At Essence's Black Women in Hollywood luncheon last week, Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o told the guests that she'd had a hard time with growing up and self-acceptance. "When I was a teenager my ...
As far as modeling careers go, Alek Wek’s has been, in a word, aspirational. The 38-year-old has walked the runway as Chanel’s haute couture bride, landed a Gilles Bensimon-shot cover of Elle, and had ...
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South-Sudanese supermodel and UN Goodwill Ambassador Alek Wek joined HuffPost Live to share her story of being a refugee on ...
Supermodel Alek Wek On The Business Of Fashion, Being The Face Of Refugees And Life After The Runway
This exclusive interview appears as the cover story in the Oct. / Dec. 2013 issue of Forbes Life Africa as "The Beauty That Tumbled From War". Her seemingly meteoric rise in the world of fashion and ...
As European leaders meet Tuesday to discuss a united response to the flood of refugees from the Syrian Civil War, AOL.com spoke with international supermodel Alek Wek, Goodwill Ambassador to the ...
Alek Wek fled to Britain with her family at 14 to escape the first civil war in the Sudan. By her early twenties, she was a supermodel and muse who had become the first African woman to grace the ...
Supermodel Alek Wek has come far, her journey from her native Sudan to the realm of high fashion rendering her a star. “I think the most important thing especially is that fashion should celebrate ...
Vogue Australia: There are personal layers in this collection designed for Weekend Max Mara. What is the meaning behind your artwork that appears on some of the pieces? Alek Wek: “I call them the ...
Editor’s Note: Charity Tooze is a spokeswoman for the U.N. Refugee Agency in Washington. Tooze is a member of the UNHCR team that traveled with supermodel and former refugee Alek Wek as she returned ...
Editor’s Note: Alek Wek is a Sudanese-born supermodel. She was forced to leave the country because of civil war and went to Britain as a child refugee. She continues to campaign to draw attention to ...
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