina Einstmann, fashion model  

Karlee Eldridge, American actress  

Denise Faye, American choreographer and dancer  

Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish-British actress  

Cathy Gallagher, fashion model  

Anna Getaneh, Ethiopian fashion model 

Lily Gladstone, American actress 

Debra Halley, fashion model  

Celia Hammond, British fashion model  

Inger Heindl, fashion model  

Nicole Henry, America jazz and soul singer 

Helen Hogberg, Swedish fashion model 

Autumn Hurlbert, American stage actress  

Melanie Jarnson, Australian actress  

Sharon Jordan, American actress  

Bianca Kajlich, American actress  

Minka Kelly, American actress  

Yunjin Kim, American/Korean actress  

Dani Kind, Canadian actress  

J.J. Kinnersley, American model and actress  

Petra Kvapilova, Czech model 

Nancy Lemenager, American stage actress  

Laura Lenee, model and actress  

Kathy Loghry, American fashion model  

Lauren London, American actress  

Otmara Marrero, American actress  

Jes Macallan, American actress  

Keiko Matsui, Japanese jazz pianist  

Maura McGaghey, fashion model 

Jane McNeill, American actress  

Sophie Milman, Canadian (Russian-born) jazz singer 

Dani Minnick, American actress, model and film director 

Jessie Mueller, American actress and singer  

Karen Mulder, Dutch model  

Lara Naszinsky, European model and actress  

Diane Neal, American actress  

Chris O'Connor, fashion model  

Karla Otis, runway fashion model  

Mary Padian, American television personality 

Brandi Passante, American television personality  

Jane Perry, British-Canadian actress  

Kelley Poling, American actress and model  

Megyn Price, American actress  

Anges Pure, Latvian (U.K.-based) stage actress  

Allie Raffa, American TV news reporter  

Jana Rajlich, American model  

Tracy Reed, American actress  

Desiree Ross, American actress  

Hayley Seat, American actress 

Raushanah Simmons, American actress  

Jaclyn Smith, American actress 

Susan Smith, beauty model 

Yvonne Sporre, fashion model  

Sheila Stainback, American news anchorwoman, actress, and voice-over artist  

Christiana Steidten, fashion model

Michelle Stevens, American fashion model  

Jasmine Styles, American broadcast journalist  

Micaela Sundholm, Swedish fashion model  

Sydney Sweeney,  American actress  

Aimee Teegarden, American actress  

Linda Thompson, British folk-rock singer  

Madison Thompson, American actress

Tamara Tunie, American actress  

unidentified Land's End model

unidentified Olay model  

unidentified Sears catalog model 

Cecilia Vega, American broadcast journalist 

Lauren Vélez, American actress  

Jessalyn Wanlim, Canadian actress  

Lindsey Webster, American jazz singer  

Valerie Weitz, American fashion and beauty model 

Karen Williams, Canadian fashion model

Traci Wolfe, American actress  

Janice Wu, Chinese actress  

ZaoZao Yu, Chinese (U.S.-based) actress  

Danielle Zinaich, American fashion model  

The Beauty of Anonymity: Land's End model

This lovely young woman appears in the Fall 2024 Land's End catalog.

She's sporting a trench jacket for the brand.

As she's a current catalog model, I don't know her name.  If anyone can identify her, please comment below.

Actress ZaoZao Yu

 ZaoZao Yu is another actress from China.

She came to America, where she's done some artistic-video work, mainly for the sort of videos that appear on YouTube.  Biographical data on her isscant, but she seems to be pretty determined to make in the U.S.  And she seems to be pretty . . . pretty. 😊

Actress Janice Wu

You've likely never heard of Janice Wu. Unless, of course, you've seen Chinese cinema.

 

Janice Wu, also known by her Chinese name, Wu Qian, is an actress known for her roles in Chinese movies such as the romance film Love O2O and the drama Lighting Up the Stars.

She's better known in China for her television roles in various series, among them "A Life Time Love" and "The Brightest Star In the Sky."