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Beauty By Numbers
Models
1852: Year Maria Vernet Worth, a Parisian shopgirl, became the first fashion model by acting like a mannequin to help out her dress-salesman husband. 17: Waist measurement of the first famous model, Lisa Fonssagrives, who appeared on the cover of Vogue
more than 200 times from the 1930s to the 1950s. 1943: Year fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert organized New York City's first Fashion
Week (then called Press Week), when
the Nazi occupation of France
made it impossible for buyers and editors to travel to Paris. 1943: Year small-time agent Clyde Matthew Dessner coined the term "supermodel" in his book So You Want to Be a Model! 1974: Year Beverly Johnson became the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue. 4: Number of modeling agencies