After more than two years since I posted this picture of this Revlon Colorfast eye-shadow model from 1978 on this blog (in March 2017), asking for her identity, I finally have a positive ID: Her name is Lisa Crosby.
And as fate would have it, Lisa Crosby is one of the models I'm connected to on Facebook. When an anonymous follower (irony!) of this blog identified her, I checked with Lisa Crosby herself to verify if it was indeed her. She did. So, it's official!
But what of Lisa Crosby the model, Lisa Crosby, the woman? Well, she grew up in Florida and studied ballet at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. After graduating from there, she moved to New York City and was accepted by the Ford modeling agency.
She eventually made her way to Europe, where she was represented by the Inge Schuckmann Talents agency in Munich and Paris Planning in Paris. She lived in Paris for awhile, becoming the spokesmodel for Chanel for France and also doing ads there for Guerlain, from which the above photo is taken.
In New York City and Los Angeles, Ms. Crosby was represented by various branches of the Elite agency, as well as by Ellen Harth agency in New York City. She appeared in numerous TV commercials and also appeared in a few movies as well. Although she left modeling to become a professional photographer, she soon found her way back in front of the camera; she's now part of Iconic Focus, the agency known for representing veteran models.
Her once-dark hair has gone silver, but I happen to think it makes her look more beautiful.
Lisa Crosby still takes ballet classes and spends the summertime with her husband (yeah, sorry, guys, she's married!) at their ranch in Montana, where she photographs wildlife. She goes by a very simple and very direct credo: "Be bright, be brief, be gone – and be as beautiful as you can be."
Thanks to the anonymous reader who identified her in the 1978 photo. :-)
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