Posted July 6, 200816 yr Gurmit Kaur (who is of Indian decent from Singapore and was a regular on the YSL, Lacroix and Chanel catwalks in the 90s) source Born in a small Malay village outside of Singapore where she studied sculpture ... Gurmit left home at the age of nineteen to escape an arranged marriage. She then found herself in Brussels where she studied jewelry and met Belgium's leading sculptor Olivier Strebelle. On a trip to Paris Gurmit was discovered by Yves St. Laurent, who then launched her career as a model. Gurmit then moved to Paris and walked the runways for the most distinguished couturiers, ranging from Karl Lagerfeld to Versace and Christian Lacroix. After modeling for 5 years, in the mid 1990's Gurmit put her Runway career on pause to complete her jewelry studies in Brussels. She has since exhibited her jewelry and sculpture around the globe from Italy to Paris, Belgium, Holland, and Tokyo. Gurmit's influences for her designs are nature (the jungle, the beach and the forest), fashion, fine art and even mathematics. Gurmit's results are a collection where each design is as individual as the flowers found in The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. source "Don't you have any jewellery in the collection ?" Those were Gurmit's first words to me when she came to model for me. I told her I didn't need any, because they (the models) were my favourite jewellery. Then I recall Gurmit launching out onto the catwalk. She was radiant and full of fire. On her third run, she took a hairbrush with her as an accessory, hooking it under her belt. Now I see that she already undulated like the jewellery she would create. Her work is in her image: supple, sensuous, voluptuous. Precious materials coiling around the body. Rings becoming arabesques. Necklaces entwining with pleasure. Every woman will find a piece she fancies.- Azzedine Alaïa November 1996Photo(w/nudity)
July 11, 200816 yr She's beautiful. and never knew she was from Singapore... considering there are not a lot of good models here..
September 26, 200816 yr Author Scans from Millange... http://www.bwgreyscale.com/discussion_boar...p?p=49674#49674
September 26, 200816 yr Scans from Millange...http://www.bwgreyscale.com/discussion_boar...p?p=49674#49674 hey Karrovoi <_< that's spelt "Melange" ...but hey who's counting? Please feel free to post away hon!
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