Ivanka Trump.(fashion models)(Brief biography)

Byline: Hamish Bowles

Ivanka Trump has been aware of fashion "I think my whole life," she says. "I was born in 1981, when, for better or worse, people were definitely conscious of it. Then it was a very done look. I personally am more of a minimalist, but it's so much fun to go to the couture shows. The energy and theatricality!" She saw her first at the age of seven. It was her Paris debut, and she was staying at the Ritz with her mother. "The airline lost our luggage from Nice," Ivanka remembers, so her mother dressed her in the vividly printed Versace silk shirt Ivana had been wearing, tying it in a knot at the waist. "I ran into Gianni Versace in the hotel lobby," says Ivanka. "He was intrigued at how we had manipulated his fashion."

Ivanka, who was dancing in The Nutcracker at Lincoln Center in 1992, around the time when Vogue made her mother a glowing, couture-clad cover star, has inherited Ivana's sense of invention and fearlessness with ...