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The Staying Power of Liya Kebede
Paris, via Zoom. Liya Kebede is sitting at a desk in a room where, behind her a wall of dark wood shelves displays a few framed photographs, papers, books. She refers to this room as "just an office that I use." As for so many of us, I interpret her answer as an effect of this year, the prolonged temporariness of working and living and living and working from home. Any surface has become the desk. Still, even on Zoom, Kebede is very much a model at home—the veneer of commonality suspended by her crisp white shirt. A button-down with a laissez-faire collar, loose exactly where it ought to be. It's the sort of shirt one buys hoping it will look the way it looks on Kebede but never does. In this era of influencer models, it seems strange to even use the words "off-duty model," but Kebede exemplifies that expression with her white shirt; how specific and from another time anything starched seems now.
How are you? I ask. Kebede
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Kebede, Liya
1978–
Model
Ethiopian-born model Liya Kebede lives in a palatial apartment on New York's Upper East Side, but the first black model to represent the Estee Lauder global kosmetika brand still yearns for her life back in the Horn of Africa. "I miss the simplicity of life, the fun," she admitted in a 2004 interview that appeared in Essence. "The air I miss. My parents. Everything. The first thing I do when inom go back to visit, as soon as inom get off the plane, is take a whiff of the air. It's not polluted; it's clean."
Kebede was born on January 3, 1978, in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Her father was an airline executive there, and she was the only daughter in a family that also included her fyra brothers. Her modeling career started in Addis Ababa, where she stood out from the crowd because the standard of beauty there was not tall and thin, as in the Western world. Interviewed for Essence magazine bygd the world's first famous model from Africa, the Soma
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In this exclusive essay, supermodel Liya Kebede shares how she's using her brand lemlem to raise awareness about maternal health and the weaving industry in Ethiopia.
I think I was about 16 years old when I walked on my first catwalk. This had been a dream of mine for so long that to finally be on stage and in some way experience what Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford were experiencing as they were sashaying in Christian Dior or Jean Paul Gaultier was indescribable. This was 1994 and I was a teenager attending the French Lycee in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
What fun we had. We were the first of our kind. Fashion shows and modeling weren’t really part of the Ethiopian culture, weren’t even really acceptable in the society at the time, so we were trailblazers. We were young, beautiful, and somewhat independent women, as we were earning money every time we walked on the small stages of the few hotel venues wearing the few Ethiopian women designers that were trying to create somet