If the designer Auggie Cordero hadn't been scouting a beauty contest, Anna Bayle might have become a doctor.
Anna Bayle is originally from the Philippines, where she began pre-med studies at the country's national university. She entered a beauty pageant on campus, where Auggie Cordero discovered her talent to stun and amaze the spectators, and he became her mentor. Through him, Ms. Bayle worked her way through the modeling circuit by starting out in Hong Kong (this was when it was still a British colony) before moving on to Paris as a prerequisite for the biggest city in the fashion world - New York. She made it to the Big Apple, and even though she reitred from modeling in 1994, she still lives there today. The above photo is from a New York Times editorial.
Among the designers she worked with are Thierry Mugler, Chanel, Valentino, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, and Renato Balestra, who designed the lovely green dress in the above picture.
And Christian Lacroix, as seen below.
To think it's been twenty-five years as of this writing since she last appeared on a runway. If there's a woman who's walked down the catwalk with the same grace, beauty, and sex appeal as Anna Bayle, I must have missed her.
By the way, as she is Philippine, her name is pronounced "BY-lay," not "bale."
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