Shoshana Fitzgerald was born October 13th 1964 in New York and grew up mostly in San Francisco.  Her mother Margot Shap was born in Berlin in 1936 to Polish Jewish parents.  She passed away in 2010.  Her father Frederic Fitzgerald was born in 1925 in Pennsylvania but lived in New York and San Francisco.  He also passed in 2010.  Frederic was mixed race being both black and white and he was very light skinned.  If you go back in the records his parents are mixed race and back farther you can see then that his ancestors were both black slaves and white ancestors.  

 

Shoshana definitely gets a lot of her looks from her mother Margot - the  greenish grey bedroom eyes, that great nose and the general face shape.  She gets that added dose of looking exotic from her father. 

 

I remember meeting her a few times in 1985 or 1986  in San Francisco when she was dating Eric.  Her first big break was when Yves St. Laurent had a large show in San Francisco and Shoshana was cast in it.  That seemed to lead her to being such a successful model especially in Paris where she was a regular on the runways especially for certain designers like Christian Lacroix.  

Paris' Christian Lacroix couture, fall 1989

 

 

Paris'  Chanel spring 1990  (rtw)

 

 

Edited July 29, 20222 yr by tarsier41
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Paris' Christian Lacroix couture, fall 1991

 

Paris,  fall 1992

 

Paris' Christian Lacroix, spring 1993

 

Paris,  Lanvin  fall 1993

 

Paris'  Karl Lagerfeld spring 1990

 

Paris'  Kansai Yamamoto spring 1990

 

Paris'  Guy Laroche spring 1993

 

Lecoanet-Hemant couture, fall 1993

 

moschino f/w 1995 rtw

moschino s/s 1996 rtw

moschino f/w 1996 rtw

chanel f/w 1990 rtw

kansai yamamoto f/w 1990 rtw

Moschino (Milan) fall 1995

 

Joyce Paris no.23-Sept-Oct 1990  --  "Du grand art"
Soshana Fitzgerald,Cathy Gallagher,Sonia Schnetzer,Christie Turlington,Gisele Zelauy,Jill Haley,Gloria Burgess,Cindy Lewis,Brynja Sverris,Fatine Baryane,Anna Bayle,Gurmit Kaur,Laura Lenee,unknown models.
- my scans -

 

Sonia Rykiel  f/w 1991

 

Sonia Rykiel  f/w 1992