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Linda Morand was a very successful fashion model, cover-girl and haute couture mannequin during the 1960s and 1970s. Known as ‘Superchick” Morand was a modern fashion pioneer, a beacon of revolutionary style, avant-garde beauty trends and a major face in the Mod Sixties. She appeared in national ads, TV commercials and national catalogs.

She was discovered by Eileen Ford in 1966 and appeared in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Teen, Elle and many more international magazines. As was one of Vidal Sassoon’s house models, top stylist to the stars, Christophe created her signature style, a closely cropped asymmetric cut which hugged her head elegantly set atop her long slim neck.

Her favorite designer was Betsey Johnson, whose clothes she wore for many fashion layouts. With cut glass cheekbones, a wide-eyed gamine look and a show stopping smile, she was a favorite of Mademoiselle magazine editors and photographers George Barkentin, David McCabe and Gosta Petersen. At 5' 9.5 inches tall and 120 lbs ,Morand was naturally slender and did not have to diet to maintain her weight. Appearing on the fashion scene at the same time as Twiggy, she was noted for making up very unusual poses and participating in innovative futuristic fashion layouts including light shows, robots, super-heroes, computers and James Bond type spy take-offs.

In late 1966 Francois Lano of Paris Planning, the biggest fashion modeling agency in Europe, made a deal with Ford and Linda was contracted to spirit the Sixties to life on the runways of Paris and in the pages of the European fashion magazines, such as Elle, Marie Claire, Vogue, Vingt Ans and many Italian, Swiss and German fashion magazines.

Her modeling career took her on assignments throughout the fashion capitals of Europe, including Paris, Milan, Munich, Zurich and Barcelona. During these travels she kept diaries and scrapbooks, which she is gathering together as memoirs and historical observations. She runs the website miniMadMOD60s.com, very popular among fashion insiders.She has recently agreed to co-executive produce the upcoming 2-hour TV Special Tribute, "Supermodels Hall of Fame" to be produced and directed by 7 time Emmy Award Winner: Gary Smith. The hostess is former Ford Cover Girl, Susan Blakely.